Very very easy repairs , the parts are easily replaced with the correct ones Gary I don't know what the sale price was?

Gary - I don't see anything that can't be fixed easily. Which, by the way, is what -you- should do before putting it up for sale. You're only being picked apart because;

A. Everybody is looking for a bargain and an easy excuse to chew you down on the price.

B. The fewer the flaws, the less there is to pick apart.

That seam-lift is a fifteen minute repair. That problem will be gone! The edge is another quickie, a little glue, a clamp, little clean-up and good to go. I would do the small repairs, polish the pants off of everything, set it up ready to play and then put it up for sale. At the price you're asking for a Sky-Blue-Pearl keystone Jazzfest you won't have any problems finding buyers. Put it right first though.

Now that all this bad buzz surrounds the drum, it may already be jinxed this time around. Fix it, wait a bit and put it out again (without the obvious flaws and with full disclosure of the repairs.) You may have better luck when things cool down a little. Sounds like it's a 'topic of negative conversation' and that isn't going to help the sale. Wait, try again later.

John

why do people bother replying to this idiot anyway ?

Simple he is a valued member of the forum and he asked an honest question?

you took the words right out of my mouth. thank you, but i must add....

>>>why do people bother replying to this idiot anyway ?<<<<

because this "idiot" is our brother here at vdf and thats what we do when our brothers and sisters ask honest questions. if you dont want to help then shut up! jazzbo!

Right on Robyn! I agree totally! Jaghog is a good guy!

Gary, i agree with what John wrote, but i also don't see what the big fuse is over a cup'l minor fixxes. If i were in the market for another j-fest...i would buy this one as is.

Take Johns advise and see what happens later on.

What's so valuable about this recent post ? Did he graduate the 3rd grade ?

" Working like a dog and trying to Handel things off a phone sucks the obp drum went to a repeat customer jazz player in cal and well the rest is just bad luck out of all the years selling I never had issues like this and as far as punctuation you all can kiss my a&$ as I'm done with the bs here as to the accusations and just plain jerks here who think they have all the answers and I'm done trying to be a collector I have nothing to hide maybe my descriptions are not the best or pics, but I'll tell you the items are very nice and some people actually like them minus the so called experts who if I do sell in eBay will not b allowed to bid my auctions any ways so there.blew off steam , as far as it goes if rather burn them then sell to some excuse the frustrations but any one think there better at it please feel free to correct and grade me like school lol this suck , the crowd has changed to much here for me time to change venues tar care to all that I know from back when there are some real nice people here and they know who they are so do the rest .. "

Nice drum, nice guy...what's not to like?