[jimbones]

Hi I have a pair of H Frame 12x2 GR Research Suns I am going to sell. They come with the 2 A370PEQ amps. Finished in a beautiful Tineo veneer. Not sure of what fair pricing would be. Any suggestion are appreciated. Note: I would post pics but the site wont allow

[jmimac351]

Jimbones, is this a picture of one of them?  It's in your gallery.  If you go into your gallery and right click on the image, then select "copy image address"... you can click on the camera icon when making a post.  Paste the image address in between the image text symbols with no spaces and it will show up.  If you want, I can post the rest of them.  Happy to help.

As for pricing... I would start at 75% of regular price, and go from there.  If I get something for 50%-65% of retail I feel like I got a fair deal.  Same for selling. For some things... it varies.  Ultimately it's like anything else...

"Whatever the market will bear"

[Early B.]

A flatpack for a single sub is $1660, so double that is $3,300. This could be a starting point for determining what to charge. Anything less than that and you're practically giving them away. Of course, none of that includes labor and materials costs which are substantial, but for DIY, we don't expect to recoup much of that.  The buyer is likely someone who doesn't already own a pair of these subs and they'll have to decide between DIYing or buying them used. If I were in the market, I'd gladly spend $3,500 or a bit more to buy them, but they would have to be a local sale. If you're considering building crates and putting them on a pallet to ship them, that's a huge additional cost. However, if you're only going to offer local pick-up, then you're severely limiting your audience and they should be priced accordingly (i.e., insanely low).

These are the holy grail for subwoofers, so why are you selling them?

 

[Glady86]

A flatpack for a single sub is $1660, so double that is $3,300. This could be a starting point for determining what to charge. Anything less than that and you're practically giving them away. Of course, none of that includes labor and materials costs which are substantial, but for DIY, we don't expect to recoup much of that.  The buyer is likely someone who doesn't already own a pair of these subs and they'll have to decide between DIYing or buying them used. If I were in the market, I'd gladly spend $3,500 or a bit more to buy them, but they would have to be a local sale. If you're considering building crates and putting them on a pallet to ship them, that's a huge additional cost. However, if you're only going to offer local pick-up, then you're severely limiting your audience and they should be priced accordingly (i.e., insanely low).

These are the holy grail for subwoofers, so why are you selling them?

 

 I was thinking the same, may be hard to sell locally unless you get lucky.

[jmimac351]

Selling used items for the price paid new?  Holy cow, I am surrounded by Jedi Masters doing mind tricks.  I have been doing this wrong... fortunately others do it wrong too because I buy for way less than new.

[Glady86]

Selling used items for the price paid new?  Holy cow, I am surrounded by Jedi Masters doing mind tricks.  I have been doing this wrong... fortunately others do it wrong too because I buy for way less than new.

I’d never try to sell my own DIY efforts. All the time spent building it and especially a high quality build should be worth something I’d think. If you hire a professional to build one of these kits you’ll pay a lot more than just the kit cost.

 Also most already built audio gear is overpriced to start with so I wouldn’t pay full retail price even if it’s new!

[Early B.]

Selling used items for the price paid new?

The "new" price is only for the kit. The cost of labor and additional materials to build out the subs are at least equivalent to the kit cost, so a more practical "new" cost is about $7,000 per pair. If these subs were sold retail, they'd be north of $12K/pair.

[Glady86]

The price for completed speakers at GR Research are more than double the cost of the kit.

[g3rain1]

It would really depend on how well it's put together. I would agree that the kit cost is a good starting point and would only consider going lower if you somehow botched the build. For most armature builds Id say stating at or slightly above that would be fair. A master builder like Mike Lundy could easily charge 2 to 3 or more times kit cost however.

Hi I have a pair of H Frame 12x2 GR Research Suns I am going to sell. They come with the 2 A370PEQ amps. Finished in a beautiful Tineo veneer. Not sure of what fair pricing would be. Any suggestion are appreciated. Note: I would post pics but the site wont allow

It's some kind of forum bug. I can't upload pictures sometimes either. I've spoken to AC admins about it but it seems the don't know how to resolve it either.  You can use an external image host like imgur.com to upload and then just use the auto generated links it gives you to post here.

[jimbones]

Thanks for the info all. Ill see if I can post in classified.

[Danny Richie]

You can email me some pics and I'll post them for you.

[jimbones]

Will Do thanks

[jimbones]

It would really depend on how well it's put together. I would agree that the kit cost is a good starting point and would only consider going lower if you somehow botched the build. For most armature builds Id say stating at or slightly above that would be fair. A master builder like Mike Lundy could easily charge 2 to 3 or more times kit cost however.
 It's some kind of forum bug. I can't upload pictures sometimes either. I've spoken to AC admins about it but it seems the don't know how to resolve it either.  You can use an external image host like imgur.com to upload and then just use the auto generated links it gives you to post here.

The cabinets themselves (and veneer) were built by a pro cabinet maker.