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Posted by mikeb on February 12, 2002 at 07:14:26:
In Reply to: darkroom equipment -need prices for selling posted by michelle on February 11, 2002 at 16:03:28:
: I have inherited some darkroom equipment and I have absolutely no idea what to do with it, to tip it or to flog it! Amongst the items are:
: 1x Meopta Meochrom 2 colour head plus manual
: 1x Meopta Axomat 4a enlarger plus manual
: 2x Photax lights (1 red 1 black)
: 1x JoboDrum 1525 rotation tank (system 1500)
: 1x Photax universal film tank
: 3x coloured trays ( red grey and white)
: 1x sealed bottle of universal developer
: 1x sealed bottle of acufix rapid fixer
: 1x sealed bottle of indicator stop bath
: 5x measuring jugs (differrrent sizes)
: tweezers, thermometer, pegs etc
: 2 boxes of unused slide mounts, lots of empty slide boxes, slide cutter and mounter plus other bits that I don't know.
: What I need to know is: what is this lot worth, and where should I flog it? My local camera shop offered me £30 for the lot, is this reasonable or are they ripping me off. I don't know! Maybe someone here wants it. Either way any help would be appreciated - sorry to waste so much time!! And thanks!
Hi,
My names Mike and I am an Ex Brit living in Florida and I am a dealer in all things photographic. You have inherited a pretty average
home darkroom set up. The problem with home darkroom equipment is that very few people these
days can be bothered to do thier own proccessing.
This leaves more darkroom equipment on the market
than there are buyers of it. Hence supply outstrips demand and prices are very low. The dealers job is to take everything in and piece it
out to several differant buyers. If you want to sell it as a "lot" most people don't want to pay
for anything else but the main pieces (enlarger color head ect and get all the little items thrown in. If yoy want to try selling one piece at a time and be left with the "junk" go ahead, it will take a long time and you will get a lot of "lookers" but few buyers. My advice would be let the dealer have it for cash in hand and save yourself the hassle. 30 quid sounds pretty fair to me as a dealer buying price.
Regards Mike
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