Hmmm… This is not meant for oops specifically, but response to that concern. I’m going to inject some perspective here. It’s not what a lot of people want to hear, but you guys never get that from me anyway, so here goes.
Once upon a time, there was a company that was making it’s first plastic. All the kids pressured the company with, “is it ready yet,” and “why is it taking so long,” type questions. Instead of holding onto the idea for a few years, and keeping people waiting, the plastic was released. After giving the kids what they wanted when they wanted it, a few complained that their string was eaten by the plastic. No one reports the brand of string eaten, so who knows what they are using, poly, nylon, blend, thick, thin, homemade…anyone’s guess. A few kids began to bash the company, who did nothing more than try it’s best, on it’s first time out with plastics, to give them what they wanted. 99% of the kids were happy and enjoyed the plastic, but 1% were like a sqeaky wheel about minor issues they had with the plastic. No good deed goes unpunished, and if I were that company, I might not be as receptive to giving people what they want when they want it in the future. Make them wait, quality control the heck out of the product, and tease them instead.
People who never made or sold a thing in their lives may never grasp this. But, multi million dollar corporations spend large budgets on testing, and inspecting products before they are released. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can be tested to ensure that it will perform as expected in every possible imaginable situation. So, when you see product recalls, updates, advisories issued by companies…that’s business. It does not necessarily have anything to do with the quality of the business, or the product, or the idea. There is an inability to test a product in every possible situation. In the process of thousands and millions of people buying and using the product, issues may arise that had not revealed themselves during testing. You heard about it with the Iphone, from Apple, and a lot of the top companies in the world.
Testers of Yetis are not throwing them with every possible string type imaginable, especially your homemade string. A great manufacturer will offer you a resolution, if a problem, even in a few instances, should arise. Try not to take a few problems, (problems you have no idea what contributed to them), and make a general presumption about the quality of the product. People with string issues usually never tell you the brand of string, what type, or how long it was played before it broke. Telling CLYW that would help pinpoint the issue. But, that might be too helpful, or determine a user error instead. Someone uses cheap string, doesn’t change their string and so on. You never know.
If it is a product that appeals to you, borrow one, try it, or buy it, and form your own opinion. There are a few squeaky wheels about every product, but remember that their experience may not be your own.