Just a helpful tip, the sizes of the drums should be advertised and nix the video. It does nothing to help the sale and is a bit disturbing with the rack tom sliding around on top of the bass. Besides that, I think the price is fair but the market is down. If he wants to sell it, have him chop a couple of hundred off the price.

dave

Handle the sale yourself. Sell on Craigslist in Erie, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to broaden your area and agree to drive up to an hour to meet the seller. And drop the price to $1,100 for the drums. That should help :)

The snare drum is the Artist model is it a solid shell or a 3 ply model ? take a pic of the shell interior with the top head off for us to see. big difference in price if it's a solid shell model.

Like others have said, the price is way over what current market value, which I'd place at around $800. Among vintage US-made vintage drums, Slingerland are the least valued (some would say undervalued, but that's a whole other discussion), and since the seller doesn't bother taking a shot of the ride, crash, and hi-hat cymbals and their stamps (more about that below), it's difficult to determine whether the cymbals add any value or are just more crap that whomever buys these will have to dispose of somehow..

The photos are absolutely terrible, and I'm not talking about focus or lighting, but rather composition, as the drums in the "master shot" are not set up properly and are posed in front of what appears to be a storage locker. Situated as they are among poorly placed accessories, the whole thing looks like a load of clutter that someone just bought for cheap at a storage locker auction, and the seller is another one of those Storage Wars a$$hats looking to "strike it rich". The video is equally as useless.

The "detail" shots show one right thing (the Slingerland badge) but the rest are all the wrong things like sticks, cymbal bags, drum cases (which looks like there are more cases than drums) - things utterly irrelevant to someone interested in a 50-year drum kit.

The response given to the question about drum size - "..Mounted Tom - 13" x 10" Snare - 15" x 6 1/4" Floor Tom - 17" x 17" Bass - 20 3/4" x 16"..", reveal the seller to be utterly clueless as to what he is selling, which casts doubt on the whole enterprise since one cannot believe what they are being told about a particular thing if the person doing the telling has no idea as to what they are talking about.

And that, my friends, is why these haven't sold.

Seriously... concentrate focus on the "Kit"... Away from the vast array of odd mismatched covers and accessories. If he feels that he must do a video?. Then have the kit tuned up properly and hire an actual drummer to do the demo...

It does sound really bad...

And throw all of those broken cymbals into the rubbish bin...

Cheers

John

Maybe browse around our own For Sale section to get a better idea of the way to photograph the outfit, too....:)

Thanks everyone. I dont have access to the drums but i will pass along your suggestions and see if we cant help this sale.

JB

Bass drum looks to be painted white on the inside. That would be a deal killer for me if I was to pay retail.

Sell the cymbals separately...the ones with cracks won't have a lot of value.

Show the tom mounting hardware correctly.