I agree, but rich people can get the good ones flown in from NYC.
That’s my point- even the “high end” laundry detergent is sold in grocery stores, and is more about environmental friendliness rather than some perceived higher degree of luxury.
And I bet dishwasher detergent is even more common; I mean, Cascade Platinum and Finish Quantum are about as high-end as it gets, and they’re common as dirt.
Several years ago there was a NY Times article about the universal love for the mini pigs-in-a-blanket hors d’oeuvres, which caterers get asked to provide at fancy Hamptons parties. Some tried to luxe them up by using duck sausage and phyllo dough or whatever, but in the end, what people want is cocktail weenies in pop 'n fresh dough. So they renamed that “sausage en croute” to make them seem more worthy of the price.
Somebody left us a bottle of “no corn syrup” ketchup once after a bbq. I’ve also had ketchup with grilled onions added. Neither were any better than the original.
I not sure if you’d call it gourmet but I did see a store selling fresh ground peanut butter.
Drill bits or saw blades? Hand tools? There’s some expensive ones out there to be sure but I can’t imagine any super rich hobbyists to be using something any fancier than the guys at the local dealership or cabinet shop might have around.
With that sort of thing (hand tools, drill bits, saw blades, etc), the high end stuff is the stuff the professionals use. There’s no fancy version of the stuff because those aren’t really rich people hobbies.
The cabinet shop has a big CNC router, something like this. It costs about that of a mid-range car when you’ve added all the accessories.
There’s very little it can do that someone with a $100 router from Home Depot can’t, except that it requires 1/100th the labor. A rich hobbyist could certainly afford one, and allow concentrating on the fun parts of the hobby instead of the tedious parts.
I was speaking of hand tools and tooling. In that regard there is definately both low and high end stuff, but I don’t know if it would be high end enough to be considered fancy.
Production machines can break into the millions, easily.
Shoot, the hippy-dippy health food store I used to patronize in Charlottesville in the early 1980s did that. When you bought their natural PB, they’d pour peanuts into the hopper right in front of you, turn on the grinder, and out would come fresh, warm, totally natural PB. Loved eating it right away while it was still warm, and it had the best texture and mouthfeel. And it didn’t cost much more than the PB in the grocery stores.
The pro mechanics tend to be the ones using the expensive tools like Snap-On, since they use the damn things daily for their livelihood and a broken tool means downtime when they’re not earning (plus skinned knuckles). So you’re right, the rich guys who want tools for home just buy the stuff that the pros use.
It may be that the maker can’t be arsed enough to pay the money to test the stuff to prove there’s no lead in it needed to get rid of a label that no one pays any attention to.
I have a wealthy friend (Simon) who is a pretty good craftsman. He visited a guy (Tom) who is an excellent craftsman, top of the (specialized) field, and makes a lot of money selling stuff he’s made. Simon said he was hoping to learn Tom’s secret when he toured the workshop. But there were the same tools he had, and in many cases, cheaper tools than he had. Tom’s secret sauce is his skill and attention to detail.
So, yeah, hobbyists sometimes buy more expensive stuff than pros. But not a lot more expensive.
Not as expensive but it is fancy
You’ve got me imagining a top notch mechanic visiting Leno’s garage, im sure its impressive as all hell.
I’d spend a weeks vacation just to go stare at his motorcycles from across the street if I could.
I think the point is that Leno wouldn’t be using some sort of boutique French wrenches to work on his cars- at best, he’d be using Snap-On, Cornwell, MAC or Matco, which is what a lot of professional mechanics and racing mechanics use. Or maybe Facom, Hazet, Stahlwille or Wera, if he wants to go European, but they’re not higher quality than the US made ones.
I think the difference is that since a lot of pros are having to deal with the price/performance angle trying to make a profit, they may not have an entire tool set made of high-end tools. They may have say… Snap-On for the ones they use constantly, but they may also have a set of Craftsman or Kobalt tools that get used infrequently. Adequate, but not the best. But a wealthy hobbyist might just have ALL Snap-On tools just because they can.
Actually, I’ll bet that Snap-On or one of its competitors supplied Jay Leno’s garage with a free full set of tools, just because it’s so high visibility.
Now I’m imagining Jay has a special handmade French wrench for his Citroen, and an Italian one for his Lamborghini, and so forth. 
Or if nothing else, a big, conspicuously branded tool box!
I could see that some of the antique cars, or some of the exotic modern cars, require special tools to service them. The New York Times casually mentioned, in an article about the new Bugatti Chiron, that only two machines in the world can change the tires on a Bugatti Veyron.