[bombcar]

It's exactly in this "now vs later" that resellers and other brokers sit. If they know that X will sell for $Y "eventually" and how long that eventually is, they can work out how much they can pay for it now and still come out ahead.

Cars are very liquid and move quickly, so the now vs later price is close; weird things that nobody has heard of (but when they need it, they need it NOW) will have a much wider variance.