reading discussinos on low end cabinets etc, thought I would throw this out. this is a poster in our office, wish I coul d scan it
Price vs Value
It is unwise to pay too much but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much , you loose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. The common law of businesss balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot- it can not be done. If you deal wirth the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the trisk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for the better
Josh Ruskin
English Philosopher
1819-1900
anyway it is just a thought to throw out there
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I've got an old Canoga mixer.
On the side of it there's a label that says
"The quality remains long after the price is forgotten"
(Or something like that.)
Joe H
then again ...
the thread you mentioned is about kitchen cabinets .. which are over glorified boxes hung on a wall ....
not everyone "needs" full extension glides ...
not everyone "needs" dovetail drawer boxes ...
both may look and feel better ...
but really, do ya think they affect the utility of a box hanging on a kitchen wall?
I hate our kitchen cab's .... gonna replace them sooner or later ... but purely for asthetic reasons ... they're plenty ugly ... but even without the full extension glides and dovetailed boxes ... they hold the groceries and dishes just fine.
There's true value .. then precieved value.
form .. function ... all that crap.
Jeff
Buck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
Full extension slides, dovetail drawers, and a chipboard carcass that'll swell up and disintegrate when the Mexican maid floods the marble tile with mop water. Hung some plywood cabs last year, forgot how friggin' light those suckers were.
In the UK a frequently heard experession is "you get what you pay for". Like many such expressions it is only partly true. I prefer "you never get more than you pay for, but you can quite often get less.
Never the less, I sometimes find myself in a position where I need to buy an item of which several different makes are available. Unless I want to do a lot of research, quite often the only guide to quality is price. If it's a tool then I usually find myself avoiding the cheap ones
John