Does anyone else feel stabby when they hear this phrase?
It seems to imply that people actually believe quality increases predictably with price. What a terrible, depressing stance for a consumer to hold. We know prices are artificially inflated, and that other intangibles are factored in.
And it seems to imply if you pay less for something, you shouldn't expect that you get something that works. If you sell something that doesn't work and represent it as something that does, a low price isn't an acceptable apology, that's just being a cheat. But if someone makes a product for less and passes along the savings, that sounds good to me, if they didn't have hurt people to do it.
It always sounds defeatist to me. Oh well, that's just how it is, those CEOs know best, you get what you pay for, after all!
Note that if you have a specific thing to say about quality, value, and cost in relation to a particular product, I'm all ears. But shouting a slogan and walking away satisfied that you made a difference irks me.
Now, I'm going to boil a bag of cheap tea, and if it turns out to be sawdust and iron filings and lawn debris, I'll just chuckle to myself and say, well, what did I expect? I got what I paid for, after all? If I paid $20 per gram, I could reasonably expect it to not kill me.
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