If you were selling your R5...

MarshallG wrote:

Chris Wolfgram wrote:

MarshallG wrote:

tsinvest wrote:

JustUs7 wrote:

MarshallG wrote:

Chris Wolfgram wrote:

j tokarz wrote:

Do NOT go the E-BAY route. You will surely regret it. For one reason or another.

Well, I almost always end up selling stuff the easiest, most fool proof way, which I'm sure is part of the reason I never get top dollar. That said, KEH is offering me a pretty fair amount, so I think I will end up doing it that way.

You should be able to easily beat the KEH price by several hundred dollars if you put an ad on Craigslist, if you leave in a reasonably populated area.

Craigslist these days requires a high tolerance for BS and a keen ability to sift through all the scams and bots to get to the occasional sincere inquiry. And the knowledge that they’re going to bring just the cash they want to spend and try to talk you down when they get there.

So then you have to be willing to walk away and try again. After a couple trips to a “neutral site” so scammers don’t know where you live, that gets old.

Craiglist is okay, but like I mentioned before I've had lots of luck right here on dpreview buy and sell forum. Maybe I was lucky but I got very nice curteous buyers and they paid through Paypal and covered the Paypal fee.

Personally, I’m terrified of mailing something worth thousands to someone I’ve never even met, but I know that people do it all the time.

That's where insurance comes in. Even selling to MPB or KEH, I always make sure to insure for the full amount !

How does it work and what is insured?
If you mail me a defective or broken camera, or a brick, am I insured?
If you mail me a perfectly good camera and I claim it’s broken, who is insured?

If you mail the camera and I don’t send payment, are you insured?

If you don’t mail the camera and I do send payment; am I insured?

It all seems dependent upon a lot of trust and I don’t know what’s covered and what isn’t. That’s why I prefer a face to face cash transaction in public.

Pretty sure insured just means it’ll get there.  And since you can take pictures when it’s sent, and FedEx takes a picture of intact packaging when it arrives, any dispute over condition is between you and the buyer.

But if it never shows up, then insurance kicks in based on the value you insure it for.