What do you do with 20-year-old fixtures now? Can you even get 10 cents on the dollar, or should you just throw them in a dumpster? Personally, I wish all the gear that’s been paid off three times over went in that bin, because I don’t ever want to see them again…Then there’s the other side of the coin. Marcel Fairbairn’s company, GearSource, out of Florida, specializes in selling quality used gear. Marcel can be a godsend to the companies who have limited budgets. He checks out the gear before it’s on his website. He may even guarantee it, I don’t know. If you need those three-year-old LED fixtures that you know will still get you a lot of miles, you love this time of year. You can make an offer.
—From “New vs. Old Gear,” LD-at-Large, PLSN, Oct. 2012
