I saw that. If I was in the neighborhood and his price was more wholesale than retail, I'd buy it. I love buying intact collections of anything and enjoying them for awhile and then reselling, but there's nowhere near enough profit there for all the work involved.
I bought an eccentric old man's toaster collection many years ago. It was an amazing collection. Around 120 toasters from the very beginnings of people making toast through the amazing design years of the 50s and 60s. The depth and "bread"th of the collection was staggering. The old man knew what he had.....he was paying collector prices for them for years, but he also understood all the work that would go into selling them. I got the collection for $750. I figured that if I sold them one at a time I could get around $2,500 - $3,000 for them, but it would take me proabably 6 months of part-time work taking photographs of all of them and typing desciptions and packaging them. It wouldn't be easy money, but it would be fun and I could keep it "under the table".
I decided to promote the coming availablity of this vast treasure trove of toasters, I'd make a big splashy ad on eBay for the whole lot with a Buy It Now price that was high enough to generate interest, but low enough to look like a steal....... just in case there was some nutjob out there who wanted to save me a bunch of time and money listing them all separately. After 2 days of getting frantic emails with offers to buy the 3 or 4 really desirable ones separately (like I didn't know what they were worth), I found my nutjob. I packed up 20 huge boxes.....my hands were black from all the newsprint used as packing material...my back ached. The UPS man showed up and I had made a quick strike....after fees and shipping, I made $600 for a week's work.
So that's juts a long way to say, if that camera collection were in the $5,000 to $10,000 range, I'd be sorting them as we speak. And yes, I am a little bit crazy. and maybe I'd keep 3 or 4 for myself. My wife kept her favorite toaster. I couldn't keep my favorite. It was worth a couple hundred.