But if I were a commercial seller (I do not even sell at all), would anyone preferring a clean camera pay a premuim to get a cleaned camera from me? I doubt it. I spend one hour cleaning at average for a simple camera. But I got SLRs were on the body alone I spent 4 hours, just cosmetically cleaning. Who would pay me that? One could argue that a dirty camera likely was bought-in cheap, and by that any effort would pay off. I doubt it.
Nikonclassics documents all his items with beautiful detailed photo's. Doing that with dirty camera's is not a good promotion so with his bright web site it is virtually a necessity to display clean and dust free stuff. He will inevitably spend a lot of time doing the cleanups and checks and of course all the items must be photographed, but strangely his prices are still very reasonable and not much higher than other dealers.
Of course it can also be the other way around; if you clean up your camera's as he does, he can show them in full bright light. But actually I think it starts with a philosophy how you want to present your merchandise.
Two other dealers I know in the Netherlands, who sell their gear 'as-is', document their hardware with a limited number of small, dark and unclear photo's which are actually quite useless in practice. So, there you have the logic. That are some specific problems how to frame your business and how to calculate your prices.
