JesusMySavior
Silver Member
At my local Guitar Center there was a blowout on acoustic drum sets. They had quite a few good bargains there and were liquidating them and making deals left and right to make room for floor space. Anyways I went there and spotted a PDP "FS" Birch kit in black cherry fade. The original price was crossed out and it was marked $199. Had the 10, 12, 14, 22, with original snare drum. The kit looked a little beat up, needed new heads, but they swore it came with the mounting hardware. I told them to reserve it for me while I looked around a bit. I also spotted a very nice condition Pearl Vision VBL in Concord Fade. This kit was beautiful and every tom I hit sang like a choir. Marked $299. This definitely had the hardware because I saw it laying there. It had no snare.
Long story short, they didn't have the hardware for the PDP kit and I offered them $150 on the kit; they willingly said ok. Of course this was a steal of a deal and I don't regret the price I paid for it. However they seemed very open to work with me on whatever I wanted due to my disappointment and now I almost wonder if the Pearl would have been the better kit if I could have got them to lower the price by $50 or so. I scored a generic double tom mount for $25 the PDP and am now on the hunt for a single tom mount for the floor tom for around $20. That brings the price back up to almost $200. A $50 difference between the two kits I think would have been well worth it.
Nothing I can do now as the Pearl kit is sold. But did I make the right choice? Are the PDP's on par with the Pearl's and vice versa? I listen to the Pearls on YouTube and man they sound heavenly. What's the construction difference and quality difference here? Did I severely miss out?
Help me to not be bummed here!
Long story short, they didn't have the hardware for the PDP kit and I offered them $150 on the kit; they willingly said ok. Of course this was a steal of a deal and I don't regret the price I paid for it. However they seemed very open to work with me on whatever I wanted due to my disappointment and now I almost wonder if the Pearl would have been the better kit if I could have got them to lower the price by $50 or so. I scored a generic double tom mount for $25 the PDP and am now on the hunt for a single tom mount for the floor tom for around $20. That brings the price back up to almost $200. A $50 difference between the two kits I think would have been well worth it.
Nothing I can do now as the Pearl kit is sold. But did I make the right choice? Are the PDP's on par with the Pearl's and vice versa? I listen to the Pearls on YouTube and man they sound heavenly. What's the construction difference and quality difference here? Did I severely miss out?
Help me to not be bummed here!