NOS equipment worth less than used? (was: fair price...)

Quothe chris, from writings of Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:38:43PM -0500: If it's "new" in this sense, then it's old and never used, which, to my way of thinking, means that it should be worth less. Having never been used, some capacitors may have gone bad and the equipment hasn't demonstrated that it's survived a burn-in period; the chances of failure are higher. Hence, should not a NOS (new old stock) system be worth less than a system that's been used, but not used enough to have mechanical and electro-mechanical, components worn, or wearing, out. Any thoughts on this? -- Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.