Watching Meridian kit here and elsewhere, the used prices achieved seem to be in the order of 25-33% of original retail with last generation processors at the lower end and DSPs at the higher end. The trade-in deal does seem to be pitched at about the Goldilocks point.

To me, a used HD621 might be worth ~£300 because it is just a very high quality HDMI switch with comms integration*. If dealers were to knock out the trade-ins for a bit more than that it might save a few perfectly good devices ending up as rubbish and recoup some of that trade-in value (which is presumably being underwritten to some extent by Meridian).


* I last watched a Bluray disk around three years ago, others may have greater need for the HD621's USP functionality.

In the spirit of Spinaltap, I would like to confirm that I am not involved in the corrupt theft of a global sport.