Why isn't better quality used gear being made available?

When it comes to buying speakers I think people tend to feel comfort about what they're buying when it cost more. If I put a $7000 speaker in front of you and a $20,000 speaker in front of you you'll probably say the $20,000 speaker sounds better even if you haven't heard it.

Speaker manufacturers have product lines and in their descriptions it makes it sound like there might be something more to a more expensive speaker but they never really explained why it cost more money. More expensive drivers a more expensive cabinet more expensive crossovers… OK this is nice but it's not really that much more since materials cost are such a small portion of the overall price. It's simply that people feel more comfortable spending more money.

It's a marketing strategy that's all. Are you secure enough to purchase what may be a better speaker for substantially less? Same thing applies to amplifiers and pre-amplifiers. Hopefully the more money you spend the better the product is but is this really the case and if it is why don't they tell you why it's more expensive? They show a $200,000 speaker at a show which very very few people were buy obviously and somehow this makes it easier and more justifiable for you spend $50,000 on a speaker from their product line. It's a marketing strategy that's all and I'm not sure how good it's working.

@emergingsoul -- so, what does the above response have to do with your original question regarding the availability of used equipment and the responses to that question from others?  You make it difficult to take your posts seriously.

It's very very very very difficult to buy speakers.

It's not difficult, never mind 4 X very difficult. I just bought used Harbeth 40.3 XDs, private sale. Drove an hour. To be fair though, I have a truck, otherwise it would have been inconvenient to rent one, but hardly difficult.

I used to spend  more money get better speakers but that's not true. 

Huh?

To clarify, it's very very very difficult to decide which speakers to buy and then to decide which speaker within a manufacturers product line to buy.

As far as spending more money, you don't need to spend a lot of money to get great sound from a speaker. There are plenty of speakers in the $10,000 range that are just as good as a $35,000 speaker. That's one of the challenges that makes buying speakers so difficult.  There are so so many overpriced speakers and trying to avoid them is very very very difficult.

I hope that clarifies things

@emergingsoul 

in general, I disagree strongly. There aren't plenty of 10K speakers as good as 35K speakers. 35K speakers will be priced at 35K for good reasons. 

There may be exceptions, but in today's global economy, manufacturing costs are very similar/comparable. A speaker of the same size as a cheaper model that cost more will have better materials, more R&D to pay for, higher quality assembly and finish, etc. In short, there are no miracles, miracle finds.