"Big Al" wrote

| With USB drives there is an issue of quality that GB/$ does not compute.
| I shop by speed/GB/$ I've found 32g for 5$ but they only show 10mbs
| write speed. Then another for 12$ and it's more in the 50mbs range.
|
I didn't know that. I'll have to check next time.
Though they all seemed to say USB3. And in many
cases the prices were different for the same GB
in the same brand.

| I agree with prev posts, a wooden canoe ore is a wooden ore. A gallon
| of bleach is a gallon of bleach. Some things you can easily compare.
|
Whoa. Not so quick.
Bleach depends on the % of sodium hypochlorite.
I find it can be anywhere in the range of 3-8, typically
4 or 5. The Clorox name brand may usually cost more,
though even Clorox seems to have several strengths.

I suppose 10 people would have 10 very different
lists of products that are "all the same". My ladyfriend,
an otherwise intelligent and reasonable person, will
spend stunning amounts of money for various skin
cremes that are all, essentially, mineral oil, water
and an emulsifier. To me they're all the same. The
only difference being whether a vegetable oil is used
in place of mineral oil. That justifies a slightly higher
price. But last time I checked in CVS, unit pricing for
moisturizing cremes went as high as $2,600/
gallon. For mineral oil. Of course a given product
may have a trace of Vitamin E, shea butter, or even
placenta(!), but it basically just comes down to
packaging and advertising mineral oil.... and how well
they make a case for erasing wrinkles.

Even my dermatologist falls for that. She recommended
Amlactin cream to me. Crazy expensive stuff. Mineral
oil. Secret ingredient: lactic acid. Probably about
5 cents worth of it.