Used lenses and camera bodies on leboncoin via Telegram

Photographers in France who wait for one particular lens can let a leboncoin search drop every new match into Telegram, ready to answer from the street.

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Search on leboncoin, sort by newest

Search the photo category for one item

On leboncoin, look in the photo category and type the item with its mount or system: „Canon RF 35 1.8“, „Sony A7 III body“, „Fuji XF 23 f2“. Set a price ceiling, your town and a radius you would cover for a test, Particulier if you prefer, and sort by most recent.
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Send the link to MXSender on Telegram

Copy the URL of the results page, add it in MXSender and choose Telegram. Email is offered too, for the same search. The first search is free, checked every 30 minutes.
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New listings land in your Telegram

Each new ad becomes a card

A card shows the photo, the title, the price and a button to the listing. Give every lens its own search and the hashtag on each card tells you which one has moved.
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Paste the leboncoin search link you want watched — we’ll check we can read it, then set up your alerts.

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Before the meeting: a lens and body checklist

Body: shutter count (nombre de déclenchements), sensor dust, dead or hot pixels, worn grip, working card door and screen. Lens: shine a light through it to look for haze, fungus or deep scratches, check the aperture blades are dry, test autofocus near and far, wide open.

Ask whether the facture or the original box still exists; either is a reasonable sign the seller owns it. Test in person and pay after, never a prepayment to a stranger.

Mount names that trip up a search

A „50mm f1.8“ exists for Canon EF and RF, Nikon F and Z, Sony E and Fuji X, so a search without the mount returns half the market. Always add the system.

Sellers also spell things differently, FE or Sony E, XF or Fujinon. A second search with the other spelling catches the ads the first misses, and each keeps its own hashtag.

Why the well-priced 85 mm rarely lasts

Good glass holds its value, so bargains only appear when a seller is in a hurry: switching system, clearing a relative’s kit, needing cash. Those ads draw messages quickly.

With Telegram already open on your phone, you can read the card, check the photos and reply with a concrete plan — when you can meet, that you will test, that you pay on the spot — while the listing is new.

Telegram compared with leboncoin’s saved alert

leboncoin can also save your search and tell you about new ads. MXSender adds a choice of channel and interval, cards you can forward to a photographer friend, mute for a less urgent search, and one chat on phone and desktop.

Free checks one search every 30 minutes, Starter at $5.99 five searches every 10 minutes, Pro at $14.99 twenty searches with the fastest checks. Every plan includes Telegram and email.