IMO, $300 is too much unless you are buying for yourself. These are great drums, but as someone already said, they're just not in demand. I love these drums, and at one point I thought I wanted to just specialize in them. I have bought, refurbed/repaired (and sometimes even rewrapped), and resold a lot of these as well as their all-fiberglass siblings. The resale value just is NOT there...As for the Pearl Presidents (1969 era), I beg to differ with the info in the above post. Unless those mentioned were some sort of special order, they were NOT wood-fiberglass. The Presidents of that era were either all wood or their short-lived "phenolic" shells, which were the precursor to Pearl's FG shells of the 70s. Those shells were thicker (than the FG shells) and either a dark brown or dark maroon in color. They were available in 1969 and 1970, and then started showing up again in the late 70s primarily as concert toms and the vari-pitch drums Pearl briefly offered.I don't doubt the resale value of these as mentioned above, because the Pearl Presidents like these were only produced 2 or maybe three years and the finished mentioned is very rare and hard-to-find now. I'm sure there are people looking for them, and most would be willing to pay a good price for them! But not the wood-fiberglass ones...

IMO, $300 is too much unless you are buying for yourself. These are great drums, but as someone already said, they're just not in demand. I love these drums, and at one point I thought I wanted to just specialize in them. I have bought, refurbed/repaired (and sometimes even rewrapped), and resold a lot of these as well as their all-fiberglass siblings. The resale value just is NOT there...As for the Pearl Presidents (1969 era), I beg to differ with the info in the above post. Unless those mentioned were some sort of special order, they were NOT wood-fiberglass. The Presidents of that era were either all wood or their short-lived "phenolic" shells, which were the precursor to Pearl's FG shells of the 70s. Those shells were thicker (than the FG shells) and either a dark brown or dark maroon in color. They were available in 1969 and 1970, and then started showing up again in the late 70s primarily as concert toms and the vari-pitch drums Pearl briefly offered.I don't doubt the resale value of these as mentioned above, because the Pearl Presidents like these were only produced 2 or maybe three years and the finished mentioned is very rare and hard-to-find now. I'm sure there are people looking for them, and most would be willing to pay a good price for them! But not the wood-fiberglass ones...