Me, while y’all are arguing about coffee.
(except I don’t drink that bagged crap!)
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Do you truly think a 80$ Yamaha could compete with a Les Paul? The pickups alone, which is only one of many parts are worth 5x the Yamaha and that’s not due to a country’s manufacturing cost? But the sound quality it transfers? Like I’ve played guitar for 25 years man, the point still stands that more premium hardware and materials cost more to literally make at a base level for the manufacturer? You can’t make and sell titanium yo-yo’s for 40$ because it’s a toy when the unmachined titanium costs substantially more than that 
Did you mean $900 Yamaha? What is so different? Mahogany/maple/rosewood. Pickups are not worth 5x the Gibsons. One is made in Indonesia the other somewhere in the USA. Yamaha makes the $2000 Revstar.
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Honestly
A $600 yamaha revstar probably does sound better than a $500 epi les paul.
■■■■ the revstar probably holds up against the ~1k les paul modern lite
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i know you’re talking guitars, but the stradivarius experiments would make me have serious hesitation about claims of price and quality in musical instruments
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The comparison is to show why an 80$ guitar would cost such and a 1000$+ guitar would cost such, earlier statements saying “using premium materials doesn’t justify the price as it’s just a toy” but that’s just not how the price of high quality materials (such as titanium) works 
if you make a toy out of gold, it’s valued at the weight in gold, you don’t just say it’s worth 50$ because it’s a yoyo? Y’all splitting hairs when the base of the argument is a 50$ guitar isn’t the same as a 1000$ guitar as my k2 Crystal isn’t the same as my W1LD Contrast, there’s a reason my contrast cost so much more and it makes sense to me with the materials and process it takes to make it 
Clearly we’re not saying the k2 and contrast should be the same price now right? That was my entire point that premium materials and machining costs drive prices
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This isn’t the conversation you’re talking the same points as “this premium guitar vs this premium one” when the point is someone saying you shouldn’t charge that much even when using premium materials, but that’s just not how the price of those materials work
When the graphic isnt on both sides. That just bothers me 
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Nailing a new trick I learned trick consistently throughout the day…But when time came to record, I missed every single attempt for a solid 5 minutes and never did land it. Of course with each fail, I can feel the rage building up to the point that I realized there was no point of further trying today, my fuse was getting short fast.
And even if I did nail it, I’d be up against the algorithms anyway for it to even be seen.
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When you’ve finally saved up enough money to buy a certain yo-yo, and it’s sold out…
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Not so much of a “saving money” but in my case, I’ve procrastinated on a given yoyo twice over (2 different stores) and the moment I think I’m ready to pull the trigger, that colorway is gone. Happened with the YoyoFriends Mini Peregrine. Finally found another retailer that still had that colorway in stock…first 1a purchase in a couple years now. My procrastination was “well, do I really need this? Do I have something similar to this already?” as well as being in a deepest state of…OD’s Deepest State 
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Found mine this week, when you post a wtb/LF and people will send you a picture and then never respond again…..
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Lol, that reminds me of when friends offer me food and say “hey you want this?” And I’m like “yeah” and they reply “yeah me too” and they leave me hanging. It’s more funny in my context, but dang….
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I’m not sure if this is my biggest pet peeve… But this is up there no doubt
Now and then over the years, somebody will post up a yo-yo and talk about what an amazing yo-yo it is. About how it was there every day carry. About how they reach for it all the time. But how they kind of bonded to it and on and on.
And then they say something like looking to sell this, but I know I’m gonna regret it.
The price is high because it’s gonna take a lot to get this off of me.
….. I am not saying that a person can’t be attached to a certain yo-yo
The problem that I have at least personally… Is that if I wanna buy a certain yo-yo, I want to buy it because for whatever reason I want that yo-yo, lol
I don’t want to pay through the nose for a yo-yo to convince a guy to sell it to me.
I understand that a person may pick out a certain yo-yo that has at least a reasonable value because they need the money. It happens all the time. You got yo-yo’s… You get a flat or your cat get sick or you gotta buy some new shoes… You turn around and sell a yo-yo. You turn something you have into something you need. Absolutely no problem with that. The primary part of life is surviving from day-to-day and being the master of your own destiny.
But I don’t wanna pay a special price for a yo-yo because the seller says the yo-yo is special to them. Kind of like they’re holding it hostage for lack of a better explanation. I have this yo-yo I want to sell. It was $150 brand new. It’s a very rare color way. It’s a very limited addition yo-yo. But because I’m so attached to it I’m selling it for about $100 over retail because that’s the only thing that will help tear it out of my hands.
My apologies to a few folks that may feel like I overexplained that…
I just don’t like the idea of throwing extra money I had to purchase to convince the seller to break his personal bond with the yo-yo to rehome it..
…… a specific one I’m thinking from a few years ago went like this>
I got a bill I have to pay so I’m getting rid of my all-time favorite EDC yo-yo. Best offer takes this beauty. Please bid high if you want to get this off of me. I know I will regret selling it, but for the right price, it can be yours.
Nah… Homie don’t play that.
PS… one exception to that rule.
If a guy has a yo-yo, he paid 150 for. And he wants 300 for it to talk himself into actually selling it because he knows he’s gonna miss it… But at the same time it’s something I’ve been looking for for maybe five years… And I’m willing to pay 450 for it because I want it that bad. In an instance like that, I don’t care what his story is. Because in that situation, I’m willing to pay the money to get what I want. But I’m not paying it because he’s holding it hostage… I’m paying it because I’m tired of looking for it and it’s worth the money to just end my search.
In that case, it’s what I decide. It’s not what somebody decides for me.
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