Why would someone want to buy an old empty ethereum address?

[God bless u]

might obviously be for airdrop purpose, any normal human wouldn't buy an address where private key already exposed, maybe they are interested in the history of transactions from that wallet and probably have found some airdrop that have such eligiblity therefore they are seeking such address.
because after all, even if you do sell your address, you will still see the private key, therefore its security risk for holding any asset, but if its for airdrop claiming they'd just claim and then dump the address immediately.

There is also another possibility that wallet buyer want to qualify for some new big project private sell..Their eligibility criteria including the wallet which has six months or older transaction..If empty wallet buyer know coding then he can use old wallets for scamming purpose also as he add bot for automatic transactions..By the way these all are just speculation and the buyer can tells the real reason of buying wallets.

[rodskee]

Yes, majority of them are collecting those old addresses and will try to sweep if there are remaining balances from tokens that they can dump on exchanges and also the potential airdrops that old addresses are eligible. It doesn't make sense right when they want to do it but they might find some jackpot tokens or airdrops that haven't been swept by the owner. But regarding this matter, instead of selling those old addresses, just keep it and never let someone know your private keys even they're buying it and most of them are already old and useless.

Ohh , so that is the same reason why there are other member tries to buy Old Ethereum Addresses I
thought this is about a requirements or something from airdrops but is this I think what related post and that extracting the
remaining balance specially now that we are near closing to halving that many can tell there are possible pumping from old
 projects and a chance to make money from those addresses.

Anything that we can think of like those that have been mentioned are possible. And another possibility is if they're going to use it for some transactions that are going to be involved with illegal transactions. Although the chance is low but what if that's what they want to do and if you're able to mention that address to some platforms like on an internet forum then the authorities will have leads and it's going to be you that have mentioned it elsewhere. Anyway, that's little chance and still, we go back to what we've said about sweeping balances of tokens, coins and airdrops.

Well whatever  their plan and intention is  still its quite unusual because they can easily create
their own wallet why look for old one that already exist and have been used from other transactions?anyway I am
not interested in selling one of mine even If i have not using them for long now because I want to preserve their
 sentimental value that once I have hunt bounty also 

[gabbie2010]

might obviously be for airdrop purpose, any normal human wouldn't buy an address where private key already exposed, maybe they are interested in the history of transactions from that wallet and probably have found some airdrop that have such eligiblity therefore they are seeking such address.
because after all, even if you do sell your address, you will still see the private key, therefore its security risk for holding any asset, but if its for airdrop claiming they'd just claim and then dump the address immediately.

There is also another possibility that wallet buyer want to qualify for some new big project private sell..Their eligibility criteria including the wallet which has six months or older transaction..If empty wallet buyer know coding then he can use old wallets for scamming purpose also as he add bot for automatic transactions..By the way these all are just speculation and the buyer can tells the real reason of buying wallets.

Exactly my thoughts here I think some of the old wallet buyers might have some ulterior motive behind the buying move probably another method of scam has been devised using old wallet, in tweeter several messages was sent to me that I had won huge amount of Ethereum, however to claim my coins I should send some gas transaction fee with Ethereum, I imagine a sender of the ETH couldn't pay for the transactions fee thus there tendency of scamming, I think another method of scamming with old wallet is being conceived of course with time I believe we shall see the true picture of what those old wallet buyers use or meant for either positive or negative.

[bittraffic]

I also saw that thread someone wants to buy an old ETH wallet. If they wanted to scam, they could just use the new wallet. I don't see any difference in what they are going to do. If it's for airdrop, then this user must have a piece of inside information about this airdrop and we are not aware of it.

Regardless of what they would do to the old wallet address of yours. How much would it take for you to sell your old wallet address?

[tvplus006]

Well whatever  their plan and intention is  still its quite unusual because they can easily create
their own wallet why look for old one that already exist and have been used from other transactions?..

The answer to your question is more than obvious, since the new wallet cannot claim retro airdrop, buyers are trying in this way to eligebet for airdrop in the future. And it is transactions on the Ethereum network, as a rule, that will act as one of the conditions for receiving airdrop, since sibyls avoid interactions on this network due to high commissions.

[Sophokles]

Perhaps the buyer is trying to accumulate such addresses for participants in any airdrop or giveaway that has that kind of activity. OP should explore the internet to figure out what that dude is trying to do, as OP can miss a chance to grab a bigger profit than selling the account. If you think that this will be a hassle for you, then you can consider thinking about selling that account if someone really wants to buy it. I have an Old ETH wallet and i am thinking about doing some research about what is happening in here.

[libert19]

The answer to your question is more than obvious, since the new wallet cannot claim retro airdrop, buyers are trying in this way to eligebet for airdrop in the future. And it is transactions on the Ethereum network, as a rule, that will act as one of the conditions for receiving airdrop, since sibyls avoid interactions on this network due to high commissions.

I also think it's so somewhere along the lines, but don't think it has to do with high fees of ethereum or that sybils don't have resources to make transactions, rather I feel that projects who gonna do retro airdrop will outright disqualify wallets which are new for reason that it might have been created for farming airdrop, so sybils are trying to avoid that and are looking for older wallets.