I've seen interviews where a manufacturer would say that his dealers in Asia told him he didn't have product that was sufficiently expensive, and urged him to introduce a new model to fill that demand...
Why is the high end stratospheric?
I think this article has at least part of the answer:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-07/scammed-at-40-000-feet-opaque-market-costs-the-je...
To your own ears and wallet be true, but I will always fight against seeing prices as the way we determine quality.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-07/scammed-at-40-000-feet-opaque-market-costs-the-je...
To your own ears and wallet be true, but I will always fight against seeing prices as the way we determine quality.