What is a fair price to pay for a used King 2280 Euphonium?

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:12 am

What woulb be a fair price to pay for a used King 2280 - Silver ?
It's 8 years old and in top conditon. It has very few stratches and only a couple of small " dings " . It has been sitting around unused for about 2 years . It will need to be cleaned out. Any opinions on this matter ?

pg · Post by pg » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:11 am

No more than $1500. No less that $1000.

No charge for this OPINION.

--paul;

CJ Krause · Post by **CJ Krause** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:14 am

Steve Inman · Post by **Steve Inman** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:55 am

I just purchased a well-used silver 2280 on eBay last week. My purchase price was just under $850. As you can see from the photos in the add (click on link below), I will have to do a little polishing, and probably invest $100 in some dent repair, to remove the obvious dings.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 53413&rd=1

So my actual investment in this horn will probably end up being about $1000.
Note: the "street value" of this horn, new, is about $1615, plus tax. So I suspect $1500 is the maximum reasonable price one should expect to pay for a "perfect" used one. (Yet with an auction, the seller may do better than one would expect. YMMV)

Here is another one currently FS on eBay, that is in better overall condition than the one I bought. You can monitor this link for the final selling price:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 27432&rd=1

HTH,