Big Time Toys YoYo Ball

My 3.5-year-old daughter was BEGGING me for a yoyo after seeing one in a book. I read on a message board that this was the best one for such a young kid because even the auto-return yoyos still need you to kindof know what you're doing. It was great when I first gave it to her. She was barely able to throw it a few inches, but it came back to her hand every time. But then she dropped it, it smacked the wood floor with a crack, and then it would only retract halfway. While throwing it experimentally a few times after this, the string got all tangled up in the axles and it wouldn't move at all. I pried open the two halves with a pair of pliers through the string hole to get it untangled and see if I could figure out a way to fix it (it was broken anyway so no big loss) but there wasn't any obvious way to open the inner part. Since it was still retracting part of the way, I just cut the string shorter, closed it with duct tape, and tied the ring on to the new end of the string. That lasted for another 5 minutes until it stopped retracting at all and was just a plastic ball on a string. Now it is a piece of trash in a landfill. My husband convinced me to try ordering one more to see if this one was just a fluke since they're so cheap, but I'm not holding my breath. She might just need to wait until she's older to enjoy yoyos.