When I throw at the shop, one of the most common responses I get is, “oh, a yoyo. I haven’t seen one of those in years, do people still do that?”
The reason I say that the average (or most) people wouldn’t spend five bucks for a yo-yo is because most folks wouldn’t buy one at any price. The point I was trying to make is that when yo-yos were wildly popular, a three piece glued wood axle yo-yo was not perceived as cheap or low quality or something that screams please kill me.