The market for second-hand cameras continues to grow steadily and it’s not hard to understand why. The past few years have seen continued economic contraction and as photographers, our spending power is being squeezed as never before. Another factor is the quality of cameras and lenses released over the past decade: few genuinely ‘bad’ cameras have been released in the past few years. In this article, we are going to focus on how to get the best price for your camera and lens if you decide to sell it on. Read on for some useful tips for selling to reputable specialist dealers, which we strongly recommend, as well as some tips if you do decide to sell your gear to a private individual.
Be honest about the condition
Many specialist retailers will give you an initial free quote before you send in the gear for inspection. While it can be tempting to describe the condition as better than it actually is, in the hope that they’ll be too busy to check and will just cough up, the reality is that you’ll be fooling nobody. All equipment submitted for potential purchase or part exchange will be rigorously gone over by a specialist team, so check over what the definition of ‘as new’ actually means for that particular retailer.
‘When people log on to our site and request a quote, we always ask that they are as clear as possible in terms of condition,’
