As some of you may know from my regular 'e-bay' and 'is this a good buy...' postings, I'm always asking your opinion on vintage kits that take my fancy (inevitably they cost way too much or slip out of my hands, but that's the way it is!). Anyway, from talking with US musicians on my gigging travels, I've learned that instruments tend to retail for less in the US than they do here in the UK. It seems this goes for second hand vintage stuff too. Exchange rate changes aside, I think a nice vintage Slingy for example, would cost a lot more in relative terms here than it would in the US. Granted, you have so many more of them, as they were made there, but you take the point.

I just wanted peoples thoughts, and indeed how forum users from other countries fare in the kit cost stakes.

This may sound crazy, but I wonder if anyone has the know-how to construct a table, with average US worth, Average Euro worth, Asia etc... It's all subjective, but there seems to be such a difference in what is perceived to be a good buy, that I thought I'd throw it out there for discussion.