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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JerryLogan" data-source="post: 3499273" data-attributes="member: 129128">Lee,No, very much to the contrary!!! I agree almost entirely with you. I believe that there are "alpha" objects and experiences and that they may well be worth the price for those who can genuinely use or experience the difference.We may differ in this - the extent to which most people would actually experience/use the difference and  their real ability to perceive the quality of the difference in actual use.The pleasure of your Skoda is real!!! If somehow we could blind people to what they were driving so they only experienced the sensation of the drive, how many would feel the sensation of a 911 as "better" as opposed to "different"? Particularly on the NJ Turnpike? Of those who say "better", how many will say $100K better? So I think I'm very close to your thinking on this. What's the real experience I'm going to have and how often will I have it?  But the cynic(?) in me thinks that's a very hard question to answer. I've lived in California wine country now for a long time. Most people can distinguish a genuine $10 from a genuine $50 wine. Maybe one or two people in a hundred can distinguish between a $50 and $250 bottle. Unless you show the labels first. Then everybody's an expert!  But I wonder what the label experts are really buying when they pay the extra $200.Very best Jerry</blockquote>