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What Gear Has Disappointed You?

While it's clearly not an absolute fact, we tend to have an expectation that a more expensive product should be better.  Within a given brand it really should be a fact, but because there's a wide range of factors in play when it comes to pricing it's not necessarily true when comparing different brands.  I think that it's fair to say that when we purchase a more expensive product we generally have an expectation that it'll perform better.  In the cases where our experience confirms this belief it can be the result of the product actually being better and/or some expectation bias. In a sense, it doesn't really matter which it is.

With this in mind, have you ever purchased a product expecting it to be superior only find that it was clearly inferior in your experience?

 

mceljo

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mceljo OP
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@bigtwin - I took the negative approach because it's hard know if the improvement is a result of truly being real or if it's just different colored by expectation bias.  If someone paid for a product that they expected to be better and found that it wasn't, it seems like expectation bias would not be a factor as the result was the opposite of what was expected.

Ideally, I was looking for responses that said I had a $1000 component and then purchased a $3000 component and found that it wasn't an improvement.

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