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   > features or different trim / badging - with the "heart" or "guts"   
   > being virtually the same -   
   >   
   > You pay a LOT MORE for a Kitchen Aid than for a Maytag or Whirlpool -   
   > and more yet for a JennAir -  Are you getting more / better? or just   
   > getting "prestige"?   
      
   I believe that all you're getting is prestige.  The fancy name myth of   
   assured quality has penetrated many product categories.  The most   
   expensive high prestige mechanical wrist watch is far less accurate and   
   less reliable than a quartz movement in a Casio or Timex.  Some name   
   brand fashion clothing is manufactured in sweat shops in 3rd world   
   countries in southeast Asia and sewed by machine and then the fancy   
   brand label is added.   
      
   What I've found to be disheartening when traveling is shopping for a   
   gift that is characteristic of the country and supposedly authentic, and   
   everything for sale in the gift shop has labels saying that it was made   
   in a different country thousands of miles away.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)