Jager Posted February 13, 2017 Author Share #21 Posted February 13, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Why trade your lightly used camera ? The M10 is not significantly better Ah, Brian, well, I guess that's the question that begs... for each of us everywhere, for everything we contemplate buying. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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microview Posted February 16, 2017 Share #22 Posted February 16, 2017 Better to ask dealer to sell on your behalf and pay the 20% average commission. Trade-in will give you a lot less (offers often seem laughably small). Once the dealer sells, then you don't normally hear any more about it – although once a buyer returned a digital M because he found banding at an ISO I would never have attempted. Paid Leica's repair charge and then it quickly sold after that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted February 17, 2017 Share #23 Posted February 17, 2017 Better to ask dealer to sell on your behalf and pay the 20% average commission. Trade-in will give you a lot less (offers often seem laughably small).As already noted, often depends on individual circumstances and dealer relationships. My dealer has committed to more than 80% of high end market value for trade-in. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share #24 Posted February 23, 2017 Well, to close the circle on this... Deciding to go the eBay route, I bought "eBay for Dummies," by Marsha Collier. Decent book that did a great job of walking one through the process, but was rather light on strategy (when to use an auction vs a fixed price sale, when and how to use reserves, that sort of thing). The first prologue was that most of the photos on eBay suck. Even, ironically, stuff listed by photographers and camera shops. I knew that wasn't a huge deal, as I myself had bought stuff in the past in spite of mediocre pictures - but I reasoned that high quality images might help. So I invested a hundred bucks in a small, portable "studio" kit - lights, diffusion tent, and backdrops for table top/product photography. You could, of course, mock up something yourself that would be much less expensive, but would not be as convenient. The second prologue was that when I looked at all the M240's on eBay, most of them were fixed price and... weren't moving. That dismal prospect received some emphasis when I dipped my toe in the water by first listing my Multifunction Back at a fixed price... and, likewise, nothing but crickets. So, deciding to go for broke, I listed my M240 as a pure auction sale, no reserve, starting at 99 cents (!). Talk about scary! On my Multifunction Back listing I offered free shipping and a 14-day return policy. Given the risk(s) I was assuming with the M240 sale, I figured the future buyer - and at 99 cents I knew there would be a buyer - could take on a little of that themselves. They would have to pay shipping and there would be no return option. You can list an eBay sale for 3, 5, 7, or 10 days. I didn't have much to go on, but figured that potential buyers of expensive cameras are probably episodic... i.e. they aren't typically watching eBay or KEH or Craigslist as a matter of course, but only when they're actually interested in buying something. Usually they're not looking. So a longer duration would cast a broader net. I listed my camera for 10 days. The first few days were the worst... when the high bid was still relatively low. At a price point that you'd essentially be giving the camera away. That anxiety slowly waned as the days ticked by and the bid incremented higher. It ended up well. I would have loved to have received a few hundred dollars more. Just like I'm sure the buyer would have loved to have gotten it for a few hundred dollars less. I suppose that right there is as good a definition as any of what constitutes a fair deal. The winning bidder was local, so I was able to meet him to consummate the exchange. A young man acquiring his first Leica M. I think I was as excited for him as he was himself! Hopefully we can stay in touch and I can help introduce him to some of the Leica folks in the area. It went well... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surelythisnameisfree Posted March 5, 2017 Share #25 Posted March 5, 2017 Good result. I'm a big fan of selling on eBay too. Especially when they run their seller promotions of low/zero fees. Makes quite a difference in high value sales. Without that there isn't much difference to what you net from a commission sale through a dealer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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