Buying and Selling photo gear these days...it's a minefield.

Pre-Amazon / Ryanair and their business models, which involve changing prices several times a month to more closely match supply and demand...things were much more predictable. You knew how much something cost new ...and it was likely to stay that price for a while. This made the setting of a price to sell used more straightforward which I would argue overall benefitted both seller and buyer.

These days things are more of a gamble for both buyer and seller.

Potentially you could benefit from a very short duration 'special price' if buying..or miss out altogether and have to decide whether to stump up the full RRP or look at something else...or wait for a few more weeks or months and hope that the 'deal' comes round again.

Of course, every time that the price drops sharply on a new item it automatically affects the used value of that item...we end up with a business environment where prices are yo-yoing pretty much all the time.

The two lenses above being current lenses are good examples:

28-105 mentioned ...new today at £629...on 1st August Park Cameras sold it for £367! In past 30 days Amazon have sold it for £569 and my guess is that in about 3-4 weeks time it will be available at SRS for about £450-£475...new with 2 yr warranty.

50 F2.8 macro...£399 new today...except at Skears Photographic where it is £347. wait 3 weeks and it may well be on offer at SRS for about £300-£325.

Definitely not a good time in my opinion to be looking to sell used examples of currently available new lenses with warranties.

Some real characters...wouldn't look out of place in the Tardis.

One or two interesting next generation Covid masks as well !

regards

Karlo

Hadn't heard about this new AW version...better quality glass as well apparently but same size as existing lens. Whilst any upgrade is welcome, can't help feeling that scarce resources would have been better spent upgrading another lens or bringing out a completely new one. I've no real complaints with the existing 100 macro which i've used extensively.

According to photorumors.

60-250
200 f2.8
14 f2.8
100 f2.8 macro WR (very surprised by this one)

Stopped by Weston for a few hours early August returning from a trip to Cornwall.

Had to 'Do' the pier.

Quite like these...especially the last two with the darker sky.

regards

Karlo

Nicely done...my kind of shot (together with vivid imagination!)...not that i've ever tried 'stacking' as my very old PC would take days to do the processing.

My favourite 'interpretation' of NASA acronym...Never A Straight Answer

regards

Karlo

Nice shots...really like them.

Had some good nights out down there!

regards

Karlo

Thanks for the input Chris...always interesting to hear the retailers pov.

From a retaillers pov?...Hard to say without knowing their buying price...i'm assuming they are not selling at a loss.

Amazon have operated like this since they started and with Pentax changing the way they sell to their customers then maybe this is 'the future of UK Pentax retail'.

I'd rather buy from a specialist UK camera retailer than Amazon

From a customers pov?...Definitely YES if the lens you were waiting to drop in price comes up. I'd guess someone on this site may have purchased at that price.