PSA Don't buy the cheapest crap you can find.

[techs]

It's getting ridiculous. Americans will buy any quality anything as long as it's a penny cheaper then another.

Try buying a real pizzeria pizza. It puts the cheapo chain pizza's to shame.
Real sugar flat out makes soda taste better.
Try spending more than 50 cents for pair of socks. You'll feel the difference immediately.

For literally pennies you will find the difference is amazing.

Treat yourself to real ice cream, not the store brand.

Seriously, your quality of life will improve.

 

[highland145]

I churn my own ice cream. Most likely why I'm on lippitor.

 

[joesmoke]

i always wondered about this in regards to my division chief... guy makes 100k+ easily yet shows up at the big meetings in some of the cheapest, shit-looking suits/shoes/ties in existence. if i had to walk around large buildings attending meetings for 10 hours a day i surely wouldnt want to do it in a 60 dollar pair of dress shoes.

 

[BoomerD]

It's getting ridiculous. Americans will buy any quality anything as long as it's a penny cheaper then another.

Try buying a real pizzeria pizza. It puts the cheapo chain pizza's to shame.
Real sugar flat out makes soda taste better.
Try spending more than 50 cents for pair of socks. You'll feel the difference immediately.

For literally pennies you will find the difference is amazing.

Treat yourself to real ice cream, not the store brand.

Seriously, your quality of life will improve.

The "cheaper is better" attitude is what makes China the powerhouse it is today...if it weren't for Americans' desire for cheaply made products, China would still be the backwater it was 40 years ago when Richard Nixon visited...and WalMart would be a small regional chain of stores.

 

[Malak]

Everyone should drive Audi's and wear real leather belts!

 

[vi edit]

The "cheaper is better" attitude is what makes China the powerhouse it is today...if it weren't for Americans' desire for cheaply made products, China would still be the backwater it was 40 years ago when Richard Nixon visited...and WalMart would be a small regional chain of stores.

Yeh, not to turn this into a P&N thread but I had to laugh at the news coverage yesterday about the Obama bill trying to help offset our trade deficiet with China and bring more manufacturing jobs to the US.

It's no small mystery why American manufactured goods have dropped. We want things dirt cheap, and we want to be payed a lot for making them. Those two things do not coexist together.

No political policy is going to fix that.

 

[darkxshade]

Capitalism has resulted in cheapitalism

 

[Possessed Freak]

Is this a Monster Cable viral?

 

[thepd7]

The "cheaper is better" attitude is what makes China the powerhouse it is today...if it weren't for Americans' desire for cheaply made products, China would still be the backwater it was 40 years ago when Richard Nixon visited...and WalMart would be a small regional chain of stores.

Capitalism has resulted in cheapitalism

this

 

[Tristicus]

Well technically you could buy a Ferrari as opposed to a Honda Fit in pennies and for more pennies you could have the Ferrari but it doesn't mean I want to pay that just because it is better.

 

[rivan]

There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.

- John Ruskin

 

[joesmoke]

^fantastic quote

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Some times the cheaper item is just as good, if not better than the more expensive item. Or sometimes, it may not be, but the cost/value is better on the cheaper item.

It's all a matter of preference and priorities.
Someone that is an avid aquarist, will drop several hundred dollars on a set of lights, while a regular joe with some gold fish and a betta will be happy with the cheap lights.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

I don't care how poor you are, you can afford decent toilet paper, not the industrial sized cartons of 60 grit sandpaper we have here at work. The dollar difference between 12 rolls of the good stuff and generic is not worth the ass pain everyone experiences.

 

[PingSpike]

There aren't any quality items to buy half the time. Usually the more expensive item isn't higher quality. They just take the cheap shitty one, add a couple features and stamp a brand name on it that stood for quality back in the 1950s before jacking up the price. Then when the pile of crap breaks you find out the part costs 50 % of the cost of a new one, so you throw it in the trash and replace it with the cheapest piece of shit you can find.

 

[BoberFett]

This is another thinly veiled jeans thread, isn't it?

No, I will not buy ugly $200 blue jeans. I can just as easily buy ugly $10 blue jeans and get the same effect.

 

[F1N3ST]

Jesus Christ, is everyone on a pizza kick or something lately?

 

[bignateyk]

This is another thinly veiled jeans thread, isn't it?

No, I will not buy ugly $200 blue jeans. I can just as easily buy ugly $10 blue jeans and get the same effect.

I've actually found cheaper jeans to be much higher quality.

All those expensive jeans come with that nice fashionable "worn" look w/ small tears, etc.. in them. They usually fall apart after a couple months of use.

I've had cheap walmart jeans I use for yard work that have lasted me for years under much heavier wear and tear.

 

[her209]

$200,000/yr is not rich.

 

[dpodblood]

Everyone should drive Audi's and wear real leather belts!

And buy Denon network cables too!

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-De...1640470&sr=8-1

 

[PingSpike]

And buy Denon network cables too!

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-De...1640470&sr=8-1

Hey, you get what you pay for!

 

[Cheeseplug]

Are you trying to suggest that fructose is not actually a sugar?

 

[dpodblood]

Spending $2500 on a Cat 6 cable means your digital connection will be extra clean, and even more HD than you ever thought possible!

 

[BoomerD]

There aren't any quality items to buy half the time. Usually the more expensive item isn't higher quality. They just take the cheap shitty one, add a couple features and stamp a brand name on it that stood for quality back in the 1950s before jacking up the price. Then when the pile of crap breaks you find out the part costs 50 % of the cost of a new one, so you throw it in the trash and replace it with the cheapest piece of shit you can find.

Even though I'll disagree with some of what you say, you can blame the corporations' "race to the bottom" for much of that problem. Many of the "cheap-ass junk" products come off of the same assembly lines as the higher quality products...often with many of the same components.

 

[BoberFett]

Even though I'll disagree with some of what you say, you can blame the corporations' "race to the bottom" for much of that problem. Many of the "cheap-ass junk" products come off of the same assembly lines as the higher quality products...often with many of the same components.

Is it really a corporate race to the bottom? Seems to me it's a three legged race to the bottom, with corporations and consumers strapped together at the knee.