I’m genuinely wondering if there’s a justification that I’m unaware of. As a non-expert in this community, this $100 price tag looks completely ridiculous to me. I’m just wondering if this product is meaningfully superior to your average $10-20 pair of clippers to justify the price.
Is it because of materials? Is it made of titanium or something? Does it cure cancer?
Posted by SuperTune2540
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It’s a “Pro” Nipper.
They’re Made in the USA so you’re more likely to catch native trout species. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s actually a specially formulated meta material forged from tears of the poors
It’s $100 because people are dumb enough to buy it at that price. Anyone is out of their mind if they think something like this is worth more than $10 retail.
Dupe me into 1000 dollar fly rods, overpriced reels and waders. But I will never stop using nail clippers. This is the dumbest shit in the sport.
Fly fishing is kind of like the wedding industry. If the seller knows it is for fly fishing the price goes up by 500%.
Fingernail clippers cost less than $10 and cut through fishing line as good as anything else.
You could make that out of the best Ti alloy for under $10.
Its Simms man. The price to value ratio is always crazy.
Because people like to spend money.
Look, I’m all for investing in a sport or hobby you like. Buy that nice flashy outfit, do whatever, but simms and Abel are on another level of ridiculousness. Try the yakoda nippers if you want something a little showy, otherwise cheap ones work just fine.
Because people will buy them.
For that price it better land me the fish too
Because people have too much money?
They ain’t worth it. If you are ginna spend money kn nippers go with able
Because there’s a sucker born every minute
For the same price you can get a pair of godhands (high quality sidecutters for Gundam/plastic models)
Because they can charge it. There’s a lot of fly fishers with cash to burn and $100 on effectively nail clippers doesn’t bother them.
$100 to some people is like $10 to others and the better off don’t think about it.
Threader is slick. My eyes suck. I hate switching between polarized and readers and I can’t find a prescription polarized that I like. People will pay obviously. The best part of them is after 15 days of use when you’re on the front end of a 2 week trip and the magnets that keep the jaws open come unglued and jam the nippers to the point they can’t be used. Then after 20 minutes when you get the magnets out so you can use them, the lack of magnets to keep the jaws open makes them almost unusable. But the good part is when you’re in Bozeman and you can just go to the simms store in downtown bozeman to get them replaced. Nope, ‘we can’t do anything here. Maybe try the flagship store next to the corporate office over in 4 corners.’ Fine, it’s on my way otu of town anyhow so no big deal to hit the Simms flagship store next to the corporate office and get a new pair and be on your way. Oh wait. The Simms flagship store guy just walks across the parking lot to corporate and then comes back and tells you they’ll fix them for you and mail them to you in 3 weeks when your big summer trip is over. After a ‘come on man, I’ve literally been buying your stuff since the 90s and you’re going to do this to me at the start of a trip when you have 10 pairs just sitting there? I’ll take the demos.’ And the guy responds, ‘I’m sorry, but corporate.’
And that was when i decided to never spend another cent on anything from Simms. True story from when I was fishing with my son on the Taylor fork of the gallatin before taking him to Montana State orientation then stopping in Wyoming on my way back to Southern California to fish for 10 more days.
Buy fly fishing things from non Simms companies would be my advice.
To flex on broke boys
Has a fish on it, instant $95 price increase
cause they’re greedy
[These are the nippers I use](https://drewlr.bigcartel.com/product/nippers-nippers)
They’re pretty awesome.
You can pair them with a pair of $625 Abel pliers.
Private equity
Because people who can’t fly fish like to stock up on gear. There’s also the poors who think such things are status symbols.
I thought the ones I saw for $25 were high priced. 😵💫
They sink slightly slower when you drop them in a river, giving you more time to regret spending that much money on something so unnecessary.