l will straight out tell you my ‘personal’ biggest problem with yoyos that ‘vibe’. ( and a few other thoughts).
It is Not that the vibe tortures me and gives me nightmares of all my hard earned money going down the toilet.
My biggest concern is that if for whatever reason I just don’t ‘click’ with the yoyo. Then I have to take it in the shorts when/if I try to sell or trade it.
Because, the vibey yoyo is a great starting point for a potential buyer to bicker down the cash price or trade value of the yoyo.
Even if vibey yoyos don’t bother him in the least.
Example… > I see a BST on the forum. The guy has a Yoyorecreation yoyo for sale. Fortunately for him, his is dead smooth. Mine is as new as his but mine came with a little but noticeable vibe. The yoyos are very close in retail cost. But I am at a possible instant disadvantage because mine has a slight issue. An issue that really has No real effect on the actual performance of the yoyo. But considered a defect, regardless.
When I do my BST stuff, I Never make a profit. I never try to make the other person come up on the short end of the deal. People will always remember you, regardless of how they come out on a deal.
I would rather that they feel the deal was ‘good’. And not think I tried to pull a fast one on them.
…If I get a yoyo that has a little vibe and I like everything else about it. Most likely I will be keeping it.
Vibe by itself does not make me ‘not like a yoyo’. But if a new yoyo vibes and also does not check the boxes for me: too wide maybe, just a little to slow or heavy feeling, sharp edges, poor weight distribution affecting plane at lower rpm’s, funky finish or ugly colorway, etc.
Then I have to calculate what kind of loss I am willing to take if I decide it is BST bound?
…We expect that all yoyo Makers sell nothing but PERFECT vibe free yoyos. Because they have the machinery/technology/experience/know how, etc… And they should drop everything else and take hours on end, testing and testing and mixing halves and changing bearings … so that every single yoyo that leaves the Shop is a Wet Dream and worth every single hard earned penny we spend on them.
But… when you wake up from that dream and have to deal with reality, it just isn’t in the cards.
The higher the retail price point; the higher our expectation for perfection.
That is only logical and reasonable.
But, there is a point on the number line, where we must find a ‘balance’. Are we looking for a perfect vibe free yoyo to have a perfect vibe free yoyo?
Or do we have to have that Perfect vibe free yoyo because we paid in Blood for it?
And if we don’t get something that makes us 100% happy, that we are going to Die screaming in Bankruptcy Court?
Have you noticed up to this point in my oratory, that I did not yet mention that we are suppose to have fun with very good playing yoyos? And not pull our hair out crying about if its’ not perfect it’s junk and I hate it?
Instead of playing the blame game and pointing all the cannons at the Makers if every yoyo doesn’t come out perfect. Why not buy yoyos at lower price points that may come stock with a little vibe or whatever. And then just play the heck out of them and have some fun?
I think my favorite ‘laugh’ comes out when somebody says, ‘Well, I know this guy that makes yoyos and he only make perfect ones, so why can’t the larger Makers make all perfect ones too’?
What the reality is, is that a Botique yoyo seller doesn’t make All Perfect yoyos. He only sells the ones that came out near perfect. You either never see the ‘funny ones’ or they are sold as glitches.
I’m not saying that is wrong. But you have to consider all the aspects available before you come to conclusions about how things ‘happen’.
Slightly redundant example>>> My friend designs and makes his own yoyos. He recently made a batch of 50 yoyos. And every one of them was PERFECT! …Uh, or at least every one he let me try was perfect? I dunno? He did have a box under the work table. I wonder what was in that box?
Logic dictates that the more complicated the yoyo design, the more potential there is for yoyos that don’t make the final quality cut. Some will be sold as seconds and some will be recycled.
And as one of the guys has already mentioned; some of the $10 range yoyos are very simple designs that allow pretty smooth yoyos. << Simple yoyos for simple non adventurous players on a budget.
… I will play with my Kyle Weems Death Robot and you can play with you Sharks Honor stocking stuffer.
Bottom line is that no matter how you want to cut it. We All have our own personal ideas of what Manufacturers guidelines should be for releasing yoyos at levels of perfection ‘we’ expect.
And the Makers are well aware of how they may be judged by how much effort they seem or don’t seem to be interested in spending to keep us from Whining about how they ruin our happiness and yoyo careers by releasing anything less than perfect.
Release your mind from Expectations of Perfection. And wrap your energy around some good playing yoyos and have some Fun.
The people that spend more time having fun; spend much less time sobbing through teary eyes.
…Notice, in the above wall of miscellaneous thoughts; you will find nothing that was borrowed from a missing page in the Bible.
But if you have a decent grasp on reality. You can easily find the information I have provided is reasonable and true.
Just sit back in a nice recliner. Close your eyes and relax. Now scan your brain until you get to the area where an open mind is stored. An area where more logical thinking is allow and encouraged.
Where you can remove some of your more reactive emotions and use that energy to head you in the correct direction.
Yoyos are not perfect. Yoyos are fun. Buy a good one you can afford. Put the loop on your finger and have some fun.
You see… you already knew everything I just told you.
You were just too busy whining to see it…