Hey OzBargainers One to Consider, YGWYPF (You get what you pay for)

RockyRaccoon on 30/05/2021 - 11:30
Last edited 30/05/2021 - 15:07 by 1 other user

Ok peeps here's one for the thinkers.

Lets play as its intended - a bit of fun, for those who like playing, and please be kind. 🙏

Here at Ozbargain we love Bargains, but the every now and again someone comes along and says, the products no good because its not of quality.

Then there's the comment YGWYPF

"You get what you pay for"

It is one of the common-sense truths that gets repeated often, but what does it really mean?

Thats what I thought I'd get thoughts on. (lets not overthink this thinking 🤦🏻)

You pay for something and then, typically, you get the thing you paid for, of course you do, unless its being shipped to you by some doggy Carrier. You paid it gets delivered.

So whats the point of telling someone YGWYPF?

Is it, buy something Cheap, get Cheap Quality?

If thats the same why are you at Ozbargain, where we always try to get something cheap?

In other words "quality is completely determined by price?"

Do you really believe that?

If YGWYPF, then this top deal here recently, https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/621914 would fall apart far earlier than the ones bought at full price a week earlier.

So normally cheap products are likely to be YGWYPF, which could be true, but not necessarily. You get what you pay for means Aldi cheap cornflakes are far inferior to leading brand cornflakes.

Or then are we saying - Buy expensive products, and you are probably overpaying for quality.

Does that fit YGWYPF, too.

Price is limited in comparing the quality of products, though it is useful in determining value.

So what do you think. Is it accurate? or is it overused? or whatever? 😀

General Discussion

Comments

  • Pelicannn on 30/05/2021 - 11:59
    +3

    YMMV with YGWYPF

    • iforgotmysocks on 30/05/2021 - 13:01

      IANAL

      • Mechz on 30/05/2021 - 13:57
        +1

        I am not a liar?

        • Pelicannn on 30/05/2021 - 18:11
          +3

          Supposed to be a ♥️ between the first two letters I think.

        • AlienC on 30/05/2021 - 19:16

          I ANAL

  • bazingaa on 30/05/2021 - 12:00
    +1

    I don't see a point in buying ALDI products when I can get name brand products cheaper from Coles half-price

    • TEER3X on 30/05/2021 - 13:07

      examples?

      • afoveht on 30/05/2021 - 13:19

        Sometimes when branded products are 50% off. Eg. cereals.

        • TEER3X on 30/05/2021 - 14:12

          Point is to send partner in to aldi to shop, one that isn't good at discount shopping.

  • Godric on 30/05/2021 - 12:24

    Question Mark Count: 9

  • brendanm on 30/05/2021 - 12:46
    +2

    You can get quality items at better prices here.

  • Hybroid on 30/05/2021 - 12:50

    Dell backpacks are cheap not only because they're cheap to make but you're paying money to be a walking advertisement for their brand logo. I don't get your point?

  • afoveht on 30/05/2021 - 13:25

    It can be difficult to get what you paid for but it's certainly easy to pay for more than what you get. IMO it's much easier to avoid the latter than chase the former.

  • djones145 on 30/05/2021 - 13:46
    +3

    i prefer

    OYAANCAPASABPOAIWYCHGOAQWYCHGBRMAPIABFAI

    omg you are a newly created account posting about scammers, accident, best price of an item which you could have googled or a question which you could have googled but rather made a post in a bargain forum about it.

  • ragrum on 30/05/2021 - 15:55
    +1

    IVI, some of those lines are way too long.

  • FireRunner on 30/05/2021 - 16:35

    I think it's true to a certain degree. You buy cheap/no-name brand products, you'll likely get a bad or at least inferior quality product to a name brand.
    You can definitely overpay, the retailer jacks the price up or you pay premium just for the name.
    On the other hand, you can get a good quality product at a discount (like the Dell backpacks)

  • AlienC on 30/05/2021 - 19:23

    So this is what my posts and comments look like lol well at least I have some sort of self reflection reference guide now lol.

    I think you get what you pay for just means that well yeah if it is too good to be true or super cheap and no quality then don't expect it to be as good as something that costs more and has more quality.

    As always just look for the best value which means you incorporate the idea of quality or performance in the equation of the cost and not just the cost alone.

    I always try to find or ask what is the sweet spot which is basically what is the best price to performance/quality ratio and you can usually use some metric like number of uses or lifespan divided by cost to get some sort of metric and go by that.

    Obviously different levels of quality sometimes exist in certain product brackets and sometimes the people will know if it is a good buy or bargain or not.

    Sometimes in general though the person calling the product ymmv or ygwypf does not know what they are talking about and that can create another level of confusion so you always have to think of that.

    On another random note I do like using acronyms and idioms also they definitely shorten comment creation time and have their own nuances etc.

    Strong believer of IMHO and just my two cents.

    PEBKAC or FUBAR is also good.

    KISS is something I say in real life but not online because nobody ever gets it.

    Plenty more but I CBF.

    • RockyRaccoon on 30/05/2021 - 19:51

      Thanks for the comments

      In this case I used "you get what you paid for" then in the rest of the references I used the shorten version rather than type it over and over again.

      Hell I got criticised (in a nice way) for 9 question marks. What about commas (?) 😀

      I was indicating, that responding to peoples posts with the YGWYPF comment, really means nothing, just like you indicated. Performace ratios, value equations etc often come into play.

      Of course you get what you paid for - because you paid that!

  • brad1-8tsi on 30/05/2021 - 21:22

    When I buy something I usually price a few items and go a step or two above the cheapest.

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