RitmoBoricua wrote:To me the value and the price of something are two different things and ultimately the price of an item is the one that seller and buyer agree upon. Like the vintage set of walnut LP bongos I bought recently, the seller wanted $55.00 dollars and had them listed on craiglist for weeks until one day I decided to check out craiglslist around the area where my daughter goes to college because I go upthere often. When I saw the set I almost flipped I knew I had to have them. I knew the value of the set was more than $55.00 dollars but the seller and buyer (myself) agreed that the price of the bongos for our transanction was $55.00. Right now I could turn around that very same set and sell it with a good profit margin; but is not going to happen because this vintage LP bongo sets have a lot of sentimental value to me.
leedy2 wrote:I have seen used bongos that have gone up for sale and mind that it was a toy not a real bongos $3000.00 just because it belonged to Ringo Starr.There is a photo of Marlow Brando around of him playing a Vergara set of bongos ,that bongos went a an auction house in NY for $10.000.00
windhorse wrote:The best musicians in Cuba play hand made boxes and really shoddy drums, compared to collectors here in the states, but they are completely happy to make that duct-taped head thump out the rhythm right alongside all the poor folk singing and dancing through the night.
mikemorgon wrote:hi,i want to buy a new insturment ,so please give me the information of good instrument ,Which instument is the best so u can give me the advice of every instrument.and how are method use to purchase .
bongosnotbombs wrote:Vintage is always worth less, because it is used, used is used, and it is not new. You never can get back the investment that you put into an instrument, ever, that is just the way it is. $600 for an old used bongo? No way, better deals exist for the same bongo every day. Why would I pay $450 for a bongo someone paid $200 for, used, that new went for $375? Just wait a while and you will get a similar deal. Deals happen in this global economy every day. I bought a 30 year old Valje bongo for $150. I bought a practically new SOS in cherry wood for $275. I got a 40 year old Valje tumba for $250. Old and used is not Brand new and never will be. I'm very happy for Jaun to restore that Requena, and I hope he keeps it forever, but over a thousand dollars? Two thousand? Seriously? Never! A rumbero pay that much for a requinto? Most rumberos I know can't rub 2 dimes together. No offense to Senor Juan and his beautiful and fantastic drum. As P.T. Barnum would say, a sucker born every minute, but the smart musician knows bongos and congas never appreciate in value. Just the way it is man...
bongosnotbombs wrote:Like PT Barnum, sucker born every minute!
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