just to add - I've noticed that most of the parents around my neighborhood now buy and sell used toys very frequently, much more often than parents did when I was a kid. This is partly because the web is much more efficient than the newspaper, and it's cheaper to buy used. But the real benefit is that it gives us the ability to essentially rent the toy. There's little doubt that I'm going to end up with a plastic workbench, but my $50 is really more of a deposit - a promise to take good enough care of it to pass it on to the next 2 year old.