Used Polaroid cameras in Montreal 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.
Selling a Polaroid camera in Montreal
Montreal has the most distinctive moving culture in the country: a very large share of leases end on the same day at the start of July, and for about a week the entire city changes address at once. The second-hand market is built around that single date.
The July moving week produces a concentration of second-hand furniture that has no real equivalent elsewhere in Canada. Prices in the days either side of it are the lowest of the year, and the choice is at its widest.
The outdoor staircases that front so many buildings here are narrow, steep and often spiral, and they defeat more furniture than anything else. Establish the stairs before the price, and remember that winter makes all of it considerably harder.
Measure the outdoor staircase, not just the doorway. The spiral and half-turn stairs on many buildings here defeat sofas and mattresses that would fit anywhere else, and the seller may never have taken it out that way.
Handing it over in Montreal
Canada Post, Purolator and UPS cover the country, but rates change sharply between provinces and remote postcodes carry surcharges.
What Polaroid cameras are worth
What lifts the price
- Models that take film still in production
- Working flash and functioning rollers
What pulls it down
- Cameras taking discontinued film formats
- Dirty rollers causing streaked images
Working out what yours is worth
- Shine a torch inside the bellows in a dark room to find leaks
- Clean the rollers and run a test pack if you have one
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
- The model name and any battery compartment, plus every scuff or crack
Put in the description
- Model, and the exact film format it takes
- Battery type, and whether the camera takes batteries or the film pack does
Steady year round with a strong Christmas lift, since instant cameras are a common gift. Tested working vintage models sell within days.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Quebec)
Common questions
Where can I sell a Polaroid camera in Montreal?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The outdoor staircases that front so many buildings here are narrow, steep and often spiral, and they defeat more furniture than anything else. Establish the stairs before the price, and remember that winter makes all of it considerably harder.
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.
How much is a Polaroid camera worth in Montreal?
Most used Polaroid cameras change hands for C$47 to C$210 (about $34 to $150). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling a Polaroid camera across Canada, what Polaroid cameras are worth, everything second hand in Montreal, or Cameras & Photography in Montreal.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.