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At 19:36 29 January 2006, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Stewart Kissel wrote: When discussing purchase costs of gliders....I have decided to compare them to SUV's. You can buy a perfectly fine used glider for $30-$40k....or you can go into six digits for something a little better at the margin. And try and sell a 10 year old Escalade for what you paid for it. In fact, this is also the desirable situation for gliders: buying a brand new glider for $30-$40K like a new SUV would cost, and selling the 10 year old glider for much less than you paid for it. A major reason old gliders hold their value is that new ones cost considerably more. I've bought 5 gliders and sold 4. When I was able to sell my used glider for what I paid for it (or more), I also had to pay far more for the new one. When I had to take a loss on my used one, it was because I could buy a new one at a very attractive price. My overall costs for trading up were much less the time I sold the used glider at a loss than the time I made a big profit on my used glider. The only people that benefit from high used prices are those people leaving the sport. People getting into the sport or trading up to a new glider do not benefit, and neither does the sport. -- Change 'netto' to 'net' to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA Eric, What you say makes sense right up to the last paragraph which ignores once of the most fundamental factors enabling us to buy gliders. If resale prices dropped steadily (like motor vehicles) and a pilot couldn't say to his spouse 'but if I put the money in a glider at least I'll get most or all of it back' then the whole glider market would collapse and the sport as we know it would become completely non viable. Said spouse eventually becomes, with luck, so hacked off with hearing the above argument with each new glider purchase that he or she will just shut the mind off and won't analyse it in the same depth that you have. Paradoxically it is marito-politically easier to get the OK to spend more money to buy a glider in a strong resale value market than it would be to be allowed to spend less money on the same glider in a weaker resale market. Wimmin! (Or insert some alternative PC US expletive to taste) The glider resale market is extremely sophisticated IMHO. John Galloway |
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