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The used car market today (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Why?greed or wha

[–] beastrabban@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I'm not an expert, and I'm just spitballing here, but I'd say it's some combo of the following:

cars last a lot longer, a 200k mile car still might have a couple years of solid life left
inflation makes 2000$ now 4000$
everyone is hard up for cash and needs to sell stuff at the most possible amount of money
boomers are famous for considering everything they touch to increase in value
a ton of used cars are off the market due to gov shenanigans
the typical car is much pricier now, so the typical used car is also pricier

anyone got any others?

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Boomers were my first thought too.

Particularly car enthusiasts often overvalue their stuff, and attack everything they won't benefit from (like EV's, or electrification).

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