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Would you pay more than 25% of MSRP for a used cartridge?

Seems most seller want to price their "low-hour" used cartridges at 50-80% of MSRP. This seems ridiculous to me because there is no sure way to verify these "low-hour" claims. You need to have specialized microscopes and even then it's a just a guestimate if worn or not. 

 

Another point is even a cartridge with 1000+ hours can still sound very good. A worn stylus will mistrack only on certain passages of certain demanding records. So it is nothing obvious.

 

So why do all these folks price their used cartridges so high? Are folks actually paying these prices?

 

My max. would be 25% of MSRP for any "low-hour" claim. 

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The many negative posts here underline the belief that everyone's dishonest.

Sad.

I misbought an Anna four years ago.  It's too heavy for my very light parallel tracking arm.  I ran it less than 20 hours (yes really).   It just didn't gel.

So I marketed it at half retail.  Guess what?  No takers.

I fitted it on my second TT with a heavy Zeta arm and it runs great.  But I hardly ever listen to it.

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