I was wondering how do you place value in terms of price when selling a moog for parts? I own a Moog (micromoog) (useless other than ability to power up) and was wondering how to set the price for sale?
Good question, I’m afraid I don’t have an answer, but see my pm.
If it is in good shape cosmetically, still has all its insides, and I wanted to buy a spare for parts I’d probably pay 40-50% what a functional unit would cost. I don’t know what $$$ they go for (I can’t find any recent auctions), but that’s my general price gauge for spares.
The value of a “parts” synth is driven by the value of its components. IE a non-working Prophet-5 can be scavenged of CEM or SSM ICs that haven’t been made in years and are near impossible to find. A dead Polymoog has a pair of ua726 ICs and TOS divider ICs that are valuable. So their parts value is high.
That’s not the case with the micromoog - other than the power regulator IC, switches, CA3080s, and pitch bend ribbon there is little of value in components. No rare ICs like SSM or CEM.
Too bad your Micro isn’t working. I love mine.
Good Luck.
Eric
I sometimes take in a non-working synth, fix it all up and sell it on Ebay for the owner.
I just don’t think you’re going to see a sale price that would justify the service costs (which are deducted, along with Ebay fees, etc.)
What’s the most anyone would pay for a Micromoog?
Then again, there’s some person on Ebay advertising just one Pratt-Read key for $29. At that extremely optimistic rate, you could get over $1000 for the whole synth.
MC’s right, the power supply regulator is pretty rare.
Used in other synths too, like the Taurus 1 pedals.
Personally I’d sell it as-is. A fixer-upper described honestly. Lots of pics.
There’s plenty of people that will see it as a challenge and want to buy it.
Perhaps a small bidding war will ensue.
400 at least, repair of these machines are not so expensive, when fixed they should do easily 600$
think sell as is with lots of pictures is good tip
repair of these machines are not so expensive
While $400 and $600 are absolutes, how badly an instrument may be broken is completely variable.
So are the talents and prices of techs.
Quality of tech work can vary hugely.
I know, for myself anyways, that I couldn’t fix up a Micromoog for $200.
There wouldn’t be any profit at all.
People often think because a synth is small, it shouldn’t cost much to fix.
But the opposite can often be true.
There are Micromoogs I’ve spent far more time on than say, a Jupiter 8.
It all depends on what’s wrong and who’s working on the instrument.
Not all repairs or techs are the same.
true,
in europe the micro’s go out for 650€ when oke , so maybe i should have stated a bit more careful indeed
^ True too ^
I’ve been shocked to see catalogs from the UK with prices.
They’ve always been way higher, even after dollar/pound conversion, than they are in the US.
I imagine some Europeans look at prices in the US as a bargain.
Probably the same way us in the US see prices in Australia- “Wow, what a bargain.. now how to get it here cheaply?”