I Spent $100 on 20 cameras at a Pawn Shop going out of business. Worth the risk?

In this video I go through 20 different pocket digital cameras (digicams) that I purchased from a pawn shop that was closing (going out of business). They had clearly been accumulating over a few years and while some physically looked broken, others looked ok, so I took the risk as it was a take all only deal. Join me in this video as we go through various models from Samsung, Nikon, Sony, Canon, and Casio. I've been flipping and buying camera gear for many years, and this is one of my favorite parts of the job!
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[@steveschnetzler5471]

Always fun to watch. I would appreciate a video on "cleaning up" the sticky rubber. It happens on lots of stuff, and to be able to clean/stabilize/de-sticky it would be great. Thanks.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Great suggestion! I actually have about a dozen cameras in various states of disrepair largely because of sticky rubber.

[@_thethys_9174]

LETS GOO ANOTHER VIDEO !! (i follow you since Not very long, and I have to say that I love your channel! Cameras are a passion for me too! Have a nice day !)

[@_thethys_9174]

And sorry for m'y Bad english i'm french :')

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thank you kindly! If this one does well, hopefully I will get another out in short order

[@isobarkley]

those SX100 pics were surprisingly good!! found your channel after grabbing a t7i DSLR from a local pawn shop :) subbed!

[@pricklypearcamera]

@@isobarkley very cool! Thanks for watching!

[@pablo.f1]

Hi Kevin! Thanks for the new video and also for sharing your knowledge about this amazing camera business. Greetings from Uruguay 😃

[@pricklypearcamera]

Hey, thanks!

[@Michaels_Angle]

Yay! Another unboxing!

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks as always!

[@steveschnetzler5471]

always a fun watch, It reminds me of how dim and bad viewing angle the older camera displays where. I am so spoiled now with the super bright displays, but it does effect battery life.

[@d3xmeister]

First seconds I was thinking: “Wouldn’t a pawn shop test every single camera before they take it ?”

[@BenSheston-ft6ls]

Perhaps the pawn shop buys it as part of a bundle?

[@GeorgesCurios]

As a UK seller of similar cameras on eBay, i always find these videos of yours interesting. Roll on the next one!

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks! How is the UK market camera wise? Did you see a similar bump in point and shoot sales over the last few years?

[@GeorgesCurios]

UK market seems OK at the moment. I sell any and all cameras from 1920s to 2010s. Not sure I've sold enough 'P&S's to notice an upsurge, but they do all sell in due course. @@pricklypearcamera

[@michaelbell75]

Glad to see videos like this again! Really remarkable just how many digicams have been made over the past 20 years. Literally hundreds of models. Ive got dozens from Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fuji, Panasonic, Pentax and Olympus. Ive been on a bridge camera kick lately! Just recently got the Canon Powershot SX130. That 100 looks cool too. Sucks about that A610. I just bought an A85 with the black screen of death and returned it. A common problem with the A series unfortunatley.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice to see you again Michael- hope all is well! The ol' black screen of death rears its head again! Bummer to hear that, and you're right, quite common!

[@hubertthong7405]

Nice video !! Exactly the content I crave .Picked up many good tips from you. I'm from Malaysia and do the exact same work as you. Buying and selling cameras.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks !

[@jwagnermail]

That Canon 610 was my go-to point and shoot for many years, always had great exposures, color, and zoom. Not very good in the dark but that is standard for P&S. If it had HD video I might still take it out and use it, even today.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice! That's a great little camera!

[@darkvantage2019]

About the A610 you might wanna take a look on the display button, the previous owner might have disabled liveview and removed the battery, that can sometimes bug the liveview, so you might want to restart the camera a few times and check the clock battery, my A530 also arrived with that problem and it was a dirty button so i cleaned it and boom, it works.

[@pricklypearcamera]

I did not know that, and will check-thanks for the tip!

[@bigwill4423]

Super video! Glad you got enough decent cameras to make a profit! Your depth of knowledge on all those different camera models is unbelievable! Years of experience in the trade I guess! Look forward to seeing the Samsung vid when it comes out. 👍😎😎😎

[@pricklypearcamera]

Thanks a ton for watching-yes, it just kind of gets absorbed into you after spending so many years using and testing cameras!

[@darkvantage2019]

I have the SX130IS and i tell you, the zoom noise is considerably lower compared to the SX100. I love the SX series by how good the image quality is for such a small camera, and paired with CHDK? A beast for sure! Even battery life is farily decent for a camera that only uses two double AAs. Awesome video as always dude, i really liked it 👏

[@pricklypearcamera]

Really appreciate that-thanks! Yeah, they are a noisy bunch! When the SX100 was released I was in camera sales at a camera shop and even compared to other comparable brands at the time, right out of the box it was a noisy little camera, but you're right, I love the pic quality.

