Thursday, February 28, 2008

Binoculars for sale

We have now closed the collection of optics for Malta and have sufficient binoculars for their needs with several over, it is our intention to sell or trade-in these extras against telescopes and tripods for the ALE. Rather than trade them in immediately we wanted to give local birders the opportunity to buy them if anyone wants to. All the binoculars have been valued by a birder who regularly deals in optics so we feel the prices fairly reflect their worth, these are as follows


Swift 8 x 42 in a black soft case £80

Bushnell 8 x 42 WA in a black case £50

Zeiss Dekarem 10 x 50 in a brown leather case £100

If anyone is interested in any of these please get in touch with me or Steve Downing

In addition to these we also have a number of pairs of cheaper bins which are really probably only fit to sell via a car boot sale or similar, does anyone go to car boot sales and would be prepared to sell these for us?
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5 comments:

Matt Bell said...

Have you thought about ebay for the cheaper bins? You might reach a higher price than that of a car boot.

10:42 pm
Nick Carter said...

Gary, our valuer, deals regularly on E bay and has said that the bins are unlikely to sell this way as the quality is poor. Someone else has suggested taking them to local auction houses, anyone any experience of this?

8:19 pm
Goldon Gordon said...

Hi Nick
If they are unlikely to raise much in the way of cash why not simply donate them to local schools for the kids to use ? It might encourage one or two to take up birding AND if you do it via local newspapers it will bring some publicty for ALE and maybe a couple of donations.

6:45 am
Nick Carter said...

Good idea as long as those that donated them agree

8:21 am
Goldon Gordon said...

Hi Nick
The pairs I donated can be used in this way.

1:38 pm

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