The thing is as Tom said, is that the bigger brands have bigger overheads and more kit to enable them to make more bats. You can't really compare them to boutique brands making from home. I appreciate you can get a quality bat from many smaller makers, but if the bigger brands didn't exist there wouldn't be enough bats to go around as there wouldn't be enough made.
In terms of price increases, it's been covered many times and it's a complex issue. The demand for big bats at lightweight being an issue. The way the game is being played now another and the sheer amount of people playing the game, plus the fact that people just don't care for their bats as much, means demand is greater than ever I reckon.
All that said, 330 for a G3 isn't cheap but is the way it's going. But funnily enough, if this drives people to buy cheap imports, it could only add to the issue of willow supply and demand 😆 It's such a complex issue, it could be discussed for days
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