[@MacchiDola]

Great to see another video. Your videos inspired me to do the same and so far I've been having good results with decent profits :)

[@pricklypearcamera]

Nice work!

[@mistervacation23]

Well, here's what you can do with four cameras, that you can't do with three. You take two of the cameras, you price them identically. The third camera, you price a Iittle Iess. The fourth camera, you price a Iittle higher. Customer comes in wanting to buy a camera He figures the Ieast expensive camera's either a bargain, or there's something wrong with it. But it gets him thinking. It gets him talking to you. In other words, you've got him in the game. Odds are, he doesn't take camera number three because he reads it as defective. But it pushes him towards cameras one and two, which he already thinks are a good deal, because of the higher price of camera number four. Or maybe he's drawn to camera number four. I mean, why is this camera more expensive? You tell him it's never been used.You point out that cameras one and two have never been used, the only difference is,camera number four is still in the box. Now, he does one of two things.He either buys one of your cameras at the regular price, which he now thinks is a bargain or, he springs for the one in the box because he plans to give it to someone as a present, and he needs the box so it Iooks new and not Iike some camera he just picked up at a pawn shop. So by purchasing this camera in its box you increase the value of the three cameras you already have. What do you think?

[@ronjenkins4257]

Oddly fascinating. The very last one is the same as one of mine that I had fun installing CHDK onto back in the day. It's sitting on the shelf. I do wonder who buys these cameras these days, what with cell phone cameras being as good as they are.

[@steveschnetzler5471]

orange oil is great at getting old glue off of stuff.

[@whateverrobert]

Where I live. At flea markets the camera go for like 10 to 15. If they have better cameras they can go high priced my sis picked up a Nikon 35 mm with two lense for 15 bucks. At times you just gotta search for a deal. I been finding my camera lense at good prices I got my 50mm for 60 and found a canon at a goodwill for 48 not bad. And I’m not stating bad toward you and your deals. I enjoy the videos and learned thing about camera lenses from you. So keep up the great work. And videos. I think I have some of them cameras

[@pricklypearcamera]

That’s great! Sounds like you are finding some nice deals!

[@whateverrobert]

@@pricklypearcamera yes. I research stuff. I do cameras and bikes videos. So I search a lot for things and value

[@Dahrenhorst]

You have actually pawn shops in the USA, which accept non-working, or scratched and battered 10 year old digicams as pawns? In Europe pawn shops hardly would be an address for sourcing old digicams. Here you find them on Ebay, classifieds or backyard sales, and in bulk boxes at auctions, but I've never seen these in pawn shops in this decade. I hardly can imagine that a pawn shop here would even bother to assess a digicam like those, would they be presented to them by someone. A pawn shop which actually has digicams in stock which won't work and have a value of 0 USD - no wonder that it goes out of business. Or are pawn shops in the USA charities? Scratching my head ... Thanks for the video nonetheless, always interesting to see your assessments!

[@pricklypearcamera]

I think they originally accepted these 10-12 years ago and due to poor inventory management they just sat around for many years in a backroom until the business closed. Most pawnshops here are more like you describe.

[@Victorm61767]

Scuff and scraches or color peeling sny color correction to buy in s hardware store? Tbanks

[@pricklypearcamera]

Maybe check out this thread on DPreview which discusses a few options: www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4517259#:~:text=I%20tried%20a%20couple%20of,Camera%20looks%20good%20now.

[@whateverrobert]

Idea. Do a video on you charging department might give people ideas how to set up one. I struggle with all the go pro chargers to all the camera chargers. I have cases to put them in.

[@pricklypearcamera]

Great idea! I will add that to my project list!

[@michaelbell75]

Kastar makes a universal charger with adjustable positive and negative prongs that fit nearly any battery. It's technically a travel charger, so it takes awhile to charge batteries but it's well worth the money.

[@whateverrobert]

@@michaelbell75 correct I have some of them.

[@aniljoshi2153]

brother i want to buy used mirrorless camera how to buy and where i can buy cheapest and not from the ebay website

[@pricklypearcamera]

Not sure what country you're in, but there are many other direct c2c options like Mercari, facebook. There are also other businesses that specialize in used camera gear like mpb that you could check out.

[@Aniketshyam]

i get the point of these cameras in poorer countries like mine..but who who would actually buy these in the US?

[@pricklypearcamera]

Well, as it always comes down to, it's supply and demand. As these haven't been made in 10-20 years, there's not any more being produced and supply by way of broken or lost cameras goes down every year, and there are people interested in vintage digital cameras, and then a lot of buyers are buying to replace the same exact model they had that broke.

[@Aniketshyam]

@@pricklypearcamera so its more like a nostalgic thing like "Dad had this camera imma repair it" or Mom had this camera i wanna buy the same" kinda deal