Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

to extend Francis' point, it should be sold listings rather than just completed listings-completed listings may show the price someone hoped to sell it for but no one was willing to pay! also you've not mentioned your location, which would affect the kind of prices you could expect but I'm based in the uk so I will be talking about £ not $.

I just looked on eBay myself. looking at only fully functional ones, which may have some cosmetic damage like fader caps missing, chipped keys, no LCD backlight. the prices vary from £150 to £250. but the best looking of the lot only sold for £180 so it's not necessarily the better the quality the better the price, it's the luck of the auction. you could easily just put it on at a fixed price.

personally I use eBay a lot, both buying and selling. I buy broken synths, repair them, use them for a while then sell most of them. my own experience of selling via local ads has been bad, with people wasting my time or agreeing a price in the phone then trying to haggle the price so low it's not worth selling, plus there's no protection for buyer or seller. I had items that were almost sold a number of times that fell through. put them on eBay and they sell for more money than I had been trying to get and I don't get haggling or time wasters. so yeah my 2 cents is I find eBay a lot less hassle.

 eBay is easy provided you stick to some basic rules before you sell. do a full test of every function, be 100% honest about any functional or cosmetic defects you discover, take good photos of the good bits AND defects, package items properly and use a high quality courier. the buyer can only complain if an item is not as you described. if you described it accurately and packaged it so won't get damaged in shipping then there won't be problems.

the commission is not much either. a quick test of £180 with £20 shipping would leave you with £152.35 after paying both eBay and PayPal fees, about 15%. but being on eBay opens you up to many more potential customers than doing it locally, so you could sell it to someone in not just a different part of your country but also internationally if you wanted.




On 31 May 2014, at 16:20, "Francis Cote francis.cote@spadz.com [CZsynth]" <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi,

Search ebay for completed sales.
Gives an estimate. Expect a bit less on local ads, but also less problems as the buyer can inspect it. Plus, on ebay you need to pay commission,  Paypal and so on. So it comes roughly about the same.

That's my 2 cents.

Francis
> On May 31, 2014 11:16 AM, "jimmcrae71@... [CZsynth]" <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>  
> Hi all,
> looks like I'm going to have to reluctantly sell my CZ1 that has been my pride and joy since around 1986. With most things that you sell you can get indicators from the various marketplaces as to what price you should be setting - but there just aren't enough CZ1s sold to give any indication!
> 
> Can anybody give an estimate of how much a good condition Cz1 should be offered for? Or indeed any of the other CZ synths to use as a benchmark? I've not bought a keyboard since 1986, so apart from one brief period of dismay when I realised how much my old Korg MS10 would have been worth if I'd kept it, I've completely lost track of buying/selling prices for everything.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Jim