The one that offers the best value. It's not necessarily the cheapest, nor the most expensive, nor the one on sale, nor the one with the best reviews.
Cheap stuff can be just fine when they're cheap; just buy extras. Likewise, better quality/durability/reliability can be worth the higher prices too. It all depends.
I look at big name shops with the best top brands of what I'm interested in at the time and note the price THEN I go to one of two happy sites that I use and check to see if they have the same (or similar) top brand names, compare both brands similarities then compare prices (1) in relation to the big name shop then (2) compare prices of the second same brand with the third similar brand then (4) purchase the one that's closest to my needs and if none compare within my budget then I scour various one sale a day sites (like meh) to see if I can sedate myself from the failure by buying something for almost nothing and if they don't come through then I fluff my pillow and call it a day. Some people call me a shopper with a brain.. I say, define brain.
I don't budget accurately enough to be able to know exactly how much I'm able to spend on some random item. $1? My life's savings? Who knows! I just know I "need" it.
So I could just buy the cheapest and be done with it. But the cheapest sucks! It probably won't even work correctly in the first place, never mind break.
I could get the most quality thing, then, because it will last forever and outlive me, etc etc. But the most quality thing costs 10 times more money than the cheapest thing. Am I really going to go through 10 cheapo things in the time before I lose the quality thing? Probably not. Whatever it is I'll probably drop it off a cliff by the end of the year, anyway.
i usually decide i need or want something and then decide what i really need and determine what that it is going to cost me. i don't like to buy cheap or top of the line unless that is what i decide i need. like i said, i buy what i determine i really need and more or less just do it. it is the process that usually always works for me and i ain't going to change it now. meh is usually a "gotta have it thing" rather than a need or want kinda thing. it breaks my process completely and that's not a bad thing.
Trying to avoid really cheap stuff, I usually actually read reviews. Sometimes a negative review is a positive for me, wherein somebody complains that the item doesn't fulfill a role for which it is not intended, or needs some sort of thought process to operate.
The best I can afford. Buy once, cry once. Cheap shit breaks.
@duodec Agreed!
The one that offers the best value. It's not necessarily the cheapest, nor the most expensive, nor the one on sale, nor the one with the best reviews.
Cheap stuff can be just fine when they're cheap; just buy extras. Likewise, better quality/durability/reliability can be worth the higher prices too. It all depends.
@narfcake I was kinda surprised a version of this wasn't in the poll. It's not about price, it's about quality within budget.
I look at big name shops with the best top brands of what I'm interested in at the time and note the price THEN I go to one of two happy sites that I use and check to see if they have the same (or similar) top brand names, compare both brands similarities then compare prices (1) in relation to the big name shop then (2) compare prices of the second same brand with the third similar brand then (4) purchase the one that's closest to my needs and if none compare within my budget then I scour various one sale a day sites (like meh) to see if I can sedate myself from the failure by buying something for almost nothing and if they don't come through then I fluff my pillow and call it a day. Some people call me a shopper with a brain.. I say, define brain.
I don't budget accurately enough to be able to know exactly how much I'm able to spend on some random item. $1? My life's savings? Who knows! I just know I "need" it.
So I could just buy the cheapest and be done with it. But the cheapest sucks! It probably won't even work correctly in the first place, never mind break.
I could get the most quality thing, then, because it will last forever and outlive me, etc etc. But the most quality thing costs 10 times more money than the cheapest thing. Am I really going to go through 10 cheapo things in the time before I lose the quality thing? Probably not. Whatever it is I'll probably drop it off a cliff by the end of the year, anyway.
So, definitely second-cheapest thing.
i usually decide i need or want something and then decide what i really need and determine what that it is going to cost me. i don't like to buy cheap or top of the line unless that is what i decide i need. like i said, i buy what i determine i really need and more or less just do it. it is the process that usually always works for me and i ain't going to change it now. meh is usually a "gotta have it thing" rather than a need or want kinda thing. it breaks my process completely and that's not a bad thing.
@bayportbob appreciate your willingness to stretch the boundaries of your shopping habits.
Trying to avoid really cheap stuff, I usually actually read reviews. Sometimes a negative review is a positive for me, wherein somebody complains that the item doesn't fulfill a role for which it is not intended, or needs some sort of thought process to operate.
@PocketBrain I do this with Yelp / restaurant reviews all the time. I love going to places that treated some total idiot like they were a total idiot.
I'll take the best woman, drink, or gun money can buy anything else who cares?
@RedHot I read that as womn, drink, or gum. I was confused why you cared so much about gum.
@MrMark If you're here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, you don't want to run out of bubble gum.
Whichever one's Prime.