I was sitting at home the other day when my phone suddenly went off. I noticed it was one of my good friends and I immediately assumed he was going to ask if I wanted to go play a round of disc golf. It turns out, I was mostly wrong.
I simply got this message:
"Do you want a buzz saw buzzz"
My response to him....
"Say what?"
I had no clue what he was talking about. It turns out he and his oldest son were at a disc golf tournament on the other side of the state and they were waiting in line to get their hands on an exclusive release disc. They were limiting the discs to four per person at a price of $25 a piece.
I figured why not, so I told him yes I would like him to pick one up for me. Little did know how big of deal this was going to be.
I finally met up with him the other day and he was telling me all about the tournament and how fun it was for him to caddy for his son. By all rights, he could have played in the tournament himself, but he decided not to. I've been playing the sport for over 20 years and I believe I was the first one to take my friend out on the course.
He had played regular golf quite a bit before then, but there was something about this sport that he just fell in love with. Then when his son got older he started to work for the city and spent a lot of time on our local course. This rekindled my friends love of the game as well as mine to be honest. I played more this summer than I have in the past ten summers combined I think.
Anyway, I was talking to my friend when he gave me the disc and I gave him the $25 and he said there were people in line buying their four disc limit and they already had people lined up to buy the discs from them at $75 a piece.
A quick look on eBay shows that the Discraft Buzzzz Saw is ranging in price from $79.99 to over $90. How crazy is that? I guess scarcity definitely has value, but I never would have imagined that a disc golf disc would catch such a premium.
Needless to say, I never plan on throwing this disc now. It likely will never even go in my bag.
In fact, a deeper look on eBay shows that many of the older "vintage" discs can fetch a price in the $50 to $100 range. Most specifically, I have an old Innova Moray that is selling for close to $90 in some cases. Mine has been used and isn't in the greatest shape, but it's probably still worth more than I paid for it.
I might have to go digging through my bag though and see what I have on hand. It's possible my disc golf stack is worth more than my silver stack! Can you imagine that?
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