Why not design, cut and build your own wood or MDF stick then? When life gives you lemons…cut, squeeze, sweeten and drink.
It’s alot easier now to buy a stick than it was 8/9 years ago.
Canada has it easy compared to Europe, at least with Canada people from the US and Japan are willing to ship to you.
And if you are not in Western Europe (UK, France, Germany, Ect) the factor increases exponentially.
Its even worst in you live in places like Brazil, where there like a 300% import tax owned on all imports, and why ether Japanese companies license off to local companies to make cheap knock offs or just refuse to do business there.
There gamers from countries that wish they have it as good as Canada. Paying $200 on what is in the US a $150 stick isn’t that bad when you factor someone in Greece, Brazil or South Africa looking at $300/$400 for the same stick. Canada even has it better than Australia, and Australia is geographically closer to Japan.