Played a low-priced metal that played as well as a high-priced metal?

[G2_Jake]

That’s the biggest cost to me. I throw a lot of yo-yos away that could be sold as b grades, but I want them associated with G2.

Volume does help. Mostly with machining or if you use overseas ano. My anodizing doesn’t change price at all with volume.

[Exmime]

Those $5 Fools Gold CLYW YETI 2.0s play pretty great.

[anon19434144]

It’s like if a guy lives in the backwoods and goes to car dealer and wants a 4x4 pick up but the salesperson says he has a great deal on a nearly-new Jaguar…

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@andy569

Yoyos under $20 are basically all plastics, I would say the Replay Pro is the best sub $20 yoyo. There is a huge limitation to weight distribution capabilities of plastics vs metals. Any half-decently made metal, no matter how expensive or cheap, will perform better than basically any plastic.

Well… kinda. If you shop around you can get a metal MagicYoyo N12 Shark’s Honor for under $20, heck, I bought them in bulk once (long story) and got them under $10.

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@G2_Jake

I throw a lot of yo-yos away

Can you recycle them as Alu scrap? Do you literally mean “throw away”?

[Nocompromise]

I’m not completely clear on the question. There are certainly some yoyos that play above their price point. The Aviator 2 is absolutely amazing and can be found for around $20 on the BST. The Smoothie is probably the best all-around yoyo I’ve played and it’s relatively inexpensive for a bimetal. Yoyofficer makes some great budget bimetals.