Oh, certainly!

Most of my overpayment was for hardware pieces that I needed to complete a kit. I have paid $100.00 for a $50.00 stand many times. Things like that. Luckily, I have paid fair-to-low prices for the drum kits I own, though. So, it all kind of balances out in the end. If I paid $100.00 for a $50.00 stand, I also paid $5.00 for a mint condition gold sparkle Pioneer! See what I mean? It's all about the "Gestalt"!

$115 for spurs that I had to have.

$125 for a half set of T's for a kit I needed to finish.

$675 for a Radio King Snare. All the original parts were there and it was in good shape to start a restoration.

Sometimes it's a buyers market and sometimes it's not.

$300 for an 18" amber Vistalite floor tom missing the muffler and a rim, and I'm not even putting together a Bonham kit. LOL

Well there was this Vespe cocktail drum in the window of a pawn shop I frequent that had Rogers floor tom leg mount hardware on it. One day I go by and the drum is gone. So I'm bummed because I wanted and needed that leg hardware. So later I got back and found the drum had just been taken out of the window so somebody could look at. I got jumpy and gave $150 for the darn thing.. it's kind of a piece of crap... but I did get the leg hardware.

Geez.. basically I paid $50 a piece for 3 Rogers leg mounts and Rogers thumb screws, what the heck was I thinking???

Right at a grand for a Slingerland 80N Buddy Rich kit (without any stands). It was not what I drove to Dallas to pick up. I went there for two Ludwig Standard kits and a Ludwig Big Beat in Blue Oyster and a Fibes Clear Acrylic kit. One Standard kit had a damaged floor. The other red strata had faded to a puke pink color. The blue oyster was a muted bowling ball color and the clear kit had cracks. I was so depressed. I saw the Slingerland kit and fell in love with it. They didn't move an inch on the price. That really bugged me. But, I drove over five hours for some vintage drums and I wasn't leaving without a kit. So I loaded them into the car. All in all, it turned out to be a nice kit. Expensive as heck, once you factor in all of the hardware and stands and such...but nice.

Not horrible, but (I think) like $275 for a 14x24 Slingerland bass just for 10 t-rods, 10 claws, and a (non-matching) hoop. Got sick of looking for the pieces individually. Of course, like 2 weeks later I saw another same-sized bass drum with the same hardware for $100...booooooooooooooooooo!

Troy

"...But what item have you overpaid for just because you had to have it?"

Many snare drums...

Mike Curotto

I paid $800NZD for a 28" ludwig & ludwig bass drum with paint lake scene head various traps and a incomplete early 30's beverelly england snare drum. That's about $500USD so probably a bit too much.

I paid $1400 for a rosewood teardrop 13,16,20. Got caught up in ebay bidding. Wonderful drums though, in great condition. Like others have said though, it offsets things like the 1928 10 lug black beauty I got for $50.