FS (UK) 24-105L F4 IS USM nearly new

[tigger917]

Ok guys


I have here for sale a 24-105mm L F4 IS USM lens from Canon. if you are looking at this you arlready know what it is and probably what it is worth. Current UK RRP is £849. I bought this for my 20D last November and have hardly used it since, no more than 500 clicks. All of the use has been in doors in my studio. I bought it from Misfuds and have the receipt. They have told me that if I sold the lens then it would still have the remainder of the warranty on it who ever buys it. It was a new item which came from a 5DMKII kit. Anyway there is a genuine reason for sale. I have just bought a new 5DMKII which came with the 24-105 l IS as a standard. Therefore, I have two of the same lens. I will ship worldwide and the buyer would pay the postage and any insurance they desired. The lens is in perfect full working condition with no damage scratches or mould. Both end caps the bag and hood are all included.You can look at my ebay feedback to check my credibility at tigger-aka-the-brain . Anyway suffice to say you want to know the price well I will take £700 paypal as gift. OrUK Cheque.
it was bought on 24/11/09 and the item was bought NEW the date code is ux0817 = The first letter, "U", indicates that the lens was made in Canon's Utsunomiya, Japan factory.The second letter is worked out from the following
U = 2006,
V = 2007,
W = 2008,
X = 2009,
Y = 2010
The postage would be at cost for what ever service the buyer wants. Feel free to ask me any questions related to this sale. PM me if interested

John

[flake]

A bit expensive John, Devon Camera are selling it new for £750 (here)

[tigger917]

Originally Posted by flake

A bit expensive John, Devon Camera are selling it new for £750 (here)

Not really considering the RRP at Mifsuds where I bought it less than three months ago is currently £849 http://www.mifsuds.com/acatalog/L_Series_Lenses.html
At the end of the day it is still a bargain and I am happy with the lens. Bear in mind that it is one of the Canon L series flagship lens's so I think £700 is fair and resonable. As I said in the orignal post it will have the warranty with it and the orignal receipt.

John

[anglefire]

John, I have to agree with Flake on this one.

Whilst you may think its reasonable, buyers may not.

I've just looked on ebay and there are plenty about for under £700. And that is the price that most will be expecting to pay.

[tigger917]

Take a good look at those on ebay! They ( the ones you mentioned less than £700) are mostly from Hong Kong and there are a number of reasons to buy from the UK. Firstly the price that I am asking is what you would pay! No hidden extras like VAT or Parcel Farce charges! Next up is the warranty. It is with Canon UK and not limited to Hong Kong so you would deal direct with a UK importer not have to send the lens back to HK for repair or replacement should there be a problem, and have to pay the added expense of that. Whilst I wanted for people to get a fair deal with this item I really do not need someone rudely interupting this post to try to put it off track. I appreciate that this is an open forum but I would not dream of making comments like those that have been levied here, at the end of the day if someone wants to buy then let them.
The lens is worth £849 RRP and higher at the likes of Argos at £1049 so I don't think the asking price is high at all. take alook at
http://camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod31.html then try 24-105 and see what I mean?
Look at the range on the right of the page and you will see that it has steadily increased in price over the last few years and I guess you may get an understanding of why I am asking what I am!

Hopefully this is now back on track as I have now un necessarily had to justify my asking price. Hopefully any prospective buyer might see that what I am saying is sense.
John

P.S. I am not hiding my identity behind an annonomous title, that is my name and I will use it when I answer any questions.

[anglefire]

John,

I'm not trying to sabatage your posting - and actually the ones on ebay I looked at were actually UK sales, often with free P+P and less than £700. One with 11months warranty.

All I'm saying is that you have to be realistic. If I was in the market for one of these lenses (I'm not, I have one) I would first look on ebay too see what the going rate was to see if the price you were charging was reasonable. Unfortunately Ebay has become the arbiter of price. Like it or not.

And John, just because Argos sell it for £1049, dosn't justify your price anymore than before - It is still available new for £750.

