Used Polaroid cameras in Abu Dhabi typically sell for AED 125 to AED 545 (about $34 to $150). Instant cameras are bought to be used, so the whole sale rests on one thing: proving it fires and that film is still made for it.
Selling a Polaroid camera in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is the capital and its economy is built around government and energy, which means longer postings and more settled households than Dubai. Things are kept for longer and sold in better condition, and the market skews towards quality furniture rather than quick disposals.
Postings here run longer than Dubai’s, so turnover is slower and steadier. The end of the school year is still the peak, but the volume is lower and the items that appear have usually been looked after.
Most of the city sits on an island connected by a handful of bridges, so crossing to the mainland suburbs is a real trip rather than a short hop. Compounds and towers usually need visitor access arranged in advance.
Ask how long the seller has owned the item. Postings here run longer than in Dubai, so goods are typically better used but also better looked after, and the ownership history tells you which you are getting.
Handing it over in Abu Dhabi
Trading is not open in the Emirates yet, so treat this as a reference page: the pricing and the checks below hold, but the listings will appear once sellers here start posting.
What Polaroid cameras are worth
What lifts the price
- Working flash and functioning rollers
- Original strap, case and manual
What pulls it down
- Perished bellows with light leaks
- Dirty rollers causing streaked images
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
- Check which film format it takes and confirm that format is still in production, since several are not.
- 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 film compartment with the rollers visible
Put in the description
- Model, and the exact film format it takes
- Whether it has been tested, and with what result
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.
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.
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Common questions
Where can I sell a Polaroid camera in Abu Dhabi?
Put it on WishThrift free and deal with the buyer direct. Most of the city sits on an island connected by a handful of bridges, so crossing to the mainland suburbs is a real trip rather than a short hop. Compounds and towers usually need visitor access arranged in advance.
What film does it take?
Name the exact format. Buyers have been caught out buying cameras for discontinued film, so they check carefully.
How much is a Polaroid camera worth in Abu Dhabi?
Most used Polaroid cameras change hands for AED 125 to AED 545 (about $34 to $150). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling a Polaroid camera across the United Arab Emirates, what Polaroid cameras are worth, everything second hand in Abu Dhabi, or Cameras & Photography in Abu Dhabi.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.