Pricing a Tama Swingstar - Help !

[ratamacue97]

Hello,
I am trying to help a relative sell a drumset to a friend for a 14 year old drummer. I was asked to figure out a fair price. I don't really have a clue, so I am posting the configuration

here in the hope that someone might know the value of this kind of stuff.

The set is in very good to excellent condition, only used in a family room. Purchased when the set was 2 years old in 2004. Heads and shells are in good shape, and the cymbals are not

cracked nor do they show any keyholing.

Tama Swingstar (Taiwan) - Solid Blue finish - the tag around the sound hole is a distorted oval shape
BD - 22 x 16
TT - 9 x 12 - 6 lugs
TT - 10 x 13 - 6 lugs
FT - 16 x 16 - 6 lugs - serial number = 02313A
Snare - chrome - serial number 021817
Snare - chrome - Tama Rockstar - 327736

Cymbals - ZBT+
HH - 14" medium
Crash - medium thin crash
Crash - 18"
Ride - 20" medium

Boom stand (for cymbal) - Tama
Boom stand (for cymbal) - Tama
HH stand - Tama
straight stand (for cymbal) - PDP
snare stand - unknown

Single BD pedal - Pearl P100
Double BD pedal by PDP
Throne - by PDP

Beato cases

[kuren84]

Check out ebay and other shops and get an idea of prices. look at kits that are in better condition and worse and work out a fair price. Good luck

[ratamacue97]

thanks for the feedback.
I've checked out ebay and craig's list in my area, but the range of pricing is crazy. I've seen $200-$1000. I don't know what ZBT+ cymbals are really worth. I know they are the cast bronze/lower grade cymbals, but I just don't have a good feel for how to price the package

[Mediocrefunkybeat]

Tama Swingstar by itself - new price is around $500. That means resale would be around $300. The cymbals you can probably add an extra $100-150 for. The hardware is worth probably around another $150-200. That makes around $600 for the package; which is reasonable. If it doesn't sell, you could lower the price. If you sold off the hardware individually there's a chance you could make more. The P-100 bass pedal alone could probably be sold for $50 or so. I don't know how much the cases are worth, but work on around 60% of the original price.

[ratamacue97]

Excellent information!
Thank you so much!

[Big_Philly]

Yeah, 600 for that package sounds about right. Drums and hardware combined will earn you 300~400 dollars depending on the buyers, I once sold a swingstar set for 300 euros including two cymbal stands, a hi hat stand, a snare stand and a cheap crash cymbal but no bass pedal.