Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced

i assume that if you hated a component , you wouldn't have bought it.
so too, if you liked a component, but thought it was overpriced, you wouldn't buy it.

either way, you have asked a rhetorical question.

i suspect most people , in principle, would not buy something that is overpriced, as it violates a basic principle in economics:

the value in use = the value in exchange.

hi timrhu:

i don't believe in crap shoots, so i try not to buy equipment without hearing it first.

secondly i stated an economic principle, i.e., the value in use = the value in exchange.

this means a person will not pay more for an item than he thinks it is worth.

in my case, no component is worth more than $10,000.

thus as far as i am concerned, since i do not buy withiut listening, the question posed in this thread is rhetorical, for me.