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Mercedes-Benz 250
13
cars monitored on market · 15 listings (dealer groups syndicate)
$19,900
median ask · used (15 listings)
106,721 km
median odometer · used
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days to sell: 3 aged sales, needs 4
15 used · 0 new · 0 demo. Asks mix drive-away and excluding-government-charges prices as advertised; the two differ by thousands and are not converted. Value one of these →
as at 10 Sept 12:25 UTCToday’s range · used asks, one price per car
asks mix drive-away and excluding-government-charges as advertised · pointing at a used car on the cloud below marks where it sits here
shaded = middle half ($13,998 to $25,900) · one price per car, n = 13
Price against odometer · n = 12 · all years
used and demo stock only. New cars sit at zero kilometres on recommended retail and would wash the cloud out (0 excluded)
Comparables · the cars behind the cloud
showing the 12 lowest-odometer of 12 cars · drag across the cloud to pick an odometer window
| Year | Condition | Odometer | Ask | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | used | 51,706 km | $45,900 | open |
| 2012 | used | 61,046 km | $19,900 | open |
| 2013 | used | 90,754 km | $24,400 | open |
| 2013 | used | 90,754 km | $24,400 | open |
| 2013 | used | 102,669 km | $25,900 | open |
| 2011 | used | 110,773 km | $12,999 | open |
| 2017 | used | 143,076 km | $25,900 | open |
| 2014 | used | 156,825 km | $18,995 | open |
| 2010 | used | 169,000 km | $11,999 | open |
| 2010 | used | 184,000 km | $9,998 | open |
| 2015 | used | 245,000 km | $13,998 | open |
| 2015 | used | 245,000 km | $13,998 | open |
one row per physical car, the same cars the cloud plots. The brush filters this table only; the chart, its fit and its rung always use every car.
Evidence rung 2 of 2
The book · where dealers price, not where cars sell
13 used asks on the board, under the 30 it takes to draw a distribution. The count is the content.
The vintage ladder · used asks by model year
a cross-section of today, not a price history: each row is where this year’s used cars are asked right now, one price per car, on one shared axis. Reading a row marks its median on the range above
Aged stock · 180 days on the shelf
split by condition because they age differently: aged new and demo stock is a factory pipeline story, aged used is the “nobody is buying this one” story, and blending them tells neither
used: 7 dated listings. Under 30, so stated rather than drawn.
Time and sales · latest 7 events on this model
repricings, confirmed exits and relists. First-seen events are excluded, they are mostly our own coverage growing
A pre-registered test lives here: whether photo and description changes precede price cuts. It publishes, whichever way it falls, once the corpus holds 2,000 observed cuts.
The last fortnight · day by day
13 of 14 days recorded to 10 Sept, UTC; 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in. The same daily series the weekly report is built from.
1 Mercedes-Benz 250s proved out over the fortnight
Cars whose exit the seller's own page proved, by UTC day, 28 Aug to 10 Sept · cars · n = 13 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in
Source: daily_model_rollup, one row per recorded day.
3 price cuts over the fortnight
Price-cut events on this model's listings, by UTC day, 28 Aug to 10 Sept · cars · n = 13 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in
Source: daily_model_rollup, one row per recorded day.
Median used ask held at $19,900 on the latest day
Median used ask as advertised, one price per car, by UTC day, 28 Aug to 10 Sept; drive-away and excluding-charges prices mixed as advertised · dollars · n = 13 · as at 10 Sept 2026, 08:50 pm AWST · 3 Sept recorded nothing and is absent, never filled in
Source: daily_model_rollup, one row per recorded day.
Confirmed sales · 3 cars
Cars, not advertisements, and counted only once no listing of the car remains live anywhere we watch. 3 carry the seller's own listing date, which is what the median below is measured over.
| Year | Ask at delisting | Days advertised | Discounted first |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $17,990 | 32 | no |
| 2014 | $16,888 | 35 | yes |
| 2012 | $19,900 | 427 | no |
Aged by the seller’s own listing date, discount from the seller’s own tally. Our observation window is a fraction of a listing’s life, and measuring from it would flatter every number here.