Thanks John, One last question to you all, does it hurt the value if a collector has replacement parts on it, the reason I ask is there is a Radio King student model on eBay that looks killer, except has replacement parts, for 165. Just curious. Again, Thanks for the advise, to all. Bucky
As mentioned above original is always better but in your price range those details are much less important than on higher end stuff. A $150 snare drum with a newer version of the throw off (say a P-85 in place of the original P-83) or some replacement rods is still probably worth $150. Perhaps it would be worth a bit more if the P-83 were still there but not a lot. Originality comes into play a lot more on things like old Black Beauties and other high end offerings where missing or replaced (newer) parts can seriously effect the value making a $2K snare into a $1.5K snare or whatever. Lots more range to work with on the higher end stuff, cheaper stuff probably only varies ten or twenty bucks at most. An exception might be a rewrapped drum which can cause a more sizeable hit but even then it's going to be a smaller dollar amount change than if done to a more expensive drum.
