It's time to clean out some of the shed and the house. That includes a collection of vintage SLR cameras with various lenses and related accessories. Where is a good place to find buyers? In my experience Craigslist or the local pawn shop is not the best place. I can email a list of what is available.
- Thread starter WESnIL
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Check with these folks- https://www.bhphotovideo.com
Here's a direct link for a quote on your stuff- https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/trade-in.jsp&cm_sp=Banner-_-Promotions-_-CashInYourGear
BillL
Here's a direct link for a quote on your stuff- https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/trade-in.jsp&cm_sp=Banner-_-Promotions-_-CashInYourGear
BillL
MarkB_MI
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I guess there's still a market for that stuff, although I wonder who is buying it. True vintage cameras from the fifties and sixties I can understand, but who's buying stuff from the eighties and nineties, and why? There's a <a href=https://cameraexc.com/>camera store near me</a> that specializes in used equipment, and they've managed to stay in business for several years now even while almost every other camera store within fifty miles has closed. I haven't brought my equipment in for a quote, but I see they're selling cameras like my my Nikon FM and FM2 for $150 and $250, respectively.
DoubleO7
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- Crystal River, FL
They are likely doing 90% sales via online.
FrogCreekRanch
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This is my great grandpa on his AC. I think it is a Model "B" but other experts might be able to verify.
BarnyardEngineering
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- Rochester, NY
Having sold this kind of stuff in the past, you've got two choices:
1. If you are just looking to get rid of it, don't want to go to a lot of work photographing each individual piece, listing it, packing each thing, shipping it, etc., just dump it on whoever offers you any amount of money. Take whatever you can get and be done with it.
2. If you are looking to get top dollar, you will have to go through the effort of cleaning everything up, photographing, listing on a NATIONAL website like Ebay, packing and shipping. It's a lot of time and work, possibly for little reward.
Unless you live somewhere where vintage camera equipment is a big hobby, Craigslist is a waste of time. That only touches local people, who are looking for garage sale deals not to pay top dollar for collector items. They want to pick up those collector items cheap on Craigslist so they can flip them on another site for top dollar.
1. If you are just looking to get rid of it, don't want to go to a lot of work photographing each individual piece, listing it, packing each thing, shipping it, etc., just dump it on whoever offers you any amount of money. Take whatever you can get and be done with it.
2. If you are looking to get top dollar, you will have to go through the effort of cleaning everything up, photographing, listing on a NATIONAL website like Ebay, packing and shipping. It's a lot of time and work, possibly for little reward.
Unless you live somewhere where vintage camera equipment is a big hobby, Craigslist is a waste of time. That only touches local people, who are looking for garage sale deals not to pay top dollar for collector items. They want to pick up those collector items cheap on Craigslist so they can flip them on another site for top dollar.
Sony Metamax VCR Model SL-HF300 w/remote; Optima Rapid 125C Camera; Olympus OM PC 35 mm SLR Camera; Olympus OM PC w/35-105 Lens; Olympus 2X Converter; Nikon wide 28 mm Lens, Olympus mount; Olympus T20 Flash w/case; Winder for Olympus OM PC 35 mm SLR Camera; JCPenny 35 mm Lens, Olympus mount; Vivitar Thyristor 5200 Flash; Olympus 65-200 mm Zoom Lens; Olympus OM PC 35 mm SLR Camera w/50 mm Lens; Camera carrying cases (2); and Emerson CD/tape player. Some of the cameras, lenses, etc. have cases. I have pictures of everything.
MarkB_MI
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- Motown USA
> They are likely doing 90% sales via online.
I'm sure of that. I suspect a lot of their sales are to students who are taking film photography classes.
I'm sure of that. I suspect a lot of their sales are to students who are taking film photography classes.
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