TexDanm
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There are some store brands that I actually prefer over the brand name products. These are not much cheaper than the brand name stuff. The savings is in the fact that they don't spend money on advertising rather than from substandard ingredients. Some cheap tools are not worth owning and will break or fail you in short order. Others are actually good products just not from nationally known companies.
Sadly some products made now are all basically cheap poorly made crud that you are just paying for a well-known name. In this case, you might as well just buy cheap from the start since they are all basically throw away products. The old "You get what you pay for" saying is no longer accurate. All too often the most expensive version of a product is actually a lower quality that the midpriced versions. These are sold to the people that want to be able to brag that they own "the BEST" and they know it is best because they paid a small fortune for it. In many cases, the life expectancy of the top of the line appliances is much less than the cheaper versions. All those extra bells and whistles that nobody ever uses are just more EXPENSIVE things that will go wrong.
Sadly some products made now are all basically cheap poorly made crud that you are just paying for a well-known name. In this case, you might as well just buy cheap from the start since they are all basically throw away products. The old "You get what you pay for" saying is no longer accurate. All too often the most expensive version of a product is actually a lower quality that the midpriced versions. These are sold to the people that want to be able to brag that they own "the BEST" and they know it is best because they paid a small fortune for it. In many cases, the life expectancy of the top of the line appliances is much less than the cheaper versions. All those extra bells and whistles that nobody ever uses are just more EXPENSIVE things that will go wrong.