Please tell me where is it better to sell a professional camera with lenses?

[Captain]

Talk photography.

 

[And]

I'm just going through the process of selling some gear on FB marketplace, there are a few dedicated camera/gear sales groups.

 

[adrichardson81]

Had a quick look around the bay and the d3 is going for £300-400,depending on condition. For a 12 year old camera, you might be better with Nikon specialist. There's one that advertises in Amateur Photographer, from memory.

 

[Greebo]

In my experience, still significantly better. You take about a 13% hit on the final sale price. When I sold my a7rii, it was still much better than WEX offered. I had similar experiences selling lenses vs what LCE offered.

The easy way to check is search completed used listing for the item you're selling and knock off 13%. If Wex offers less than that, stick it on the Bay.

Its best to shop around,. When I was changing my entire system from olympus to Sony I got prices from the following

MPB
Wex
LCE
Park Cameras
Wilksinons
Clifton Cameras
Av of last ones sold on Ebay.

I made a spread sheet.

All told there was about £7-8k of stuff. Yes Ebay, assuming £1 selling fees but fees on paypal, did work out slightly higher overall but I didnt want the hassle of selling 10 things on there and would have to take photos, writre descriptions.

I did get some offers which were higher than what they were selling for on ebay.

What really surprised my was the variations in prices. I think it was the vertical grip that some shops offered only £90 for it when the best offer was £220 from one of them

Ended up where every shop got 2 or 3 items, I even had condition upgraded on a couple of things I sold and the shop paid me for them,

Overall doing it this was I got about a £1000 more than if I had sold the whole lot to one place.

 

[adrichardson81]

The other advantage of not going through ebay is you don't have to deal with the buyer directly, I suppose.

 

[Captain]

Wex take the **** with their offers.

I had quotes from Wex and MPB when selling my Fuji xt3 and the Wex offer came in at £300 under what MPB offered.

 

[Greebo]

Wex take the **** with their offers.

I had quotes from Wex and MPB when selling my Fuji xt3 and the Wex offer came in at £300 under what MPB offered.

It will vary and depend how many they already have in stock. MPB is the lowest price of anybody I have been offered for my Sony A7rIV - £1630 but they currently have 13 for sale so clearly think they have enough stock.

Wilkinsons so far is the best at £2,000 so £370 more than MPB. Even Wex offered me £1780, so £150 more the MBP

When i swapped my stuff last time, Wex came out tops more than any other place (expect ebay of course)

I cant find my updated spreadsheet with my MPB quotes but back in 2018 this was the result

Ebay After Fees Park Wex MPB Lce Jessop
Olympus 12-40 pro Excellent 425 409.675 300 330 260 £332.72
Olympus 40-150 pro Excellent 700 676.7 520 590 500 £498.23
Olympus 1.4TC Mint 100 94.1 0 0 0 80 £154.54
Olympus 75mm f1.8 BNIB never used 450 433.95 330 360 300 £322.39
Olympus 30mm macro BNIB never used 180 171.78 110 140 90 £108.68
Olympus 300mm f4 Mint, only 2 months old 1500 1453.5 1100 1350 1000 £1,092
Olympus 45mm f1.2 Mint only 2 months old 750 725.25 550 580 500 £0.00
Panasonic 25mm f1.4 Excellent 275 264.025 200 130 170 £172.45
Em1 Mark II Excellent+, No marks 1000 968 780 880 700 £779.76
Vertical grip Excellent 140 132.94 100 0 100 £127.40
Laowa 7.5mm Mint, barely used 400 385.4 0 0 150 £0.00
Totals 5920 5715.32 3990 4360 0 3850 3588.17
Total using best price on individual 5430.06 385.4 200 4230 0 £614.66

Jessops got 3 items,
Wex got 7 items
Park got 1 item
Ebay got 1 item

Overall i ended up with £285 less than selling on Ebay with no hassles. So around 5% lost.

Some things like the TC were £60 more from Jessops than what they were going for second hand on ebay!

I may have ended up selling some to MPB once I got their prices but nobody got everything thats for sure. Wex was doing the best before MPB. LCE was awful and not a single item gto sent to them. They were £350 behind Wex on the 300mm F4

So just contact them all and go with whoever gives you the best price.

