Burning Money this season

$3000 up in smoke
has anyone here added up how much they burn up each season in cash on kites.

Looking at the 2nd hand market seems to show most guys are getting out of their 2006 bows for at least 1/2 price of what they paid, over a 3 kite quiver this would add up to at least $3000 dollars.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I missing something here?????

or is that what we should budget to spend on kites annually to keep a new quiver????

Drew

definitely missing something...

my net spend was more like $450, and that's working with a half-life loss on Frankenkite.

would be nice to have flash shiney gear but, hey, gear that works is better than anything I don't have.

GIV U A HOT TIP
DONT BUY CABRINHA
THOSE PRICES ARE INSANE!!!

scratch that - just saw the clown outfit.

lol user.. too true!

as my old man says "you cant take it with you" so anyway if you got it might as well spend it if you havnt might as well credit it!

user mate, how ya goin!!

i get new kites most years but 3k, dont think so...
i buy pretty much what i want in life, but ill giv you another hot tip:
shop around.

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Originally posted by GalahOnTheBay

if you are spending $3k every season then you are either:

a) a "latest & greatest" tragic
b) a noob who destroys gear far to often

people grow out of being a "B", but I have no sympathy for the "A" folks - it's because of people like them that kite reatailers belive they can continue to charge insane prices for kites...

<here endeth the rant>

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wouldnt the guys in group A that are selling their first season kites to the guys in group B (the noobs) or anyone else for that matter who cant afford a new kite. of course its easy to say “well they cant afford a new kite because the group A are helping the kite companies keep inflated (no pun intended) prices”. As I said - that’s easy to say but its way more complicated than pointing to people that buy new kites every year. Besides I don’t know anyone except the kite shops staff (guys that use the gear they sell) or kite shops/schools that are selling the past seasons demo/school kites, that might be able to do that and maybe that was the impetus of this thread to begin with. Who knows.

Kite companies sell at a market price that they think is a balance of affordability and profitability , inovative improved product they have designed also works into that equation as well as several other factors. Sure - if no one was buying new kites they would have to reduce the price to get the stock out and then people who couldn’t afford the higher price could buy the product, then sell their second hand kites to group B (or still those that cant afford) for even less or perhaps for nothing because of the second hand market being flooded , that leads back to affordability of the new kite. . Remember the laws of Supply and Demand. this goes some way to answering the very first post too, at least in a logical context.

I go against both groups as I bought two new kites this season (as I could afford them - tut tut) and I am a noob that’s yet to wreck either of them or for that matter interested in selling either of them.

here endeth my short explanation of econimics