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Second-hand Fujifilm shortage on ebay & prices going up?

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
GMacF Contributing Member • Posts: 999
Re: Second-hand Fujifilm shortage on ebay & prices going up?

Yep I definitely noticed the same thing lately.
I decided to try an X-E1 a couple of months ago and was surprised to see them sitting around the £200 mark - this was on most of the used gear sites here in the UK - including eBay.
I ended up getting one for £165 but I had to really do my homework and pretty much had alerts set up on all the sites that I could.

During my purchasing process I watched and read quite a few reviews and a lot of the reviewers were saying, just 12-18 months ago, how little they picked up their X-E1 (and X-E2 for that matter) for - some were picking up X-E2’s for <£100! You’d be lucky to get one for less than £300 now.

The same thing is happening with lenses. Although, I noticed used Fuji lenses tend to never really change in price all that much (I admittedly say this 3 years experience of shooting with Fuji).
I buy and sell a lot of lenses, it’s much cheaper and simpler than renting and I’d say, on the whole, I’ve pretty much broken even on all my deals. However I have occasionally made a decent profit. Not that long ago, I sold a XF 23mm f1.4 and picked up both a Tokina 23mm f1.4 AND a XF 27mm f2.8 with the money - I only bought the Fuji 23mm for £300 towards the end of 2021.

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Fujifilm X-E3 Fujifilm X-H2S Fujifilm X-T5 Fujifilm XF 27mm F2.8 Fujifilm XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS +9 more
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