Considering resale when buying. Is it a factor?

[Jules]

This is potentially less of factor when you are buying stock drums, perhaps, but when you are buying new drums, how much thought do you give the potential resale value? I may poll the jury depending on the variety of answers.

[Jack]

I don't... because I basically never get rid of gear. It just has to pass the justification of use test for me. I think resale potential (or lack of ...) is more of a consideration for custom orders/gear.

[drummermark]

I've never really taken resale value into consideration with any of my drum purchases. In the moment, it's something that I really want and plan to keep for a very long time. It had been almost 20 years between my last kit and current kit purchases so I tend to hold on to gear until I get to a point where I haven't regularly used it in a few years.