You should know by now that I spend a lot on photography, and these stuffs cost a BOMB!!! As you might have all know these stuffs depreciate pretty fast. In no time, equipments worth thousands of $$$ will end up in the junkyard. Well, today I’ll share with you how I get my money back. Instead of leaving it in their boxes, here’s what I do: - I sold them.

Word of mouth can only travel that far, so I usually put my stuffs online @ FIZ, RS and FK. And through experience I did learn the “negotiation skill” required. Let me share that with you.

1. Canon S1is (Buy: RM1900 Sold:RM1000) - Big mistake. I even gave away extra accessories like Lens Hood, Circular Polarizers, and Rechargable Batteries which costs at least RM500 more. Desperate sell that time as it’s my first time…lose quite a lot.



2. Nomad Jukebox (Buy: RM800 Sold: RM50???) - One good example of what happens if you keep ur broken gears in the attic for 5 years. Yet I still get a good bargain rite? :P



3. Toshiba Satellite (Buy:~RM4000 Sold: RM100???) – Old stuff, used it for my studies in MMU. I still remember the specs: Celeron 600MHz, 128MB RAM, 6GB HDD… those were the days. After turning on for 5 years, the LCD rots, and the computer died of old age. Can’t believe it's still worth smth thanks to Alex who sold it for me through lelong. Best part is my dad’s brings its bag to work today.



4. DCM2006 (Buy: RM88 Sold: RM80.) – Do you know even magazines can get a good price at the 2nd hand market? Sold mine on lelong for 90% of the original tag. This month, I’ll be putting up my DCM2007 series for sale as well. Do check out this page for updates.



5. Lowepro Orion Trekker II (Buy:~RM250 Sold: RM150) - I bought it from Hong Kong (CNY’06). After 15 months of extensive usage, I managed to sell it to a gentleman in East Malaysia (Jun’07). The buyer transfer the money to my account without looking at the stuff. He even paid me for the postage. Cool~!



6. Sigma 70-300 APO Macro (Buy: RM720 Sold: RM550) – Who says GIANT Hyper market sells only groceries? I sold this thing right at the car park of GIANT! I was asking for RM650, but that Samaritan managed to bargain it down to RM550 after testing the unit up. Lesson learnt: survey before you buy.



7. Nikon SB-600 (Buy: RM800 Sold: RM600) – This one is interesting. Adib invited me out to have a look with a few of his macho friends. At the beginning I was a bit scared, but eventually he bought it from me with RM600 in cold hard cash. $$$ BLINK $$$



8. Nikon D70s (Buy: RM4200 Sold: RM1850) –You might think I’m stupid selling it off at such a cheap price. But think again, after 34k exposures each exposure costs me only 7 cents! And if I continue keeping it, it’ll mostly stay in the dry box and collect dust. Thanks to Mayki who got it off my shoulders.

At first I intend to sell items 7 and 8 for RM 2,500. Eventually I get back RM2450 selling it separately thanks to my bad negotiating skill. Finally I close the deal by reducing the price by RM50 if they pay up by the end of the week. BAM, they finally paid me in full this morning. So, now you have it. These are all the stuffs that I’ve been putting up on the web and all managed to sell pretty well. So what else will you be expecting from me in the near future?

1. A retired brand less HIFI system with decent speakers (BUY:RM300 RSP: RM50)


2. My CPU: Asus T2 Casing, PIV, RAM: 1G, HDD: 120G, 16x DVD Burner (BUY: RM2500 RSP: RM888.88)


3. Samsung 17” LCD (Rechipped): (BUY: RM1000 RSP: RM 300)


4. DCM2007 (BUY: RM120 RSP: RM120)

More stuffs to come, with pictures attached. If you happen to be interested in the above stuffs do give me a ring at MAXIS-453 2074.

Labels: Photography, Tech