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For example, if you insist on buying Advil instead of store brand ibuprofen. I mean, you’d be wasting your money in that example, but you do you

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I honestly can't think of anything. I own many "name brand" products but it's usually a pay-once-cry-once situation. It's not like I keep buying more of the same product after I already have one.

For consumables pretty much every product I use is the generic version of some well known one. I'm not paying double the price for something that's 20% better. For example the generic version of my favourite cookies is 95 cents and the name brand is 3.4€. It's not that much better.

[–] Its1704@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That is how it is with many products. If you pay twice as much for wine it does not taste twice as good - but still noticably better.

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