Unfortunately you get what you pay for. I can tune my bow to them and shoot the $60/dozen Gold Tips or Bemans or Cabelas into a five shot group at whatever range, and then tune the bow a bit for a different arrow that is $160/dozen and put every one of the dozen of the expensive ones inside that group with room to spare. When you shoot the entire dozen of the cheaper arrows or test them on a spinner and spine checker, then you'll find that the expensive arrows are actually cheaper, because of the dozen cheap ones only 4 may fly right. Also, the expensive ones will survive many more incidents that will break the cheaper ones.
It comes down to expectations from your equipment based on your perceived shooting ability. If a person is satisfied with the groups they're getting, then the cheap arrows are fine. It's when you push the horizon of what you think you can do that you find why the horizon was there in the first place. In this case, I thought the cheap arrows were fine, also, until I shot the others.
