Interesting survey, John!

Partly the apparent steepness of a price-point is a function of the necessity presented by the object. You might happily spend $300 on a new washer if yours was totalled suddenly, but not, say, on an internet guise service or something that you could do yourself with a little effort.

$100 seems expensive to me, in the ordinary run of things, but not for a car! :) Not even for a multi-function printer. For a hand-crafted objet d'art, I would spend it gladly if the piece had that mystic compelling feel that some art has and other pieces lack.

The $1 trheshold is even harder to pin down in my mind -- 9-10$ is a big threshold if you are pinching pennies. I think 29-30 is a psychological ceiling, myself, depending on the scale of purchase being contemplated. And the jump from hundreds to >$1000 is a real chiller.

Hope this helps.


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