# What items don't correlate their price premium to their functionality?

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**Created:** [January 25, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-items-dont-correlate-their-price-premium-to-their-functionality/266106 "2013-01-25T22:56:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-items-dont-correlate-their-price-premium-to-their-functionality/266106/21 "2013-01-26T19:41:48Z")

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> [@You're saying it wrong....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/youre-saying-it-wrong/51536/31):
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> It tells time, that’s the function.  
> A 10-dollar Casio will do that as well as any watch.  
> 200 is just for the fancy-pants stuff like compasses and such.  
> Anything above that and it’s fashion, pure and simple.

So with that logic, Ferraris and other exotics are for fashion, pure and simple, compared to say, a Hyundai Accent.

MV Augustas an Ducatis are just fancy pants fashion over a Ninja 250.

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