As someone who has been in the hobby for a long time but only in the past year started taking part in racing, i too was surprised how little people value what they have when it comes to resale.
I think its the mentality that enthusiastic racers have, that if its not the latest and greatest then its not worth having. For example a friend and fellow racer sold me his 10 pack old tlr eight 4.0 roller with a spektrum 34kg servo for less that what the servo sells for new.
As for the b64 sales, i suspect that its a repercussion of this coinciding with the release of the tekno eb410, there was a lot of hype about the eb410 and it seems to have worked, my local store has had 3 orders of eb410s and they are all sold before the land at the shop, which is impressive since there is currently no 10th scale buggy racing over here at all.
Sidenote, don't let the b64 sale price taint your opinion on the chassis, i love mine.
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