{"id":988,"date":"2009-10-23T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2009-10-23T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T22:20:00","slug":"notes-about-trade-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/notes-about-trade-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes about Trade-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated the Trade-in rates.  For those that bother to read it to the end, you will notice that the rates are temporarily up noticeably, nearly double.<\/p>\n<p>The value of second-hand figures on the market is about 40-60% of retail.  It&#8217;s tough to get above that since online stores will typically discount as much as 30%.  So, why haggle with a private individual when you can just pick what you want?<\/p>\n<p>The thing to remember is that I am working with the secondary market as well, and I need to make a profit on top of that.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the trade-ins can turn into a sweet deal.  However, they can also go terribly, terribly wrong.  Notably, I have bins upon bins of &#8220;scrap&#8221; models that are worthless except as base decoration.  If that. <\/p>\n<p>I have to be very picky with what I re-sell to clients.  They have to be as-new condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated the Trade-in rates. For those that bother to read it to the end, you will notice that the rates are temporarily up noticeably, nearly double. The value of second-hand figures on the market is about 40-60% of retail. It&#8217;s tough to get above that since online stores will typically discount as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}