Timeline for Name that fallacy: If it's more expensive it must be better
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| Jul 20 at 21:45 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 20 at 21:11 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 30, 2022 at 14:01 | comment | added | gnasher729 | What I was told about washing machines: Always buy the cheapest model of the most expensive brand. The expensive brand gives you the quality. Buying more than the cheapest model gives you lots of switches and blinkenlights that you never use. | |
| May 2, 2021 at 18:59 | comment | added | Benjamin Harman | I'm going with it being a plain old non sequitur, a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.. | |
| May 2, 2021 at 18:49 | answer | added | Charles Machakwa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 6:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/682092514690596865 | ||
| Dec 30, 2015 at 0:09 | vote | accept | Dave | ||
| Dec 29, 2015 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 24, 2015 at 19:22 | comment | added | Dave | @Elmo Excellent example! I edited my question to include them. | |
| Dec 24, 2015 at 19:21 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added another great example
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| Dec 24, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | Elmo | Case in point: HDMI cables | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 22:02 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | Not an answer, but there's a concept of a "price placebo", where expensive medications have a stronger placebo effect than cheap medications. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:33 | answer | added | Henry Henrinson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 17:33 | answer | added | kyle sexton | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 15:53 | answer | added | Damian Yerrick | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 7:13 | answer | added | 200_success | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 3:18 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | From the other side, it is a marketing concept called "prestige pricing". In other words, a product might have its price increased for the purpose of making it seem better. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 3:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 23, 2015 at 2:53 | comment | added | Drew | It is not a logical fallacy. It is an opinion/belief/hypothesis. What is red is good and alligators are plants are not arguments, and are not fallacious. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 0:47 | comment | added | rhetorician | But the more expensive higher-octane gas is, admittedly, BETTER for high-compression-engine cars, yes? Just a thought. Don | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 0:19 | answer | added | user662852 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 23:25 | comment | added | Graffito | Common belief, popular thinking, received wisdom, conventional misconception, ... | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 21:27 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 36 | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 21:14 | answer | added | Jeff Y | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 21:09 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The reason something is expensive is usually because many people want it (if there's a finite supply, the price inevitably goes up). So maybe it's argumentum ad populum (aka the bandwagon fallacy). | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 21:06 | comment | added | Jason C | I don't think this can be reduced to a simple logical fallacy, or at least, doing so wouldn't do this justice. Pricing is a very complex field, tied very closely to human psychology, and with many factors in play. The "more expensive must be better" assertion doesn't really come out of nowhere on its own, it's more of a quick summary of a much more complicated effect. For example, here's some interesting psychological aspects in pricing. Your question may actually be more appropriate in a slightly different form on CogSci or Economics. | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 21:00 | history | asked | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |