1) Similar to yours - if it is expensive, it is a cheap product being marketed as something fancy and not worth the money
2) Similar to mine - you generally get what you pay for (within reason)........
All expensive products are not a rip off while most cheap products are just that - cheap and cheerful......
I'd rather drive an MB than a Dacia or is that marketing?....
You're slightly assuming my opinion on that based on some of the facts I've stated. I own some relatively expensive products and I own some very cheap products. I have experienced both and come full circle in thinking that paying top money for some products is no necessary by default.
Swissvax are a perfect example, charging literally hundreds for difference waxes. Some of which are aimed at specific brands of paint! Let's be honest, most of that is complete nonsense as cars are by and large painted very similarly and they're all lacquered. How a carunauba based wax bond to Porsche, Mercedes, BMW paint is utterly irrelevant. It's marketing. I mean I'm sure many people out there like being able to say to others, 'The wax on my car cost XXX amount'. I don't doubt they are lovely products to use and protect the car perfectly well. Do they perform ten times better for ten times the price? No they just don't.
Also keep in mind that a lot of products (not all of course) come from the same labs as each other but vary wildly in price due to how they're marketed.
I haven't stated that all expensive products are a rip off but having experienced cheap and expensive, having conversed with various detailers and frequented detailing forums for years I can say that expensive doesn't by default make products better and cheap doesn't make them worse.
As for comparing a Dacia and a Mercedes, bit of an odd comparison really in this context. Dacia having firstly been built off the back of legacy Renault parts, some clever engineering to ensure they are as cheap to build and no frills. The opposite to a Mercedes in most cases. Like comparing a Seiko watch which is cheap and mass produced and a Patek Phillipe that took hundreds of hours to make individual parts.
If Dacia and Mercedes were built in the same factory, it would lend more relevance where many detailing products are!
I'm far from someone who buys everything cheap as like you say, some things are simply not built as well as other things but you have to exercise an element of cynicism with detailing, there is a lot of marketing. There are some great cheap products though and some great expensive ones!
