Choose the number first
What you can actually get for the money.
Price only matters after fit. Under fifty dollars is plenty if the gift is specific, and two hundred spent on the wrong thing is worse than thirty spent on the right one. These pages exist for the times the number is fixed before the idea is.
Four bands, and what each one buys
Every price on these pages was read off the retailer’s live product page and is printed with the date it was checked. Prices move, so the date is the point.
Under $50Small, specific and chosen, rather than cheap.84 gifts$50 to $100The band where a gift starts to feel considered.75 gifts$100 to $200Enough to buy something he would not buy himself.70 giftsOver $200A proper upgrade, or a shared gift from the family.56 gifts
A note on the over $200 page
The expensive band is the one where a bad choice hurts most, and it is also where a shared gift from several people becomes the obvious move. Most of what sits there is a proper upgrade of something he already owns and uses, rather than a new hobby bought on his behalf.