Selling gear on eBay, alerting LFPF?

[Protar18]

I have been selling some of my personal LF gear (and photo books) on eBay for a little while. I taught LF photography for 30 years, so accumulated a lot, 4x5 to 12x20. Having retired, I'm cutting back to a 4x5 field camera kit. I have mostly lurked here now and then, search for tech info etc. A couple eBay buyers have suggested I place alerts on this and other forums. I know the Classified Forum doesn't allow links to eBay, but can I place alerts there or elsewhere? In the lens/darkroom/camera related forums?

The Hypergon went last month, my 14 in Goerz Trigor is up now, plus film holders, 8x10 back and spare ground glass, etc. Yes, I do have a number of f/18 Protars to sell. I have been on eBay for years auctioning classical and jazz LPs, and prefer auctions to set price sales. This sort of stuff should be of interest to many here, but don't want to flaunt the rules.

What is the the best way to do this?

[Kirk Gittings]

Sorry but no. If you want to sell it here post it, but don't refer to your sales elsewhere.

[Alan Gales]

Trust me. The Large Format Forum members who buy items off of ebay know about your Blue Dot Trigor. I'm watching it myself out of curiosity. We unknowingly bid against each other all the time. Good luck with your sales! :)

[Wayne]

I'm watching it too, because my Trigor might be next on the auction block. I thinks yours is easily worth 3 or 4 grand. :D

[Wayne]

4 minutes. I'm getting goose bumps and putting on the bulletproof vest. Who will outsnipe the rest?

[Wayne]

Cheapskates. I'm keepin mine now. :D Someone got a smokin' deal!

[goamules]

Ebay is a very erratic market. You can get 200% variation on either side of the average sale price. Wait...would negative 200% be zero? Anyway, prices are all over the map at auctions.

[Steven Tribe]

With due respect to the quality of the items he has on E**y and his long term association with LF, I still feel that the OP should have been deleted by the powers that be. Reference to auctions elsewhere, in which the poster has a real connection, is not allowed anywhere on the site in any thread.

So the answer to the OP's question:

"What is the the best way to do this?"

is that there is no way you can do this.

Even though you seem to have got away with it this time!

[IanG]

Ebay's losing it's way with regards to film equipment, cameras and darkroom stuff.

These forums (here APUG etc) are now a far better market place for buying & selling equipment.

Post heree first ask what you want, drop if it doesn't sell.

Ian

[onnect17]

In more than one occasion I came across some good deals and other unique equipment and materials for sale that definitely some members in the forum could take advantage of. Not being able to give the heads-up is just plain and simple stupid.

Here were are posting about “not to post”. ;)

[Wayne]

I agree with the not alerting people to auctions policy (if indeed there is one here). I was surprised this wasn't deleted. More than once I've been watching something that I waited long and hard for only to have some do-gooder come along and alert the rest of the world about it (this is a different kind of case here). But I knew about the Trigor. Alan knew about the Trigor. You can be sure many people knew about it.

Still, someone got a smokin deal. :-) If 1200 is all a Trigor in Copal is fetching these days, I'm going to hang on to my Trigor in barrel. Maybe even use it now.