The latest 14 year old tech...

We all know technology moves quickly and that it's almost futile trying to keep up; Attempting to stay up-to-date will often just lead to financial stress and probably disappointment; Even as we un-box our latest tech there's new models hitting the stores, or so it seems and therefore the excitement and enjoyment out of having the latest and greatest it diminished, if not ruined all together.

Back in 2005 I purchased some camera equipment: A Canon EOS 400D, Canon 90-300mm lens and a Sigma 10-20mm lens as well. Those items cost me a lot of money at the time and whilst I didn't use them daily they served their purpose. It helped that they were tax deductible purchases and so looking back I consider the purchase sensible and it has served its purpose over many years.

Fast forward 14 years and my expensive purchase is worth significantly less. Almost nothing in fact.

I decided to move these items on and have listed them on eBay for sale. I haven't sold anything there for a long time so I was a little slow getting through the process but I got there in the end. I did their 7-day-auction option and started the opening bids at a very low figure after researching what's on the site for sale currently and past selling-prices. I will lose a significant amount of money if the items sell.

I haven't used this equipment for a long time hence the sale and I figured I'd rather see them head off to a new home and use by someone who appreciated the equipment, and having purchased it at a reasonable price. In my mind some aspiring photographer, a kid maybe, will buy them and make great use of them and be pleased to have purchased my equipment at a great price...I can almost see the amazing photo's that kid will take, maybe award-winners? That's the ideal. In reality it's likely the items won't sell and I'll be stuck with them in which case they'll sit around and do nothing, I'll throw them away or just give them to someone.

I have a sneaky suspicion that the equipment won't sell because who want's old camera equipment these days? What possible value could something like this have? I mean it's not even brand new! That's the way it is these days right? Things become obsolete so quickly and marketers expertly condition us to feel that if what we have isn't the very latest we are substandard people, not living life to the fullest or simply missing out on something. We are conditioned to want only the latest and greatest and so items like my camera equipment will possibly go unwanted.

I'm not one to change things over because a marketer tells me I need the latest version and mostly only buy something when I need it rather than when I want it. I also try to ensure that things I no longer need, or are no longer able to perform to my needs, are moved on to be utilised by someone else, case in point, my camera equipment.

I'm hoping my stuff sells, not for the money really, more because I want my stuff to head off somewhere it might do some good...That struggling kid-photographer I mentioned above maybe? I was contemplating offering it for sale on steem, you know, pack it off to someone for the price of some SBD + postage or something...We'll see how it goes I guess. Probably I'll just give it away if it doesn't sell.

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