 

[Captain]

Didn't actually think about prices offered depending on amount of stock they had

I'll give you £1630 for your A7R4

 

[Greebo]

Didn't actually think about prices offered depending on amount of stock they had

I'll give you £1630 for your A7R4

Pfft, when I have an offer of £2k on the table?????

Yeah its easy to get a **** quote and then say they offer **** prices and never use them again when it just might be they have loads on the shelf to sell already.

I think the fact that with 12 items last time LCE didnt come out top for a single item probably means they are the ones who in general offer terrible prices.

Even Wex was out by £70, 35% on the Pana 25mm despite been top bidder on most items. I guess they must have had too many of them already.

Does gaul me though that MPB are selling used A7Riv for £2500 each but are only giving £1630 for them. Clearly they do have way too many and they arent selling.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I found The Strand branch of LCE to be brutally honest about what they could offer you for your bodies and lenses. If they’ve got 3 of the item you’re looking to sell sitting on a shelf unsold, you’re not going to get a great offer from them.

“You could get nearly double for your X if you sold it on eBay/privately than I can offer you today.” was one piece of advice I had from them.

 

[Captain]

Pfft, when I have an offer of £2k on the table?????

Yeah its easy to get a **** quote and then say they offer **** prices and never use them again when it just might be they have loads on the shelf to sell already.

I think the fact that with 12 items last time LCE didnt come out top for a single item probably means they are the ones who in general offer terrible prices.

Even Wex was out by £70, 35% on the Pana 25mm despite been top bidder on most items. I guess they must have had too many of them already.

Does gaul me though that MPB are selling used A7Riv for £2500 each but are only giving £1630 for them. Clearly they do have way too many and they arent selling.

You can get the A7R4 for £2100 brand new now through E-infin so £1630 isn't too bad used

 

[Greebo]

You can get the A7R4 for £2100 brand new now through E-infin so £1630 isn't too bad used

Probably why MPB are struggling selling their 13 bodies at £2500 each. With the recent cashback deal I saw none grey import ones fro £2500 new.

 

[And]

I wonder how many of those used a7R4s were originally grey imports?

LCE offered a derisory amount for my Canon 600II. Even the ebay 'let's do a deal' offers were at least a grand better.

 

[Kamakazie!]

I just used MBP for 3 Olympus lenses.
I didn't actually bother looking at other places after originally seeing recommendations in this thread for them. It was a super easy process all round.
All in probably about 20% less than absolute maximum ebay prices, but I seem to do awfully on sales there so I expected to come out about evens.

 

[andyinv]

Try ffordes.com - superb team there, really helpful.

 

[Greebo]

In my experience, still significantly better. You take about a 13% hit on the final sale price. When I sold my a7rii, it was still much better than WEX offered. I had similar experiences selling lenses vs what LCE offered.

The easy way to check is search completed used listing for the item you're selling and knock off 13%. If Wex offers less than that, stick it on the Bay.

When I sold my Olympus EM1 plus about 12 lenses I got prices from LCE, Wex, MPB and Park and used ebay completed items and took an average of ones sold over the last few months and made a spreadsheet.

Surprising some things I was offered more from the shops than the price selling on ebay even before you took fees and paypal off them.

Overall from selling £6,500 of gear, I only lost out by about £300 from selling them on Ebay. And hassle free.

The prices offered by the shops varied a lot. Some items there was £200-£300 difference between what they offered so always shop around.

Ended up selling 2 or 3 items to each shop.

 

[adrichardson81]

When I sold my Olympus EM1 plus about 12 lenses I got prices from LCE, Wex, MPB and Park and used ebay completed items and took an average of ones sold over the last few months and made a spreadsheet.

Surprising some things I was offered more from the shops than the price selling on ebay even before you took fees and paypal off them.

Overall from selling £6,500 of gear, I only lost out by about £300 from selling them on Ebay. And hassle free.

The prices offered by the shops varied a lot. Some items there was £200-£300 difference between what they offered so always shop around.

Ended up selling 2 or 3 items to each shop.

There's definitely something weird going on with ebay prices right now - I've got a Batis 40mm on the way from e-infinity for less than used ones are selling for.

I'll be selling a 50/1.8, but I doubt there'll be much in it price wise for something that cheap.

 

[footieboyz]

Ebay but pay fees facebook market place can work. Or local camera clubs but that more difficult this time