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MarkWan
10-01-2006, 17:25
I'm selling a set of twin 10's to a friend of mine, but neither of us really know the going rate. So would like to get the forum's opinion on what's a fair price for both of us.

The steel (I think Faber) tanks are 9 years old, good condition, isolating manifold, custom diver bands (without the d-rings on the side), hydrostatic test Nov 2004. Manifold is unmarked, but I know it's from the same factory as Scubapro, so is probably Scubatec.

So what's a fair price?
Ben Panter
10-01-2006, 17:49
I'm selling a set of twin 10's to a friend of mine, but neither of us really know the going rate. So would like to get the forum's opinion on what's a fair price for both of us.

The steel (I think Faber) tanks are 9 years old, good condition, isolating manifold, custom diver bands (without the d-rings on the side), hydrostatic test Nov 2004. Manifold is unmarked, but I know it's from the same factory as Scubapro, so is probably Scubatec.

So what's a fair price?

Since you can get them new for 260 quid, I reckon something like 200. Maybe less.

I sold two tanks, independents, with bands, for 160 about 18 months ago. Younger than the ones you're looking at and in test. 40 quid for a manifold sounds reasonable.

Ben
Woz
10-01-2006, 18:19
About 185 is the going rate for cyls a couple of years old. For 9 yr old stuff I'd be asking about 150-160
Chris Cherrington
11-01-2006, 17:37
New ones here http://www.kentdiving.com/prod.asp?partno=FT10

£228 w/o the bands. I got bands for mine off ebay for 40 quid.

The spec. on Mark's is a bit better though.

Chris
Dave
12-01-2006, 07:23
For a 9 year old piece of equipment, I wouldn't pay as much as 50% of the new vat exclusive rate. Given that a twinset (new) with steel bands can be obtained for GBP236 exc tax, then anything more than GBP120 seems excessive and bad value to me

Dave
ChrisA
12-01-2006, 08:13
Anything is "worth" what someone is prepared to pay,
MarkWan
12-01-2006, 16:57
Given that a twinset (new) with steel bands can be obtained for GBP236 exc tax

Just out of curiosity, for that price, does the manifold have barrel or face o-rings? it would be interesting to know if manifolds with barrel o-rings are genuinely more resilent to knocks, as those manifolds (new) seem to cost a lot more than the face o-ring versions (eg MDE)
PeteM
12-01-2006, 17:08
Just out of curiosity, for that price, does the manifold have barrel or face o-rings? it would be interesting to know if manifolds with barrel o-rings are genuinely more resilent to knocks, as those manifolds (new) seem to cost a lot more than the face o-ring versions (eg MDE)

One of the cheapest manifolds around is the San O Sub which is barrel O rings
MarkWan
12-01-2006, 17:25
Didn't know that. As you can guess from the age of my twinset, I started diving twins a long while back, when there was a marked difference in price and availability of barrel o-ring type manifolds. And as my nitrox instructor back then is now a GUE instructor, you can probably guess what advice was given about kit :-)