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Sitting on equipment

Started 2 months ago | Questions thread
Coldpaw Contributing Member • Posts: 772
Re: Sitting on equipment

I was in a similar situation when my older Olympus E-M1 was essentially just sitting on the shelf collectong dust, but I've been keeping it due to the weather sealing (I own two or three weather sealed lenses), since my primary camera was not sealed. However I didn't use it often, just like you maybe once a year, but I more or less had to force myself taking it out.

Market prices for this particular camera was fairly low too, so selling it didn't seem like an option. I finally contacted MPB an requested a quote for buying my camera and was fairly surprised about the rather good offer. I accepted and sent the camera off the next day. Since then I have sold multiple items with MPB. What caused me to sell it was the conflict of having it just sitting around, not doing anything while still slowly losing the rather low value which was already left and last but not least also taking up space. I finally decided it was better getting ~200 bucks out of it and either put those away for savings on other equipment or just use it for other stuff. I can't imagine the X-H1 being completely worthless and just selling for 100 bucks or something, even if you can get just 200 out of it, it's still money you can spend elsewhere.

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