With the holidays fast approaching, many people are searching for the best places to buy drums online. If you are interested in purchasing an electronic or acoustic drum set and have been endlessly searching Google in the hope of finding the best place to buy drums, we can help you!
It's essential to tell genuine reviews from the countless affiliate websites that make recommendations in exchange for commissions or high-ranking web pages that want to push their brand.
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If you are lucky enough to have a specialist drum shop in your area, we always recommend supporting them wherever possible and have written in detail about the benefits of this type of store. It's handy to go into a local drum shop, talk to sales professionals, see the options available, and make our purchasing decisions. The reality is, depending on your local Covid situation, that option might be limited or entirely off the cards. As such, the long-growing shift to online purchasing is even more of an attractive option - and for many people, the only option. The good news is that there are great places to buy drums online, and this article will help you identify them and guide you in conducting the right searches for the products you need.
Websites belonging to specialist drum stores.
Many specialist drum stores were struggling before the pandemic. While some adjusted well to online competition by launching their websites and thus expanding their sales territory, the sheer volume of competition and the inevitable price wars that ensued sadly forced many good establishments out of business. Unless we want to lose them altogether, we must continue to support them.
Therefore, as you would expect from a company that always champions the efforts of the independent retailer, we recommend that you search specialist drum stores. If there is one in your local area, that's even better because once we get into a post-Covid world (fingers crossed), there are still many advantages to buying local. Using broad search terms like "top drum stores in the USA" (or wherever your local area may be) will show you pages of results.
The first websites listed will usually be companies that have paid for the privilege of higher page placements, so it's always worth looking at the organic results later down the page, and even subsequent pages, where most independent retailers will more likely be featured. Again, if you are keen to support local businesses, a search like "drum shops near me" will give you more focused results. Remember that paid adverts are likely to appear at the top of the page and may not be local, even though your search was specific.
Amazon.
We've come to accept that just about anything can be found on Amazon. It's an excellent service, and as such, has become somewhat of a thorn in the side for the traditional music retailer. Nonetheless, it's a first-click resource for modern consumers. As you would expect, most items in the drum world can be found on Amazon, which is all very well if you know what you are searching for.
It is worth remembering that while many orders are fulfilled from independent retailers that have a presence on Amazon, most products are sold direct by Amazon themselves and shipped from their warehouses. Therefore, you must know precisely what you need, what is included, not included, and what useful additional extras to consider. While the "customers also bought these items" feature can be helpful, it's not a definitive guide to all of the things you need when making a drum set purchase. Also, as some product descriptions can be somewhat vague, it can be the recipe for an incomplete gift or disappointment when you realize that you don't have everything you need. This article is a good starting point to help understand the things you will need.
Affiliate websites.
We mentioned earlier in the article that many websites get paid for recommending specific products and services. These are known as affiliates. This is not necessarily something to be concerned with. Affiliate marketing is an accepted tool many companies use, and some excellent websites offer solid reviews and helpful information. You can generally identify them by the generic page titles, such as "Top drum brands of 2020" or "Best electronic drum sets under $1000." If you look at the homepage, or in some cases, the page's footer, there is usually a disclaimer advising you that they may be receiving payments or commissions for recommending products. Again, this is quite normal and nothing underhand, but certainly something to be aware of in the best interests of impartiality and objectiveness.
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