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Re: [Simmons Drums] Re: Ludicrous Asking Price

2009-12-17 by Jonathan McSorley

The owner may well be a member, but the price is unjustified. Years ago, when I gave up music I had a hard time facing the reality of the prices that electronic equipment had dropped. You used to save and sweat for this gear but nowadays most of it is worth a fraction of the price you paid. Its the same with computers. I had a SGI computer and screen that cost well over £15,000 when new nowadays it is worthless. I wouldn't even bother putting it on ebay just use it for running charts and doing some server work. Simmons gear has a special place in all our hearts. Even though it would be far cheaper to get a set of mesh drum heads and a really good computer/sampler, I still drool at the SDX. At least guitarists know that there is a good chance the wood in a swamp ash Suhr guitar may never be available again.
 

--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Ed <edrose1@...> wrote:

From: Ed <edrose1@...>
Subject: [Simmons Drums] Re: Ludicrous Asking Price
To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 4:15 AM







 



  


    
      
      
      I wrestled with posting something about this when I saw it in fear that the owner may be a member of the board.



Thanks for breaking the ice.



Man, that is absolutely crazy. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for seeing the value of Simmons gear rise - but a starting bid of $2500 and a 'buy it now' of $2900? Wow.



On the other hand, $2900 is a pittance compared to the $6500 he dropped on it initially.



Happy shopping!



--- In Simmons_Drums@ yahoogroups. com, "monzarottie" <roger.davis@ ...> wrote:

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> I about shot my beer out my nose when I saw the asking price for this

> kit. Wow, they're delusional.  I hope I haven't offended anyone here :-)

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