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If I buy a $100 projector vs a $1,000 one, or a $20 curling iron vs a $200 one, the order of magnitude difference does make for a better product, I find.

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I don't think it's the price giving information there though. I can find many projectors being sold in the 1000 range that do not compare to the best in the 100 range.

Yes I agree that there are better products for more money, it's just that I have to filter by something else because I can't trust that the price corresponds to performance for any given listing.

> I can find many projectors being sold in the 1000 range that do not compare to the best in the 100 range.

I don't believe you. Link? That extra $900 gets a iot more lumens and portability and CPU and ports and such that the $100 ones I've seen just don't have.

You are missing the point, if you go and find reliable reviews for each price point, a good product in the 1000 bracket will be better.

The point is that if you go to a store or Amazon, you can find crap products at any price point, so much so that you cannot look at the price to get any information about quality.

Maybe. But what about the Audi vs. Volkswagen? A Ninja blender vs. a KitchenAid? A memory card from SanDisk vs. a no-name brand? A shirt from Fred Perry vs. H&M? And these were brands you probably know. What about the products in niches, where you don’t have experience, or products are sufficiently similar? Do you always know whether a product is more expensive because of the brand, or because it’s objectively better?

because car brands belong to very few auto makers, a lot of cars with different names use the same chassis across brands, the same engine, and probably the same electronics as well. so you end up with most of the difference being esthetics these days, at least for cars within roughly the same price range.

FYI Consumer Reports' "Best Buy" ratings used to reliably indicate very good quality and low price. The seem to have changed it to "Recommended" and enshittified it.

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