He could have been looking for beat to hell yoyos.
yeeeaaahh. someone offered two summits for a yeti at my yoyo clubā¦ its ridiculous. the yoyo is great no doubt but at the end of the day itās still a plastic yoyo. they do have great trading value
Give up Two Summits or Pay 70ish for a Yeti? Hmmm.
the yeti was damaged and was bought for $45ā¦
Two Summits for a damaged Yeti. It was already bad. But thatās horrible.
One of the worst trades Iāve ever heard about.
lol yeah but thats why i wanna stock up on yetis haha
Yea thats a bad deal.
lol @ a price increase. Please defend that with numbers. Each successive run should be working off initial tooling and mold costs, so in that way the more that are sold the better for you guys. Packaging, small parts, and materials canāt be more than $15 per yoyo, throw in a hefty chunk of profit, say $15 per yoyo, another $10 per yoyo in production costs at most, now weāre at $40, but ya gotta pay someone to sand and tune the yoyos, because apparently thatās such a laborious and complicated process, letās say you only get 5 done an hour per worker, how much should they make, i dunno, $20 an hour seems generous, so thatās another $4 per yoyo, so weāre at $44, add another $11 for who knows what, rejects and a smidgen more profit i guess, and weāre at $55, which is expensive, but as iāve said previously a price iām willing to pay because it is a fun yoyo. Just really seems crazy to need to charge even more, and the fact that you guys arenāt selling the rejects as FGs to recoup some costs boggles my mind.
You guys need to throw 5 halves and a pile of parts in a box and sell it for $75. No sanding, no shaving, no tuning, buyer takes all the risks, mixes and matches and cleans up the pieces as they want and hopefully end up with one perfect Yeti and another perfect to just ok Yeti, and CLYW literally has to do nothing except pump the halves out and dump them in a box. Canāt think of a reason you guys arenāt doing this. The current way the Yeti is being manufactured and sold is just terrible and there seems to be a lot of room to improve the process for CLYW and buyers.
Rant overā¦
Youāve got it all figured out. You should start a yoyo company. 
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A) They donāt need to defend anything with numbers. Itās not a publicly traded company that has to show investors their financial stats.
B) I like how your entire argument of the āPackaging, small parts, and materials canāt be more than $15 per yoyoā is an arbitrary number you have completely made up out of the blue.
C) I donāt typically fight or rant or ever feel the need to defend a company or their products on these boards, but clearly the Yeti isnāt for you. Some of us (myself included) have greatly enjoyed the CLYW Yeti. I have multiple Yetis and I anticipate purchasing another 1 or 2 in different colors. I donāt need them. I didnāt need the first or second Yeti I purchased, but Iāve enjoyed the Yeti enough that I feel it warrants another purchase or two. For those of us that enjoy the Yeti and are looking forward to more, thanks, CLYW. For those of you not interested in the Yeti or CLYW we get it. Stop flaming, thereās no point entering a thread to spread anger.
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I like they way you guyās are doing it. I mean it would be kinda fun to try and assemble and tune my own Yeti but Iām afraid I would screw it up so Iām much happier buying them pre-assembled.
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I can be sassy about it all I want but really what it boils down to is CLYW has employees and a team and we sponsor a ton of contests and these things cost money. So built in to the price of every single return top we sell is the price of all those other things we do. And when a return top turns out to be WAY more work than we anticipated, that means that the price has to go up. It has nothing to do with the hard material costs, and everything to do with labor and shipping and additional shipping to a second location to have secondary labor do the work and the cost of that secondary labor and blah blah blah.
Bottom line is we only charge what we have to. If thatās more than you are willing to pay, thatās totally cool. The Yeti is still the most affordable thing in our line, but if itās not your jam weāre ok with that. We arenāt going to judge you for how you choose to spend your money, and weāre not going to get mad about you judging us for how we run our company.
Weāre just gonna keep doing it, and hope that people get it and appreciate it and support what weāre trying to do. So far, there are enough of those for us to keep doing things the way we want. And there are a ton of other companies that probably make something to your liking, so youāre all set.
All good. 
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I paid $65 for a Black Yeti almost a year ago. I love it. Iāve owned up to four yetis at once and currently the only yoyo I own is that black yeti.(And some stuff it need to sell but that doesnāt count) Iwould honestly pay $65 for another one of the black yetis that donāt play as well as the other ones.(And some stuff it need to sell but that doesnāt count)
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Having players sand their own yoyos would be a terrible idea. That kind of thing only works in modeling hobbies like RC.
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Yoyoing: Spoonfed babies club.
Never heard of modder fodder? I personally think offering reject or unassembled parts in small kits would be neat.
People donāt. They buy yoyos for preference, not performance.
Whyā¦? Also i never said to sell everyone like that, just to make it an option to allow CLYW to release thousands of Yetis and let people take responsibility for assembling their own yoyos.
The only real precaution I could think of is to make the parts distinct enough that they canāt be later mistaken or sold as actual Yetis, but still keeping /that/ process of marking them cheap enough to justify doing.
Well said uncle steve Iām a huge fan of clyw family and appreciate all you guys have done for the sport and am looking forward to guys continuing to thrive. (If that makes sense Iām really tired haha)
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Kids will buy them thinking theyāre getting a great deal, totally screw them up, and complain to CLYW. More trouble then its worth. If you really want some reject halfs, you could try asking them directly.