The whole "Buy/Sell" gestalt is a bi-product of how damned expensive all this stuff is now, and how fast it becomes perceptually outdated.He didn't take it because of the tiny invisible mark?
In my experience, I'd now raise the price by 100$ for the lost time and energy. He wants it? 100$ extra.
So this is where we are: a camera not selling because of an invisible mark. The fact that it's a camera is unimportant. It's not about a camera anymore, but about a status.
So when you get that shiny new Leica M its value will already be falling like a stone in anticipation of the next $7K+ M camera. Everyone just keeps buying one full color Dodo after another.
The MM is the first digital camera that somewhat defies all that because it is so specialized, and those experienced in B&W work know that. It does super high ISOs with clean tonality and razor sharp acuity. B&W shooters do not need more than that, and no color rangefinder approaches it in either of those key performance attributes. It is a keeper in a transient digital world.
In the 35+ years of using Leica M film cameras I shot maybe 10 rolls of color film ... M equalled B&W to me, and now it does again. The biggest quandary I have now is whether to secure a second MM and get rid of all color M cameras.
-Marc