High quality-high cost vs lower quality-lower cost

[Drago]

I'm not criticising Park tools per se. Most are quite decent, but in many cases there are items of equal or better utility and longevity for less money from other sources - in the main they're expensive without sufficient justification.

 

[Blue Hills]

Being expensive does not automatically confer quality upon an item any more than being cheap confers value.

Exactly - billions of advertising money has been spent to persuade folk that it is worth spending more for products that are no better than the often cheaper competition. I believe the first ever advert on ITV was for toothpaste. Toothpaste FFS. And then there are the millions spent on advertising bog roll. Bog roll FFS.

 

[Blue Hills]

I'm not criticising Park tools per se. Most are quite decent, but in many cases there are items of equal or better utility and longevity for less money from other sources - in the main they're expensive without sufficient justification.

And they are american of course. Which naturally tends to increase the price of stuff.

By the by, if anyone is after a crank puller, a tool which needs to be pretty good, I can recommend this cheapo affair:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/x-tools-cra...c|pcrid|67090840622|pkw||pmt||prd|100224073uk

 

[bpsmith]

I don't think anyone said that. I think a few folk said that more expensive isn't necessarily better. That's something entirely different and very true.

Not suggesting everyone has that view, but it's certainly prevalent on here and other forums too.

PS - some folk, not necessarily you, do buy stuff for bling points. I admit to taking a certain perverse satisfaction at someone on a bling bike abandoning a Kent ride I was leading - just before we retired to a fine fine pub - and a banker turning up on a full suss multi springed wonder for a London Brighton ride I was leading - and being mighty pleased 20 miles in that he persuaded a friend of his to ride it so that he could ride his friend's more basic affair.

This says it all tbh. Saying "Not necessarily you" doesn't excuse what follows as being acceptable. Perfect demonstration of the reverse snobbery I am referring to.

 

[Blue Hills]

aw relax bp - a staple of comedy the world over since the beginning of time is folk making a bit of a pratt of themselves, the gap between their perceived self image (which they may have worked at a bit too hard) and reality.

I'd get the tools out, of whatever brand, get greased up, and do a bit of therapeutic fettling.

 

[Blue Hills]

very generous of you to like that post of mine bp. happy easter

 

[bpsmith]

Fair enough.

Perhaps I just don't get it. I don't see any fun in ridiculing someone who spends money on a nice bike, who happens not to be as fast as someone on a less expensive bit of kit. If both are happy, enjoying the same sport and not judging one another, then what's the issue?

Perhaps the people concerned act different to each other in different geographical locations?

 

[bpsmith]

very generous of you to like that post of mine bp. happy easter

No worries. Happy Easter to you too.

Words on a forum can be read many different ways. I am not taking offence to anything above, just enjoying the different viewpoints even if different to my own.