How to Sell Your Professional Video Equipment

What we need from you.

In order to sell your items we'll need some information. Gather the following information:

• A very good description of your item(s) including any options, accessories and installed boards. Serial numbers and VTR hours are important to include. If your hour meters are dead (Earth to SONY!!!) then our industry considers them worn out no matter what you say unless you can show documentation of head replacement within the last few months. Often hours are x 10 (Earth to SONY again!) for no apparently good reason –consult your destruction manual. Give us some idea of the overall condition. “Excellent”, “good”, “fair”, “poor”, “parts” are good ways to describe the condition. Pictures are a good idea but try to keep them at 640x480. People are mainly looking for cosmetic appearance so give us a good shot of the front and rear panels. For cameras give us good shot of all sides. Fill the frame with the item please.
• A price Let us know what you’d like to net from the sale. We do have general guidelines as to our fees but they do vary according to selling price and other factors –call us for details.
• Your Name, Address, Phones, fax and e-mail

Things you should know.

You might want to have a short conversation with Guido and Luigi , our credit managers, for more details about how the sale takes place and about our terms.

Sending your listings.

For a few items an e-mail or fax ((763) 560-6647) will suffice. If you have a long list then we sure would like to get it in electronic form. A simple Excel spreadsheet or tab delimited text file is preferred though we’ll take anything you send. We need (and would prefer) only “quantity”, “description” and “price”. There is no need to give us separate fields for manufacturer and model number -just stick everything except the price and the quantity in the description field. Be sure to include your name and phone number in the document before you attach it to your e-mail -you wouldn’t believe how many “Equipmentlist.xls”s we get.

Then e-mail the whole shebang to us. Please, please, please include your phone and fax numbers, address and your e-mail address in the e-mail and the document.

When we receive your listing(s) we will fax you back a confirmation which we ask that you sign and mail or fax back. We will also periodically send update reminders.

Manufacturers and dealers please call for our discounted rates for selling "B" stock and demo pieces.

Down the road.

Please respond to the update reminders. If something is not selling maybe you need to lower the price. A lot of people took baths on Betacam because they left the price too high for too long and now the market has fallen. We can give you some guidance.