What are some ways in which expensive products can be worse than cheaper ones?

Examples that come to my mind:

* Expensive clothes can be much less convenient to clean
* In expensive hotel rooms it's often harder to figure out how to turn off all the lights
* Expensive restaurants often have less choice in menus

Expensive sunglasses break more easily than cheap ones.

Tell me I'm wrong 😎

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On a similar note, I haven't been keeping track formally but I have noticed a roughly zero correlation between how expensive shoes are and how long they last.

Interesting! For me shoes pretty much always last 6-15 months. It could be that I walk a lot?

Less sure about this one, based on my expense.

I have a pair of very nice (and expensive) Allen Edmonds.

They require regular maintenance (ie, polishing the leather and resoling them) but they've been going strong for 15 years!

Margins are usually >7x markup with these types of items. That markup is mostly benefitting your social stats vs function. Replicas (S tier and up) can give you the function without paying ridiculous prices.