# 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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### Author: ![slwrthnu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slwrthnu/32/6296_2.png) [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-items-dont-correlate-their-price-premium-to-their-functionality/266106/75 "2013-01-28T15:28:30Z")

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> [@Scooter?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/scooter/51537/26):
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> All we need in this world is water food and shelter. Anything beyond that is a WANT. Arguing over why someone would want to pay more for something that does the same thing as another is pointless. Maybe they care as much about having a name brand item as you care about not having a name brand item. Who the fuck cares. Seriously.
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> Cars ALL do the same thing. Get you from point A to point B. I can go buy an econobox for sub $10k brand new or I can go buy an super high end Maybach for $400k. They both do the same thing they just do it differently. Same with everything else on this planet.

but in order to have water food and shelter you need other things to obtain them.

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