I just bought a Fuji FinePix F30 off eBay for $250. In a weird twist, this camera debuted almost 3 years ago (and hasn’t been available in stores for more than 18 months). The original retail price was $399, and could have been bought for $249 in July 2006.
Doesn’t seem like anything special. It’s a point and shoot camera, 6.1MP, 3x optical zoom. No image stabilization, no HD video, and yet it’s a hard camera to get (although the F31fd is even harder). Even today, it is one of the best low light point and shoot cameras ever produced.
They don’t make them like they used to… three years ago.