nicepix
Well-known member
I will admit that I am a great fan of ebay.
When I was first into photography if you wanted to buy or sell anything second hand you were basically restricted to small ads in the magazines or going through a dealer. If you sold a camera to a dealer for say £100, he would then sell it on for around £200. Come ebay and you could sell the same camera direct for around £150 so both buyer and seller benefited. Of course this has resulted in many photographic shops going to the wall. Same with second hand fishing tackle. The old style second hand shops where you would buy and sell your old stuff are largely gone.
With new fishing tackle I find that it is far easier to search for something online on a site such as ebay than physically going to the shops or phoning round. The price of tackle has become cheaper and you can easily find the cheapest seller of any item. The downsides are that you can't actually pick up the item and inspect it and of course, many High Street shops are finding it hard to compete especially as there isn't the same demand these days for maggots, something that guaranteed a regular customer footfall in the past.
Overall I think that ebay is good for the angler if not the old fashioned retailer. Some have managed to embrace the new trend and seem to do very well out of industrial units and lock-ups.
What do you lot think?
When I was first into photography if you wanted to buy or sell anything second hand you were basically restricted to small ads in the magazines or going through a dealer. If you sold a camera to a dealer for say £100, he would then sell it on for around £200. Come ebay and you could sell the same camera direct for around £150 so both buyer and seller benefited. Of course this has resulted in many photographic shops going to the wall. Same with second hand fishing tackle. The old style second hand shops where you would buy and sell your old stuff are largely gone.
With new fishing tackle I find that it is far easier to search for something online on a site such as ebay than physically going to the shops or phoning round. The price of tackle has become cheaper and you can easily find the cheapest seller of any item. The downsides are that you can't actually pick up the item and inspect it and of course, many High Street shops are finding it hard to compete especially as there isn't the same demand these days for maggots, something that guaranteed a regular customer footfall in the past.
Overall I think that ebay is good for the angler if not the old fashioned retailer. Some have managed to embrace the new trend and seem to do very well out of industrial units and lock-ups.
What do you lot think?
