Great feedback everyone. Thanks for your excellent insights and information. Very interesting and rather unprecedented. In all of my years in this great hobby of high end audio (40), I don't recall seeing source components sold at higher prices than at their original offerings. That speaks volumes about the quality and mystique of the OPPO Digital line. I love riaa_award_collectors comment that you don't buy 10-15 year old CD players. Absolutely correct yet Ianrmark sold two 10 year old units in a day !!! It floors me to learn that riaa sold 12-15 UDP-205s at that price range. Absolutely amazing. I didn't realize the 105 can make SACD copies. I do use the 103 to play my small collection of SACDs and it sounds terrific plus I also have a Marantz UD5007. Both great sources for the $$$. I use both so that one doesn't wear out sooner than the other. That's the fun of this business. It's good to know that sonicjoy's BDP-83 has lasted 10 years. Excellent info.
Resale prices for Oppo Digital Universal Players
May I ask the forum to explain to me the disparity in the asking and bid prices for various preowned and some new Oppo Digital Universal Players for sale on Audiogon and on another well known resale site? I'm seeing prices all over the scale. I know they're no longer manufactured but the asking and bid prices don't seem to make any sense. For example, there's a BDP-93 manufactured in 2011 with an asking price is $250.00, another one built in 2010 at $310.00 and another at $150.00 similar vintage. There's a BDP-95 Blu-ray Universal Player for sale at $643.00. There's a UDP-205 for $3,000.00 manufactured in 2017. There's a BDP-83SE that's 10 years old with an asking price of $433.00. There are three new UDP-205s with asking prices from $3,699.00, $4,999.00 & $5,295.00 !! The UDP-205s new were $1,299.00 when they became available. There's a new UDP-203 built in 2016 at $820.00......new they were $549.00. I own a BDP-103 from 2014 purchased brand new at $500.00 and it's still in excellent condition. What is that worth should I decide to sell it here may I ask?