Any experience good or bad selling used gear through avgear.com?
ASKED BY · Jeff Cohen · MIAMI BEACH, FL · 30 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:37:38
Has not used AV Gear but warns of phishing scams on similar peer-to-peer gear sale sites; recommends buying high-value items from reputable dealers and avoiding clicking links in user messages.
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37:16And you still have that on scopes. You can have it come in at seven or zero at black so you can set them. Next question. All right, this one's coming in from Jeff Cohen in Miami Beach, Florida. Any experience, good or bad, selling used gear through avgear.com? Courtney? I have not seen this site. It looks interesting. I'm getting ready to put my bid down on some ingenue lenses here for only $229,000.
37:46So let me see if I've got that much credit on my credit card. No. You know, I have not used this and they may be perfectly vetting everyone that posts on this site. I can tell you my bad experience with another offer up, which is another gear for sale site that I put a printer on. And immediately, I had never been on that site before.
38:14And immediately, I put something up and immediately I got two posts. Oh, we want to buy your printer for the price you're offering it at. We've already purchased it, etc. Just click on this link. and that came in a message from the site itself. I clicked on the link and it said, okay, you know, this sale has gone, and I said, well, after range payment,
38:40oh, we've already paid it through the site, came back the message, and here's the link. Just enter your credit card. It will be credited to your site, and it looked like the actual site. It smelled, it came from a URL that had the actual site's name in it with a little prefix in front of it. But it was totally bogus. And they don't – and I got three offers like this from different users.
39:08And the problem is because you're dealing with people that operate under aliases, they can – anybody can create an account and put a phony – and a link in any one of their messages that takes you to a phony website website that looks like the real website, behaves like the real website, even has a pop-up chat like the real website and will steal your credit card information.
39:31So be careful, especially when you're dealing with products that could be $229,000. So be very, very careful in something like this and make sure that they're vetted carefully and that you don't do click on any links and any communications you get from these guys. So the moral of the story is buy your Ingenue lenses from a reputable dealer. That's right. A guy out of a white van on the street that says,
39:58I've got some overstock from Ingenue and I just got to get rid of them before I go to my next job. Yeah. If you're dropping big bucks, you've got to consider the source. That said, AV Gear does have a physical location. So if any of our lovely producers who are in the Las Vegas area want to drop by and ask some more pointed questions, I'd love to know.
40:23Like, what is their situation like? As a matter of fact, it could be fun to hear about how that business works on a Tuesday evening sometime. So you never know. Next question. This one is from Paul Valhus in Austin, Texas. Sony's $399 ECM W5 wireless kit records 32-bit float into the camera through the MyShu with 64 gig of backup per transmitter for Sony shooters.