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Post by belgiumreporter on Aug 13, 2014 3:59:24 GMT -5
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truls
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Post by truls on Aug 13, 2014 6:57:47 GMT -5
Thank you for those links, the first site Catawiki had an english option, and accept international participants, it looks promising. The other two sites, may be I can contact the seller, hope she understand a few words english? www.lauritz.com/en/concept-and-profile/a10597/3/7/Auction house, also online bidding. Very serious, often old and interesting cameras. Expensive compared to other sites. We should have a permanent thread, listing auction sites and others, where collectors can find interesting stuff. Not everyone lives in crowded areas.
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Post by hansz on Aug 13, 2014 8:43:11 GMT -5
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Post by belgiumreporter on Aug 13, 2014 9:55:55 GMT -5
Thank you for those links, the first site Catawiki had an english option, and accept international participants, it looks promising. The other two sites, may be I can contact the seller, hope she understand a few words english? If the seller is Flemish (dutch speaking), you've got a fair chance that he or she is able to speak English, if it's someone from the Wallon (French speaking) or German part of Belgium, that chance is a whole lot less.
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Post by philbirch on Aug 13, 2014 16:06:11 GMT -5
I'll take a look at catawiki myself. Thanks
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Post by matty on Aug 14, 2014 4:52:19 GMT -5
I'm not sure if there is a real alternative to ebay at the moment. I wish there was but for selling in terms of "footfall" there isn't an alternative as big and footfall is the key to getting good prices. Also, you have a greater access to "trend" markets where price is less of a barrier to sales.
Selling through a local auction house won't give as a good a return, a specialist saleroom will give you a better price but you will have to pay a bigger commission. I do sometimes swap or sell with local collectors but in a rural area there aren't a great many of us and many of us peruse the same outlets and markets anyway. I do think ebay are sneaky about fees, charging a fee on your P+P cost as well as your selling cost is a bit much, especially as even the taxman allows me to write P+P off against tax. I would prefer to use a smaller market place that wasn't so obsessed with profit, for the same reason I use Firefox rather than Internet Explorer, some people have too much money already and the bigger the corporation the less time they have for the small customer.
I'm not a big seller on ebay, I am dabbling my toes in the water because as my collection grows I'm starting to get duplicate bits and pieces so I'm starting to keep the better examples and sell off the spares. This gives me a return on my collecting, for example I found a Praktica Nova PL 1 in a bag with an assortment of lenses, Zeiss Jena, Pentacon 135 and 50mm and a Helios 2/58, I've got good examples of these so the Nova has gone on the display shelf, the lenses to ebay and the profit will probably go on something else during my next shopping trip. The Alpa I sold got me a new cambelt on the car and a FED1 so I'm happy with my selling at the moment.
With ebay though I haven't had problems with buyers (yet, touch wood) but I am trying to be scrupiously honest with my descriptions and I am going overboard on the packing to try and avoid any problems.
As to getting more cameras one possible route is Freegle or Freecycle, these are local groups that contact by email allowing people to move on unwanted bits and pieces and allowing things to be reused and avoiding things going to landfill. I am a member of the two local groups and I've had a couple of bits and pieces so they are worth checking out.
Regards Matty
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Post by philbirch on Aug 14, 2014 17:03:21 GMT -5
I've obtained and got rid of many things on freecycle.
I looked at catawiki but theres not much on it. Prices are dismally low if you're selling stuff, but bargains are available. I find the site very confusing and disorderly.
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