I don't think Shubbs are overpriced, they seem to be very well made and as BW notes would probably last a lifetime with a few rubber changes but I've retired the ones I use on my guitars after a friend gave me a quick-change capo out of a 3 pack he bought on Amazon for about the price of a single Shubb. It works so well and is so easy to use I don't even know where my other guitar capos are right now. It seems to be going that way with musical instruments as well, earlier this year I purchased a made-in-China Eastman 335-type guitar at less than a 1/3 the price of the Gibson original. The materials and workmanship are surprisingly good and it is as much a guitar as I could want for playing electric blues.