I was looking for an Infra Red thermometer online earlier (because they are farking awesome), and I saw a WIDE range of prices for them. From less than $16 to almost $7,000.
What else have you found that has a huge difference in pricing? Percentage and dollar differences are all acceptable. This would exclude eBay and used prices. I’ve also seen wide variances in furnace filter pricing too, by percentage that is.
So, what product can one buy that can be anywhere between dirt-cheap and prohibitively expensive? Let’s exclude houses and cars, just to narrow it down a bit.
I would think that unless you are comparing comprable items, most anything would be like that, for exampe
Cameras ($5 disposable to multi thousand dollar pro or even prosumer)
Computer mice ($10 to what $100)
Paper shreddar ($30 cheapo to $3000 large office heavy duty)
Beer ($0.50 El crapo to $7 or more trappist ale)
Speakers
Computers
Printers
TVs
Booze
Furniture
And that’s just looking around at some of the things near me.
Like I said before, comparing two incompraple items doesn’t do much. You can’t compare a $5.00 disposable camera to a high end professional digital camera. That’s like mentioning that there’s a huge difference in price between a Marvin the Martian Keychain and an iPod.
You said something before I posted the OP?
That is witchcraft.
Your keychain-iPod analogy is far beyond retarded. Re-read the title of the OP. It clearly states “same type of product”, granted that is kind of vague, but it excludes any keychain-MP3 player type of comparison. Thanks for playing.
I think the absolute best example of this would be violins. And cellos, basses and other stringed instruments.
A student-level violin or cello can be bought for 200 dollars or so. But an advanced symphonic player’s instrument, carved in Europe by master craftsmen and often hundreds of years old, can be in the neighborhood a hundred grand.
I’m in the market for an upright bass, myself. The one I’ve got my sights set on is the Upton Hawkes Hybrid, which is extremely highly rated by bassists and is made by a luthier with a very good reputation - and that’s $2,850.
Now have a look over at the Contrbass Shoppe and look at the “Quality Instruments.” It’s stated on the top of the page that they are all over $25,000 - and they don’t even have prices for each instrument. Many of them probably go from $40 to $60,000 and I’ve seen others sell for even more.
I can shred paper with a <$20 shredder, and I can shred a laser printer or even a small car with other types of shredders. If the scope of my question isn’t specific enough for you, I’d be glad to refine it. Just for you.
A link to a balsa wood toy, and a broken link to a $2 billion bomber. If you think that those are the “same type of product” , then my butter knife is like a sword, my sink is like a fire hose, and my RAM is like the entire content of the Internet.
I don’t mind jokes, even when they’re at my expense, but they have to at least be funny.
Compare a Cessna with a B2, that’s fine. both are aircraft, both have pilots, engines, electronics, etc. Comparing a glider that can be bought at a 7-11, and a state of the art stealth bomber, says more about your ignorance about the subject matter, than it does about the meaningfulness of my OP.
I cannot be a pilot in a balsa glider, if the conditions were right, I could fly a bomber. I’m sure this makes sense to you, but you chose to ignore the potential usage of the product. Did you think that I was looking for the difference in price between a Maclaren F1 matchbox car, and a real one? Of course not. If you come back, please have a real answer. Thanks.
I’ve been in correspondence with Upton in Mystic, CT and am fairly sold on their instrument due to its reputation and great quality for the price. I’ve been on the Talkbass forum for months getting advice on this, and the people there practically worship Upton to the point where I would seriously believe that they sacrifice goats in their honor. But thanks of course for the offer!
Are we talking the same exact item or similar items?
Notoriously the complete collection of Bill Nye the Science Guy is a bit pricey at $1999, compared to something like the complete West Wing (7 seasons X 6 discs a season) that my mother got for about $200.
Lipstick - you can get a tube for a dollar (where? at the dollar store) or you can pay around $50 at the Chanel counter. End result the same. Colored lips.
A non adjustable scale verses an calibratable scale. It holds true on almost any equipment that you need to be able to calibrate. You can buy a throw away unit, that is cheaper and stop using it when it fails calibration, or you can spend more and adjust when it fails calibration.
Okay, I think I have to take a bit of offense to the retarded comment. I understand the OP about the “same type of product” but I was trying to point out that you have to narrow it down quite a bit. What I was trying to say is that if you want to compare ‘cameras’ in general you’ll have such a wide varation on prices ($5.00 to multi thousand dollar (body only) cameras) that the comparison is useless, like comparing a keychain to an ipod. OTOH, if you want to compare disposable cameras to each other, or pro digital cameras to each other, that makes much more sense.
Um, am I missing something? One of the links in the OP goes to a plastic thingy that tells you how hot your food is; the other points to an industrial device for monitoring the contents of a furnace at temperatures up to 3500 degrees Centigrade. It’s like the difference between “My First Toy Microscope” and a research grade stereo microscope. (Actually, that sort of fits with the ranges described - you can get a cheap basic microscope for under thirty quid, no problem, but the Meiji Techno RZ series starts at just under four thousand dollars and goes up from there.)
They’re different products. They’re designed and built to different standards, to do different jobs. Why would you expect them to have similar prices?
Ammunition. Depending upon weight, performance, purpose, manufacturer and local regulations (read: availability) the prices can vary widely. Since each dealer can set his resale prices to whatever he wants you can get a spread of $10 and up per box from stores within mere miles of each other.
Headphones can cost a few bucks for a pair that’ll do the job, or they can cost hundreds for professional studio-quality.
I will say this much. There’s nothing like hearing music from an iPod with my Sony studio headphones. It’s like the music is in three dimensions. It’s awesome.
I think that in this case, the difference in price is because the Bill Nye videos are targeted towards schools. So, the pricing is different than it would be for selling a series to individuals.