As for having an anonomous title, Trigger917 isn't exactly a real name. Just because you've then signed John at the bottom, doesn't mean that's your real name!

Mine is actually Mark, the screen name of Anglefire is one (Or a variant) that I use on every forum I go on. Most forums I have a sig line with my website on, which gives a better clue as to my real full name.

I just haven't been bothered to set it up on here since it became photoradar. Mostly because it is a generally unfriendly site and I really don't know why I bother to post.

Anyway, I hope you do sell your lens and that you do get your asking price.

[flake]

Anglefire is right John, just because you paid too much doesn't mean that someone buying it from you should also. The price you are asking for is only £50 less than it can be bought new, but you also want to add postage so it could end up being even less of a saving.

There are a couple of questions I would like to ask. Do you have the original packaging plus paperwork which came with the lens? Original packaging makes a bigger difference to the price than you might expect.
Secondly if this lens is as good a copy as you say, why didn't you sell the one which came in the box with the 5D MkII as a lens which had never been used? An unusued lens would perhaps merit such a high price.

I think if you do sell this on ebay you will get about £650 for it (dependant on the box etc) but when you take away the ebay fees and the paypal charges you'll be looking at around £560.

The advice I'm trying to give is that the current price is very high, if you reduce it by £50 you'll probably sell it, and it would represent a fair price to both parties, you'll make £100 more than you would expect on Ebay and the buyer will save £100 on the new price.

A fair exchange is no robbery

[Forseti]

Interesting thread and, without taking sides, here's my opinion. First, if I wasn't interested in the possibility of searching out a shop with the possibility of part exchanging this lens to add another one to your collection then my next course of action would be place it on ebay. The chances of selling it on this forum are almost non existent I would think especially for the asking price as the captive audience is somewhat limited so to speak. Also, in my experience, there are buyers on ebay who either have no idea of the real worth of something, or get caught up in auctioning fever and will pay anything simply for the pleasure of winning. A few days ago I sold my much loved, but also much used, 18 month old 40D to a buyer who could have bought this camera brand new had he done an internet search for 9 Euros more. At least he did have the sense to collect it personally which also saved me the postage costs etc.

It's also worth nothing that the guarantee with a lens (unlike camera bodies) is an international guarantee so the mention of the possibility of a lens purchased from H.K. having to be returned to H.K. is not a valid point.

[cosmicma]

i'm in two minds about this over the last 6 months or so iv'e watched this lens rise from £750 new sold without box from a 5d mkII kit at my local camera shop ( mathers ) to just short of a £1000 in most retail outlets with the exeption of a couple ( bristol cameras , devon cameras etc.. ) so £700 for one in as new condition could be seen as a fair price to someone who lived locally abd didn't want the hassels of postage . ebay etc..

on the other hand if i was local to devon and intended buying one of these lenses then i would go there for the sake of 50 quid or so
ebay is all very well but if i'm spending hundreds of pounds through ebay i allways collect or i don't buy so if that means a round trip of say 500 miles ( like the last ebay trip ) i have to consider the cost of fuel etc.. so even if i won one at £600 and it was at the other side of the country at the end of the day it wou;d still have cost the same as the guy is askng but if it was local i would save some money
i don't trust the post and i like to see what i am buying ( hence willing to travel ) and i'm sure i'm not alone when it comes to expensive kit on this
at the end of the day it's down to the potential buying audience if someone local is looking to save a few quid then the price is fair but if someone who is willing to chance customs or don't mind postage one could be had for a similar or cheaper price if they get lucky with ebay

selling things on forums is very hit and miss anyway unless it's dirt cheap if you want a fair price it's a bit of a struggle

[KeithT]

Any piece of equipment is only worth what you can get for it. That goes for anything else you sell. Best way is to put it on ebay at a ridiculously low price with a reserve of say £690 and see how it goes. If it doesn't reach reserve then you will know you are too expensive. If it does and you sell it, think yourself lucky that you are not stuck with two of them.