I don't muck about with quality.
Buy quality once and it's there forever.
Quality usually does mean a higher capital expenditure but seeing as it's for a worthwhile cause (ie me sitting in the tinny watching the world go by) I say hang the expense.
For me the massive expenditure would still be cheap at double the price if you consider the benefits I get out of it.

4" Alvey.....$15 from someones garage sale.
8lb mono....$12
Snyderglas rod (the expensive bit but handmade by me, myself and I)....$40

No lures. Just a yabbi pump.....$10 (same garage sale as the Alvey)

And a few sinkers in the good old plastic pill bottle and last but not least some hooks and swivels in the 2 tier round Alvey bakelite tacklebox....$22 (new )

All up around the $100 mark for all types of fishing from the tinny.

My tiny tinny cost less then what some of you fella's spend on a rod by the sounds

Yep, I'm a tight a-se