Fair value for Beseler 4x5 enlarger

In article ,
Nick Zentena wrote:

My Beseler 4x5 came from a dealer. One of the best in town. It's not mint
but good enough it came with a 6 month warranty. No lenses but almost every
carrier made and a bunch of lensboards. 2 years ago it set me back
something around $250 US. When I wanted a colour head I instead bought an
almost NIB Durst 4x5 for $300. 4x5 enlargers just aren't selling for big
money today.
Nick

Yes I understand what you are saying.

My point was/is what is fair is not
what you ultimately may get for the
item.
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"Nick Zentena" wrote in message
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Gregory W Blank wrote:
In article ,
Nick Zentena wrote:

How high would that have been? I'm going out on a limb to say that in
today's digital world it's worth less then that.
Nick

Junk is junk. If the enlarger cost 2,000 ....10 years ago
and looks brand new,......well it would be fair to get
1,000 don't ya think. Just because its fair does not mean they
will get the asking price. Meerly that ista fair asking price
reflective if the original price. Now if the item is a 5 on a scale of
10 then maybe a 1/4 of the price would be fair. Digital or not someone
who appreciates a good working order item will still appreciate getting
a
fair deal. Try etting that from a photo dealer and you my as well
give it to them. What it boils down to is look at the price that was
paid and realistically
assess the condition, and that will give you at least a good place to
start.


My Beseler 4x5 came from a dealer. One of the best in town. It's not
mint
but good enough it came with a 6 month warranty. No lenses but almost
every
carrier made and a bunch of lensboards. 2 years ago it set me back
something around $250 US. When I wanted a colour head I instead bought an
almost NIB Durst 4x5 for $300. 4x5 enlargers just aren't selling for big
money today.

Nick

It's the shipping that gets ya!

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Originally Posted by David Kilpatrick

If anyone is desperately in need, I've got sitting around doing very
little two Leafscans (one without lens, one with a broken power supply)
which can be turned by a competent D-I-Y repairperson into one Leafscan
45. I also have a complete one which I use, these are spares, but they
are blocking up to the storeroom. One of the 'spares' belongs to another
photographer, Steve Climpson, who sent it me on the basis that if I had
time to assemble a finished Leafscan from his and mine, and sell it, we
would split the proceeds. I don't have time, Steve probably doesn't care
now, and any offers for the mass of parts and casings (mostly assembled,
but not entirely :-) from the UK would probably be accepted. I even have
a spare NuBus GBIP board (very useful, that...)

I have a large number of carriers including a rotating rollfilm carrier,
35mm slides, various different rollfilm aperture fixed carriers and the
tensioning 5 x 4, and several duplicates among them. I definitely need
to keep the tensioning one - it cost me a fortune at the time - and the
35mm mounted slide but I may have some others which are surplus to any
forseeable need unless they go with the above spares. The Leafscan is
now used about once every three months because every photographer/writer
I deal with now submits on CD.

David
Icon Publications Ltd
Kelso, Scotland

It's a long shot, but if you're still there, David, and you haven't sold them already, I'll gladly take those rotating neg holders off your hands!