If you buy a used M&E, Shannon, Somers, Copley, Forbes, etc., you may spend more than the TB021 on the purchase, but you will recoup that money if you want to sell it again. With a new instrument, you will *always* lose money on resale unless you got it at a significant discount.
Which gets to an important point: if you buy a used instrument and don’t get on with it, you can sell it on for about as much as you bought it for, sometimes even a bit more if you got a really good deal. The 3-piece Dixon polymer flutes are a much better proposition, and I’ve seen them come up used for not too terribly much more than a TB021 new. Doug Tipple’s flutes are usually recommended here as a bargain-basement flute, and while I have no experience with them I’d trust them to be better than the TB021 by the sheer fact that I found the Dixon to be that bad.
More than that, though, the embouchure and toneholes just have a different *feel* than a normal flute, and I’d worry that if you start out on one you will have a significant amount of adjustment when moving up. The Dixon TB021 is IMO a pretty terrible flute, it will make a sound and you *can* play it like a normal flute, but it just isn’t up to much at all.
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