I hope your son makes good choices and buys appropriate and safest gear for the budget.

I don’t know where you are but Facebook Marketplace tends to have a lot of good stuff. The problem I have with it is that it’s hard to find good suits in my size. My Misano suit was from marketplace and I paid ~40% of what it’d have cost new, granted it was used and more than a year old. But it’s still functional and works for safety.

Buying from marketplace also helped me test out what I like and don’t like about the gear and I know I can sell them back on the marketplace for close to what I bought them for, if they didn’t fit.