Worth, value, rarity……
Is a Citizen ‘worth’ $1500? Well, if that is the yo-yo you live to acquire and you have the Cheddar, than maybe it is.
Should the Citizen be valued at $1500? Combine the factors of it being a very good yoyo and somebody might ‘want it’ really bad……than maybe it is?
Should ‘rarity’ dictate the value to that price point? ($1500). Well, if you love having low production Titanium yo-yos that are designed and made to play very well. And…. Knowing that others may beat you to it and add it to their collection instead of yours…… perhaps it is.
My mindset is that when people want soooooo much for an amazingly rare and excellent playing yo-yo that would be such a gem to possess, why are they willing to unload it instead of just keeping it, lol. (Other than needing money and such).
I sold my Citizen to one of the forum members because he had been looking for one for some time. He had one when they were first released but faded out on yo-yos and sold it. He regretted it since then and seemed compelled to eventually get another.
I knew that might take some time, so I contacted him and sold mine to him for about $100 over what I paid.
I can’t read too much into a persons’ actual intentions. For all I know, the guy could have been a bounty hunter for someone else looking for one. <just looking for somebody like me who likes a good story?
I try to match the guy with the yo-yo he seeks. And just play it on a case by case basis.
I can’t feel ‘regret’ for grails I have solved for people. I just figure if I feel somebody will get a lot more out of a certain yo-yo than me, that is just how things may work out in their favor.
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time if somebody gives me an amazingly sad tearjerking story and I sell them one of my prize yo-yos for peanuts. And then I’ll probably find out a couple days later that he sold it to a collector for a couple thousand. It’ll turn out the guy that I sold a yo-yo to was not an end user but was just a guy that hunted stuff down for other people he gets paid well to do it. It happens more often than you think. Anything to make a buck… no law against it, lol.
I can’t let that bother me. Like benmichael86 said some time ago, ‘We all take turns trying to help each other’.
PS… I have no regrets about selling my Citizen. But, that being said, the Citizen I sold was #21.
So, if you guys ever see that up for sale for a Big/Chunk/a/Change, that would certainly give my story a lot more depth, lol.
are we looking at the same photos? There’s more gouges than YoYo.
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