Well we are all familiar with that saying, and the implication that if it dont cost much it cant be that good and if it costs loads it must be good. !!
But is that strictly true ?
I Would say one of the best services or products i have used in terms of what you get for what you paid has gotta be whatsapp ( £0.69 after the first year and even then some say i have been scammed lol )
So what about you, what especially has been good or even the other extreme really bad ? |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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Value for money is important. That's not just the price but its worth to you and how you will use it.
I do think for some things that buy cheap buy twice is true. A cheap coat for one season might be fine but for many years of wear I would spend more and go for better quality.
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“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
? Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
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"“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
? Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play "
Spot on.
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