Not really - it's a sensible business plan that appeals to people's distrust of tat.
However lazy it is, people tend to think that more expensive = better quality.

CF Lady Diana's funeral (though the mentality is slightly different) - canny florists had two wreaths for sale - a £20 one and a £40 one.

Well - if you're really grieving of course you'll take the £40 one.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 12:15, 3 replies)

Indeed.
In a strangely ironic way, it was his (misguided) mistrust of the their business acumen that showed this to be the case.
(dchurch bah, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 12:34, closed)

As long as you take out the extended warranty it doesn't matter which one you buy.

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 13:55, closed)

There's a lovely story I heard about generic drug manufacturers in India.
When Indian firms started to produce copycat drugs in bulk, they'd sell them for only a shade over cost price - maybe 10% of the price of the branded version. Some of them were lifesaving; but they just weren't shifting.

The reason turned out to be that people were so used to the drugs being hyper-expensive, they reasoned that anything that cheap had to be ineffective. Once the manufacturer tripled the price, they started selling.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 14:15, closed)