A used ToneX is a serial number with a pedal attached. IK ties the software bundle to the serial and the serial to an account, so a seller who has not clicked Transfer in their User Area before the money moves has sold you a pedal that plays what is on it and nothing more. We would walk. The ones that do transfer sell for about €100 (the One) and €190 (the Pedal), roughly 35% and 40% under new, and there are more of them for sale than of almost anything else on the site.
Licence · What to pay · What to check
The licence, first
What IK's own transfer page says, read on 17 September 2026 (the page): the seller opens User Area, then My Products, then the pedal, notes the serial number and clicks Transfer, which removes it from their account; the buyer then registers that serial in IK Product Manager. Owners of the TONEX Pedal and the TONEX ONE do not need a License Transfer Credit; IK names both pedals on the list of hardware that is exempt. The page is also explicit that the old owner keeps no copy of the software afterwards, so a careful seller deauthorises the software on their own machines in Product Manager before clicking Transfer, and a careful buyer asks them to.
What travels with the serial is the bundle IK lists for each pedal today: the Pedal comes with TONEX MAX, TONEX Editor and AmpliTube 5; the One with TONEX SE, TONEX Editor and AmpliTube 5 SE. A used One registered by its second owner in January 2025 came with TONEX SE and AmpliTube 5 SE, which is that bundle.
Then the confusion, which still ranks above IK's page in a search. In 2023 the rule was different: a used ToneX Pedal needed a USD 20 License Transfer Credit, there was a 90-day wait after the first registration, and the bundled TONEX MAX stayed with the first owner. Forum threads from that year say so, and sellers repeat them. IK's transfer page today says none of it for the two pedals: no credit, and no waiting period is stated. IK's Japanese-language material and some older threads still talk about credits. The English page is the one IK maintains, and if it says something else on the day you read this, it wins over this paragraph. The rule that survives every version of the policy is the same: confirm the seller has clicked Transfer, then pay.
Three things IK's page lists as not transferable: free promotional items, Custom Shop purchases made with Gear Credits, and a licence that has already been transferred once. That list is written for software; the pedal's hardware serial is the thing that moves. If you are buying from a second owner, ask IK support before paying whether the bundle comes with it, and keep the answer.
When the seller has vanished, there is a rescue, not a plan: IK support has re-registered used Ones for buyers who sent a scan of the receipt and photos of the top and underside of the pedal, one of them in a day.
Two listings from this week, both ToneX Pedals, both from the UK. On Reverb, €220 seen 15 September: "I unregistered this pedal from my IK account, so you can register this pedal to your IK account and download the ToneX Max software." That seller has done the work. On eBay, €233 seen 12 September: "software registration/activation status has not been verified; bundled software licences are not guaranteed." Same pedal, €13 more, and what you would be buying is the hardware and a support ticket.
What to pay
Figures below are typical used prices from recorded sales as of 17 September 2026, in EUR. USD/GBP are the same typical at today's ECB rate, not a separate median. The live number, window and sample live on the product page.
The ToneX One sells around €100 (155 sales in the last 90 days; most sold between €95 and €110), and has 1,321 recorded sales in two years at €110. Around 130 are for sale at any time, asking a median of about €155 which is more than a new one costs at Thomann (€149 on 16 September): half the asks for a used One are above the new price, the sales are a third under it, and that gap is where a patient buyer lives.
The ToneX Pedal sells around €190 (117 sales in the last 90 days; most sold between €180 and €220), with 1,296 recorded sales in two years at €210. Around 220 are for sale, asking a median of about €310 against €322 new: the same story one size up.
On both pedals the asking median sits close to 60% over the sale median, the widest ask-to-sale gap of anything these guides cover, and only about one live listing in ten is priced under the typical. Nobody is competing for the overpriced ones. Offer the typical and wait.
We do not yet have enough listings watched from listing to sale to say how fast either moves, so no days-to-sell is printed. The Cab, the Plug, the Bass Editions, the One+ and the signature Ones are separate products with their own pages and their own prices; none of them is "a ToneX" for the purposes of the numbers above.
The snapshots below are live. For how a recorded sale differs from an ask and how the typical is built, read how Doirado prices gear; for the same trap on a bigger unit, the Quad Cortex guide; if you are choosing between a ToneX and a Stomp, the HX Stomp guide.
Live market snapshot: IK Multimedia ToneX One
Live market snapshot: IK Multimedia ToneX
Typical used €100, the middle of 146 sales, last 90 days. Each card compares to its condition where eight sales carry it, to that figure otherwise.
Reverb
What to check on the unit
- Transfer already clicked. A screenshot of the seller's My Products with the serial gone, or the transfer email, before money moves.
- The serial is not sitting on another account. "Never registered it" is either true, in which case you register it yourself, or the reason the pedal is cheap.
- The power supply and the box, if the listing claims them.
- The software follows the account, not the pedal. The editor, the tone model library and firmware updates run through the account that owns the serial; until it is yours, the pedal plays what is on it.
- A "new in box" One far under typical is a listing to open, not a deal to celebrate. The typical is on the product page, with its sample.