You get what you pay for...?

[paulpablo]

Do you guys and gals believe that you generally get what you pay for? Or that most, if not all, expensive things are overpriced? Obviously the concept of something being overpriced can be completely subjective here... but I'm just talking in a general sense.

Or do you fall somewhere in the middle? That you get what you pay for to an extent... but that there's a point when the price of something simply becomes about novelty or status?

I'm interested to hear what people think.

Definitely option 3.  There's someone in my work who's the epitome of a person who spends money purely for status, I have a theory he's some sort of sociopath for various other reasons aswell.

He used to come in work wearing an expensive hat, because of the brand they put goggles on every brand of theirs.  Like even if it's a pair of jeans it will have goggles sewn into it for reasons that baffle me completely.  It cost around 15 times what a normal hat would cost here in the UK.  I think he said it was about 150 pounds.

Everytime I saw him the hat would just get me angry, I'd think of great I have to talk to goggle hat wanker now.  A few other people have told him he looks like a twat wearing it.

But everything with him is shoes worth 1000 pounds, jewelry and watches and all sorts.

I do buy relatively expensive clothes but I like to think I buy at the range before the cut off point where it's just for status.

The brands I buy are fred perry, superdry, no religion, vans, dc, addidas.  They're pretty decent brands but not show off brands.