The first drum kit I ever bought I was totally ripped off. It was a premiere kit where there was no reasonant skin latches, the toms had holes in them, plus it had a set of trash can sounding Sonar cymbals that had no pitch to them.
He sold me it for 230 pounds. Looking back, (and back then 230 pounds went a lot further than it does today) I would have been embarrassed to sell that at any price. This guy was a professional drum dealer in a shop and he had a habit of taking families with kids who wanted to play drums to the most expensive stuff that wasn't suitable for children to learn. He was a total con man.
He sold me it for 230 pounds. Looking back, (and back then 230 pounds went a lot further than it does today) I would have been embarrassed to sell that at any price. This guy was a professional drum dealer in a shop and he had a habit of taking families with kids who wanted to play drums to the most expensive stuff that wasn't suitable for children to learn. He was a total con man.