{"id":6900,"date":"2016-02-29T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2016-06-01T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T17:43:48","slug":"why-we-dont-purchase-lower-value-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/why-we-dont-purchase-lower-value-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Don&#8217;t Purchase Lower Value Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve requested an offer from us you might have received a response that included the term &#8220;minimum value threshold&#8221;. \u00a0Our minimum value threshold is the dollar amount at which we no longer purchase any particular item. \u00a0Generally it&#8217;s around $200 used retail value. \u00a0If an item sells for less than that amount used we generally don&#8217;t buy it.<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t be alone if you thought that we simply purchase gear, sell it for a profit and pocket the money. \u00a0If only it were that easy! \u00a0In all actuality there is a cost of doing business that comes along with every item we sell. \u00a0If we buy a camera we&#8217;re either paying to ship it to us or we&#8217;re sending someone to go get it. Once we receive it we test it, clean it and take pictures. \u00a0Then we create an ad for it and write\u00a0a description specific to that item. \u00a0Once it sells we test it again, pack it and ship it. \u00a0In addition to these costs, we also pay eBay fees, Paypal fees, credit card processing fees, we buy packing material and we pay for shipping.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes with a\u00a0cost and while we can wrap that cost into more expensive items, it&#8217;s impossible\u00a0to do on inexpensive items. \u00a0There are many cases in which we could potentially have someone give<em>\u00a0<\/em>us a $100 item for free and after the cost of doing business, paying fees and covering shipping, we&#8217;d lose money.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this gives a bit of insight into why we might not buy specific gear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve requested an offer from us you might have received a response that included the term &#8220;minimum value threshold&#8221;. \u00a0Our minimum value threshold is the dollar amount at which we no longer purchase any particular item. \u00a0Generally it&#8217;s around $200 used retail value. \u00a0If an item sells for less than that amount used we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}