Quick Survey to understand how people buy/sell used photography equipment

By Raghavendra Kopalle on May 18, 2015 5 Comments / 1202 views

Hello Rodinhooders,

We are a startup into 360° photography services, during our interactions with fellow photographers we felt there is a gap in how used gear is bought/sold online, listings are scattered, none of the existing sites show up similar products, a specific piece of gear you are looking for is not available right now but you wouldn’t know when someone is selling it unless you keep checking frequently. The initial idea is to build an aggregator + a service like google alerts. But before building anything we are trying to understand how photographers are buying/selling used photography gear online.

So if you are a photographer(serious or casual) and have tried to sell/buy gear online would be great if you could spare a few minutes to respond to the survey below. Do share with any photog friends too –

https://goo.gl/forms/HOhKeLccSF

Would love to hear your thoughts, if you think it might work or just doesn’t make sense.

Thanks in advance.

Raghav
36ty Solutions
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Comments

Raghavendra Kopalle

5 Comments

Tarun May 20, 2015, 8:21 am

Hi Raghavendra

The idea looks good but I am doubtful about the market size.

Also in the survey, I will suggest not to make all the questions mandatory. I have searched a lot on web for equipments but haven’t bought any, for various reasons. So most of the questions are irrelevant for me. It will be better if questions are not mandatory.

Best of Luck!
Raghavendra Kopalle May 20, 2015, 11:04 am

Thanks Tarun. Will change the mandatory questions, yes some are not applicable at times.

We plan to start with a niche segment which we are a part of. Do you think there are other used goods which can be catered to? TIA.
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal May 31, 2015, 5:09 pm

did u get responses?
Raghavendra Kopalle June 1, 2015, 8:34 am

Hi Alok sir, Got some 200+ responses from different sources and some inputs on chat 🙂 Will share progress soon!
yuvraj wadhwani June 28, 2015, 6:43 pm

Hello,

Off topic quesstion, do you sell equipment that allows to capture 360 view of products?