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Where to Sell Underwater Photography Equipment

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10YearChange New Member • Posts: 1
Where to Sell Underwater Photography Equipment

I'm UK based and have been hunting around for shops, forums, facebook groups where I could sell some underwater photography equipment I have which I no longer use.

A lot of people used to advertise on the uwpmag website, but that seems to be no longer operating from what I can see. I've bought stuff from there in the past myself.

Ebay is not specialised enough I feel to get enough interested buyers and I'm not aware of any used camera resellers who will sell underwater photography gear.

It's decent quality kit so an enthusiast might be interested rather than someone who wants to take snaps down to 3m depth. So I need a suitable place to pass it on.

Any advice on where I market these items would be great. I'm preferably looking for a used dealer to sell on to, but would obviously sell privately if possible.

Just to be clear as a new subscriber I'm not trying to bypass any selling rules on the forum, just needing sound advice.

Thanks for any pointers.

Architeuthis Regular Member • Posts: 491
Re: Where to Sell Underwater Photography Equipment
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10YearChange wrote:

I'm UK based and have been hunting around for shops, forums, facebook groups where I could sell some underwater photography equipment I have which I no longer use.

A lot of people used to advertise on the uwpmag website, but that seems to be no longer operating from what I can see. I've bought stuff from there in the past myself.

Ebay is not specialised enough I feel to get enough interested buyers and I'm not aware of any used camera resellers who will sell underwater photography gear.

It's decent quality kit so an enthusiast might be interested rather than someone who wants to take snaps down to 3m depth. So I need a suitable place to pass it on.

Any advice on where I market these items would be great. I'm preferably looking for a used dealer to sell on to, but would obviously sell privately if possible.

Just to be clear as a new subscriber I'm not trying to bypass any selling rules on the forum, just needing sound advice.

Thanks for any pointers.

I have bought second hand equipment sucessfully here: https://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?/forum/6-classifieds/

Also scubaboard may be worth trying: https://scubaboard.com/community/forums/classifieds-photography.483/

Wolfgang

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Falcon04 Regular Member • Posts: 106
Re: Where to Sell Underwater Photography Equipment

Outside the buy/sell forum here, you might want to check out www.scubaboard.com. They also have a buy/sell forum, so it might be another avenue for you to pursue.

Keith

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kelpdiver Veteran Member • Posts: 5,564
Re: Where to Sell Underwater Photography Equipment

I think UPW lives on, but it's not all too healthy.

As noted, wetpixel and scubaboard seem to be the best bets these days, and WP definitely has a lot of readership in the EU.   Less sure about SB.    I've sold a number of items in each forum last year.

However, overall I'd say the resale market is not great.   Either it's the aftermath of covid, or people just preferring new, it seems like to move older stuff, you have to take a pretty serious depreciation hit.    My prior camera was a GH4 and I have a number of ports for the nauticam N85 and the lenses/gears for the common M43 gear.   But for the money I might be able to garner, I think it's more worthwhile just keeping.    I have even older Aquatic stuff (7D) in the same boat.

OTOH, the Nikonos Vs I bought a long while ago cheap might start appreciating as historical artifacts if I wait a few more decades?

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