Chris,
I suppose everyone's milage will vary, but that wasn't my experience with
KEH when I sold some gear to them a few years ago. They agreed with most of
the Grades I gave to my gear, they down-graded one item but upgraded three
of my items. Did they give me as much as I could have gotten on Eb*y?
Probably not, but it was a lot less hassle.
Charlie
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What they'll do is tell you that ANYTHING you send them is in Bargain
> condition, no matter if it is new in the box, so they can offer you 1/8 its
> selling price, or less. Then if it is in good shape, they'll mark it as EX
> or EX+ or whatever, and charge a fortune. DO NOT send them anything, the
> will not price it honestly to you. Years ago I tried to sell them a near
> perfect Mamiya C330 that they'd have sold for $600 back then (when old film
> cameras were worth more than they are now). They tried to give me $50 for
> it. I called them and the guy on the phone got snotty and claimed it was
> all
> beat to hell. I told him to fuck himself and demanded he send it back. I
> reminded him that I had photographed it showing the serial so I BETTER GET
> MINE BACK. I did. I sold it locally for $550.
>
>
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> On 1/18/09 10:32 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > You might check KEH. There are a few Arca Swiss bodies here
> > <
> http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=&item=0&ActivateTOC2=&BC
> > =LF&BCC=7&ID=59&CC=2&CCC=1&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=>
> > I didn't check for anything else that you have but it might be there.
> > You can also check B&H, Adorama and perhaps a few other large stores
> > with significant used sales departments.
> >
> > I've never sold anything to KEH but my guess it that you'll probably be
> > offered about 1/2 of their selling price and condition can be extremely
> > important to price. Selling it on your own elsewhere should get you
> > somewhere in between.
> >
> > Yes, scanning film gets old. I haven't done it in a long time but need
> > to get back to it. There's a huge backlog.
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> > Andrew Dacey wrote:
> >> Hey OMers,
> >>
> >> Been in lurk mode for far too long on the list, although I have poked
> >> my head up a couple of times recently.
> >>
> >> As I mentioned in another recent post, I'm really starting to hear
> >> digital's siren call. I still really love film but right now I lack
> >> the facilities to do my own developing and printing and I also just
> >> don't have the time. This means that I'm just not shooting much at
> >> all lately and when I do I'm finding the task of scanning and editing
> >> to share my work to be extremely tedious. This means that lately I
> >> find that I'm just resenting photo and knowing how much work is in
> >> front of me is a huge deterrent to getting me out shooting more. A
> >> good example is that I was involved in a photo shoot back on Labour
> >> Day weekend and I still haven't finished going through the shots from
> >> that day, and a great many of them aren't even scanned yet. Let alone
> >> the backlog of images that have never been scanned or added to my
> >> website.
> >>
> >> This is really leading me to look toward digital as a way of solving
> >> some of these problems. I realise that editing on the computer isn't
> >> going to go away completely but I'm hoping that it's going to be more
> >> adjusting colour and sharpening rather than ages removing dust spots.
> >> The other big lure has been that full-frame bodies are starting to
> >> become a little more prevalent and the prices have dropped quite a
> >> bit, although still expensive.
> >>
> >> So with that in mind, I'm thinking that I should start unloading some
> >> of my current gear and see if that couldn't go toward financing a
> >> DSLR body. But, I've been out of my gear acquiring for a long time
> >> and have no idea about the current state of prices.
> >>
> >> The big item that I'm thinking of unloading first is my Arca-Swiss
> >> 4x5 kit, I bought it when I had disposable income hoping to get into
> >> LF and it just hasn't seen much use ever. I've had it for several
> >> years and it's time to accept the fact that I'm not using it and
> >> could see the money it's worth better put to something I will use.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering what the prices are like for this stuff these days,
> >> ebay isn't much help because Arca gear doesn't seem to come up very
> >> often. Here's what I have:
> >>
> >> Arca-Swiss F monorail with fresnel and binocular viewer
> >> Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm 4.5 in Copal 0 shutter plus matched centre
> >> filter
> >> Rodenstock Apo-Sironar-S 210mm 5.6 in Copal 1 shutter
> >> Toyo 6x9 120 film back
> >> 8 4x5 film holders
> >>
> >> This is more of a "what's this stuff worth" post rather than a "for
> >> sale" post. I haven't had the time to put together a for sale listing
> >> and post pics or anything like that so it is meant to just get a
> >> sense of what I should list this stuff for.
> >>
> >> That said, if anyone wants a killer 4x5 kit, you know how to reach
> >> me :-)
>
>
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