Gear Focus for selling camera gear?

4 years 5 months ago #665736 by Steve Zahra
I'm tired of using Craigslist to try to sell my used gear.  I went to Google yesterday and did some searches and found 'Gear Focus'.  

Have you bought or sold anything on this site before?  Did it go as expected?  Better yet would you recommend the site? 


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4 years 5 months ago #665852 by Paris Gal
Interesting.  As long as this is better than CL, I'm very good with that.  But never heard of this site.  

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4 years 5 months ago #665856 by Photo Amigo
I tried selling a tripod on Craigslist 2 weeks ago and ended up pulling the ad.  Way to many @#$% trying to get me to ship it if they pay me via PayPal or some sending cashiers check.  Yeah right. 


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4 years 5 months ago #665875 by effron
In that instance I'd accept a paypal payment, though I'd withdraw my money prior to shipping the item sold.....Of course doing that ended my account with PP, and made me switch banks thanks to a scammer.

Why so serious?
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4 years 5 months ago #665950 by Photo Amigo

effron wrote: In that instance I'd accept a paypal payment, though I'd withdraw my money prior to shipping the item sold.....Of course doing that ended my account with PP, and made me switch banks thanks to a scammer.


It's so bad how things  have gotten 


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4 years 5 months ago #665976 by Kenya See
Not many listings on it.  Must be new.


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4 years 5 months ago #666114 by Chris Briggs
Did I miss something, what's the charge?  Is it free like CL?


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4 years 5 months ago #666291 by Overread
Looks like another Lensfinder


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4 years 5 months ago #666588 by Macon B
I only sell to those that I can meet in person.  Can't meet in person, you don't get my gear.  As simple as that.  


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4 years 5 months ago #666594 by Fess Walker
I really wish Craigslist would figure out a way to control the spam.  It's a large site, heck offering such a filtering or peace of mind might be a way they could charge for use of the site.  


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4 years 5 months ago #666613 by Steve Zahra
I see I'm not the only one frustrated.  You would expect they would do something about that.  


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4 years 5 months ago #666752 by J Hemingway
Your best bet is just to use a dummy email address that you only use for Craigslist listings.  


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3 years 11 months ago #683666 by Gear-Focus
Hi All. We started Gear Focus as we were all frustrated in the process and options for buying and selling camera gear as well. With the lowest seller fees anywhere of only 3.5% we wanted to create one place where all creatives could buy and sell camera gear, while saving time and money. We also monitor every listing and seller and also offer our Gear Focus Protection which you can check out here:  https://www.gearfocus.com/gear-focus-protection.html

If you ever have any questions, feel free to contact us anytime. We are glad to help answer any questions. 


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3 years 11 months ago #683727 by Rick Larin
Good, tired of CL crap.  Last month sold a lens on there and I was contacted by 7 scammers before I finally got someone legit.  I'm sure there are people falling for the CL tools.  Just book marked your this one for next time.  


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