I
know. But to be fair, I resell a lot of film cameras and lenses that I pick up untested on ebay or markets, often they just need a clean or non-mobile phone pictures taken of them, also you can get an extra £5-10 for putting £1.50 worth of batteries in them. It helps that I'm now the person people offload old cameras they have had sitting in their loft since they went digital. It's not a huge profit by any means but it did buy me a new dining room table. (see I'm learning, 6 months ago and that would have gone on a nikon lens or the panasonic 1.7 that I still don't own
).
The cameras I have to keep are the D300, GF3, Nikon F-801m, Nikon F65, Olympus OM 30 and samsung ECX1. (plus soon the G1 I'm being lent) film cameras are all boxed and mint. I have a few old canon 300/300vs, a old Prakticar fully mechanical and a consumer nikon (f50?) and a box of point and shoots sitting around. I may keep the chinon because the lenses it comes with are fantastic and I don't own another M42.*
You would think that the film market is dead but it's far far from it, you just have to find what people want and people want classic and pretty. A Olympus OM 10 will go for 3x more than a Canon 300v which is the very last consumer camera they made and has all the internal gubbins of a modern DSLR with the bonus of being full frame.
*I have a fubared roll of film that I test lenses or shutter speed/internal gubbins on, one day I may develop it and call it "art"