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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by Terretta on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:19PM (#30151780)
For a lot of people "cheapest tool first" is their goto (and not for the principled reason you shared).

So eventually the cheapest tool makers get enough money to buy up the differentiated quality makers for their logo with enough branding power to price discriminate, and slap it on products from the same cheap factory line.

Then, ugh.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by aksss on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:43PM (#30152199)
A lot of times the price differential is such that I can buy two or three of item x for the price of a single premium version. If you seldom use the tool and it isn’t getting handled a lot (transportation, etc), this is the way. You can replace the item and still come out ahead.

There’s also that motto of “I’m too poor to buy it twice”, which comes into play when item y has a price like 75% of the premium version and/or you know the tool will have some rough travel and high demand, or time lost from outage isn’t acceptable. Then just spend the money on known-solid brands.

Reviews are an area where I really value specialized forums more than social media or blogs or industry publications.

In all cases with reviews even when no monetization involved, there can be a bandwagon mentality for brands and also people convincing themselves the high price they paid matters for something (even though it may not).

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