to tell the truth
anything collectible
is only worth what a collector will pay.
saying that, I buy POS kettles, restore them about 50% and off then here. I do not make my money back, but i take great pride in knowing a collector has a good piece of weber history.
I have 4 kettles, my pride and joy is not a weber, it is a happy cooker, I can not tell you why we weber fans love happy cookers so much, but to tell the truth they actually cook better than a weber.
Now here is the problem, a few years back weber sold out, we will see the last of the American made webers soon. As They are going soon be all Chinese made. So if you want a quality weber. pick a few up. and also pic up some turn of the century gassers. The quality is about to go way down.