Every product worth as much as their retail price or less, but never more.
Hi Rakyan,
While everyone is entitled to their subjective opinion, as yrstruly kindly added, there are market and economic dynamics that are undeniably more objective.
Without getting into complicated marketing and economics, for example, it is a simple fact that products in the market retail for a price.
Prices are determined by many factors, and then are considered fair, high or low by consumers depending on the subjective impressions of the consumers asked to pay those prices. The economic fact is that a price is just a number until someone actually pays it.
Items in a market also have what I will call "cost", meaning their cost of production, knowhow, profits, etc.
There are many items priced "highly", expected to perform "highly", whatever highly means depending on the category because they are of high cost (most times) and considered high "value", the received enjoyment let's say.. Caviar is priced "highly" because many people pay the money to have it, considering their experience with caviar of "high value".
Coming back to your quote, it can be inaccurate, simply because there are many instances in the market where you can find items that perform objectively and subjectively "higher" or "lower" their expected standard and asked price, what you called "worth". And then what happens is that people find themselves willing to pay more or less for those items than the original asked price.
How many times have you been disappointed by something you bought? How many times have you bought something, for which you payed what you thought was good money, and found you got what you considered crap?
I bet many, just like all of us.
In the same way, it does happen that we buy things or even hunt for deals that surpass our expectations, and those of the market. Well made products, priced fairly by the producer, which then find themselves competing in quality and
objective and subjective appreciation by the consumer with items of maybe higher cost and higher price. What we call good values, good deals.
This does happen as well. Small champagne producers that price their limited production jewels at far less than their bigger-name and reputation competition, which sells lower-quality product at a higher price.
SO you see, my saying the 9200s play above their league, is because they are a fairly priced item, which competes in objective and subjective appreciation and value with items that are priced way above them. This is what this statement means. A good example is what yrstruly reminds us of when quoting the still ongoing debate-clash between the 9200s and the Stellias.
I definitely stand by my statement, and will continue to consider the 9200s a "high value" product, in the face of many items priced above them.
Lui
PS Sorry for the lesson-type answer, don't mean to go professor-mode on you, just wanted to be a bit thorough on a complicated topic!