Perhaps we can have someone that owns both compare the playability and see whether the Ti Vayder is worth the additional $15 or not?
EDIT: apparently there is contention on whether or not the Ti-Yo was $125 or not. I wasn’t around for its release so maybe someone can chime in on that.
I have the Ti Hawk and DR and love how they play and look, but most every Ti I own is excellent IMO. I know some don’t agree with all of my choices, but I also don’t like some of the ti out there either. It sounds like he made enough to go around, so go by others feedback next week, or do what I do and buy it when available and make your own opinion and if you don’t like it unload it later.
Even if everybody bought 2, I think it takes a significant amount of time to sell even to 250 different customers. Sure $140 is an awesome price, but a lot of people don’t even have $140 to spend on a yoyo. I think the boutique yoyo companies with small drops have kind of given the impression that there is mad crazy demand for yoyos out there. The fact is that it’s probably the same 50 dudes each time trying for those hot drops - dudes with cash and the willingness to hit them. But that makes everyone else think it’s impossible to get one of those yoyos.
I would really be interested in total number of active, purchasing yoyo players who are up on the scene and care about hot drops. I think there are way less of us than people think.
That’s why I’m so interested in sales numbers. I think it would be a really interesting way to gauge the size of our community.
My order # is 1083… assuming they may have started at order #1000 there have been 83 orders. That wouldn’t translate to how many yoyos though due to people buying more than one on the same order. If 1.5 is the average purchase then ~125 are sold.
I mean the story I just read said that OD “typical” run is 400 yo-yos and those don’t last too long so there has to be a couple hundred out there buying a lot of yo-yos.