Sell Your Polaroid Camera in Canada

Used Polaroid cameras in Canada typically sell for C$47 to C$210 (about $34 to $150). Instant cameras are bought for the experience rather than the images, and film availability drives value more than the camera itself.

What Polaroid cameras are worth in Canada

Guide ranges converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not quotes — sellers set their own price. Grades are seller-declared; WishThrift does not inspect or verify them.

What lifts the price

• Working flash and functioning rollers
• Folding models with intact bellows

What pulls it down

• Cameras taking discontinued film formats
• Perished bellows with light leaks

Selling a Polaroid camera in Canada

Interac e-Transfer is the norm and is instant and traceable, which suits a private sale well. It is what most buyers will suggest before anything else.

Canada’s resale market is concentrated in a handful of metro areas separated by very long distances, which makes it unusually collection-led — most buyers are looking for something they can pick up the same week.

Canada Post, Purolator and UPS cover the country, but rates change sharply between provinces and remote postcodes carry surcharges.

Shipping cost is the single commonest reason a Canadian listing stalls. Decide collection versus courier before you price it, and say which you are offering.

Working out what yours is worth

• Confirm which film format it takes and whether that film is still sold
• Shine a torch inside the bellows in a dark room to find leaks

Getting it ready

• Load a pack and take a shot. A camera that has not been tested is worth far less because most old instant cameras do not work.
• Clean the rollers inside the film door, which is what causes streaked and blotchy pictures.

Photograph

• The camera closed and opened, whole, from the front
• An actual photograph it has taken, held next to the camera
• The model name and any battery compartment, plus every scuff or crack

Put in the description

• Whether that film is still manufactured
• Whether it has been tested, and with what result
• Battery type, and whether the camera takes batteries or the film pack does

Model and film type: “Polaroid 600 Instant Camera, Tested and Working” or “Instax Mini 9, Boxed”. The film format is the critical detail because it determines whether the camera is usable at all. The word tested belongs in the title when true — most listings cannot say it.

Light and easy to post. Remove any film pack and batteries before sending, and pad the bellows on folding models, which crease permanently if compressed.

It costs nothing to list

There is no listing fee, no selling fee and no commission, so the C$208 a buyer pays is the C$208 you keep. You and the buyer settle up and arrange the handover between yourselves; WishThrift does not hold the money or ship the item.

Where in Canada

Canada is a big place and what sells well moves with it. These are the parts of Canada with their own page for Polaroid cameras.

• Toronto
• Montreal
• Calgary
• Ottawa
• Edmonton
• Winnipeg
• Vancouver
• Brampton
• Hamilton
• Surrey
• Quebec City
• Halifax
• Laval
• London

Common questions

Where can I sell a Polaroid camera in Canada?

List it free on WishThrift and deal with the buyer direct. There is no selling fee, so the whole amount stays with you. Interac e-Transfer is the norm and is instant and traceable, which suits a private sale well. It is what most buyers will suggest before anything else.

Are the rollers clean?

Open the door and look. Dirty rollers streak every picture, they clean in a minute, and mentioning it shows you know the camera.

Are old instant cameras worth anything?

Ones that take film still in production are. Cameras needing discontinued formats sell mainly as display pieces.

Why do my instant photos come out streaked?

Usually dirty rollers. They clean easily and it is worth doing before you photograph the camera for sale.

More: how to sell a Polaroid camera, what Polaroid cameras are worth, or Cameras & Photography across Canada.