drumhammerer
Silver Member
to me Ebay is still the king of used gear, although they're increasing fees, and poor treatment of the sellers has dramatically reduced the selection. Their feedback system is second to none, the photos and descriptions are generally really good, and if you get screwed you can let people know about it and get it resolved in their "court".
GC used seems to have a good selection of used gear, but it seems more like a pawn shop, with poor descriptions/photos, no way to really know the condition of the items, and the shipping costs are unknown until you actually check out, which I hate. They have some real low prices on some good stuff sometimes, but that's mostly because of ignorance, they hosed somebody they bought the gear from, or it's in real bad shape. Even though I've seen some things on there I wanted, I couldn't ever go through with it, and a lot of times I was able to find the same thing on ebay for a similar price, yet I knew more precisely what I was getting, and who was selling it. Personally, I still prefer going to a store (luckily I still have a good drum shop in a nearby city), but it's too far to drive for minor things, so I'm stuck with the online thing most of the time.
GC used seems to have a good selection of used gear, but it seems more like a pawn shop, with poor descriptions/photos, no way to really know the condition of the items, and the shipping costs are unknown until you actually check out, which I hate. They have some real low prices on some good stuff sometimes, but that's mostly because of ignorance, they hosed somebody they bought the gear from, or it's in real bad shape. Even though I've seen some things on there I wanted, I couldn't ever go through with it, and a lot of times I was able to find the same thing on ebay for a similar price, yet I knew more precisely what I was getting, and who was selling it. Personally, I still prefer going to a store (luckily I still have a good drum shop in a nearby city), but it's too far to drive for minor things, so I'm stuck with the online thing most of the time.