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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by wiredfool on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:21AM (#27115944)
It's like the Sam Vines theory of Economic Injustice: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...

Pay for quality. It's cheaper in the long run.

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Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016) by Chris2048 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @09:19AM (#27117725)
The market adjusts. People pay for "quality" in an environment of information asymmetry - cheap stuff will be polished and given a high price tag. Products can do a better imitation of quality than people can discern it.

Even the value of "brand" is diminishing: decent corps are bought and gutted all the time.

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