I didn’t say it would never arise. Used cars selling for more than they paid for them right now mostly applies to used car resales because of a rapid increase in the market value for used cars. Cars sold new today will very rarely ever be sold tomorrow for the same amount of money or more tomorrow.
I don’t see any kind of argument here at all, there are individual local market anomalies all the time, that doesn’t change the overall way the market works. The vast majority of cars lose value as soon as they are sold because they are no longer new cars with any of the value of the benefits of a new car purchase. OTOH the dealers trade cars among themselves on that basis all the time because the cars remain new, with full warranty and service available, from a business with assets that is incentivized to make good on any problems, and the dealers didn’t pay full price for them at any point, they still have room for a profit at the regular retail price.
You didn’t say never, correct. You said 99.999% of the time. That only really gives you .0001% wiggle room here to recognize that is exactly what is happening now.
Yes, but your question was not why someone would pay more for a used car than a new car in normal market conditions, it was why someone would pay more for a used car than a new car now, in these market conditions.
I agree, so I don’t really know what it is that you were arguing.
There are 17 million new cars sold in this country every year. I’m bad at math so after playing with a calculator 99.99% might be a more realistic number for something described more generally, but I was considering the circumstance where a new car was purchased from a dealer at new market value and then sold privately for 10% more than you paid for it the next day, so I may not have been far off.
No it wasn’t. The OP didn’t specify any special market conditions either.
Ditto.
ETA: You were talking a 20% increase in sale price actually. I think 99.999% is right for those circumstances.