Originally posted by switters I used to have no trouble selling gear here. But I just posted a K-x and an FA50/1.4, and haven't had a nibble. I researched prices beforehand, and I think what I'm asking is fair for each item. $415 for the K-x + 18-55 kit, which is almost brand new (1500 clicks), and $300 for the FA50, which is also in mint condition. Prices include shipping and Paypal.
In the past I'd get several inquiries within a few days of posting. Not happening so far. Is it harder to sell gear here now, or are my prices just too high?
Other places would be CL, FB, and ofcourse ebay. It's the holiday season, people are buying stuff but not used one (hard to give used stuff as gifts)... budgets are tight, economy is bad... you get the idea, I'm selling some stuff too (not camera stuff) and it's rough, I know because I'm a shopper, but I'm riding it out since I don't need the money. By march or something I'll probably sell them haha.
Now as far as prices... currently a brand new K-X kit of color choice (black/white/red), same as yours is 490 shipped on amazon no tax for most... Now yours might be just as good as brand new, but brand new is still brand new, you know how you drive a new car out of the dealership and it's price will drop like a rock? Yet people still buy new cars (including me).
The other problem is that amazon (yeah this dude is giving you huge problem), sell the other k-x kit (the one with the 55-300mm lens) for 690 shipped. You gonna go "oh crap", yeah, they just slap on a 350 dollar lens on top of the kit for 200 bucks... not only that, the lens by many is a good lens, ain't that a bitch, if I wanted to get a k-x right now and have like 500 bucks, I'm so saving 200 more to get the kit with the 300m zoom lens.
The 50mm is also semi hard to sell, it's not rare, and there's alot of them (including the other version such as the M, A, ect..), the M is going for 100 used, IMO if I have 100 to drop, I would buy the FA version with extra cash, but that's me, everyone is budget minded and for them it might not be worth it...and I've been looking on ebay, at 100 the M version ain't moving at all (out of like 10 auction I think 2 got sold over 100, and I'm trying to find out who's the idiot when the BIN auction is right at 100), my local CL is doing it at 80 and I'm not even jumping on it.
I can't tell you the right price (no experience on the item) but if you need to sell it, lower it every day by like 5 bucks or something... someone is bound to be tempted. If you don't need money like me, just ride it out... (i'm selling a pair of studio monitor for 250 (new is 370 for the pair), i probably powered it on twice, still has box, manual ect..., it's been on CL for the whole week lol. But like I said, you just have to ride it out, this is a bad time for selling this kindda stuff.