Quaility and price go hand in hand

[uks]

Is there a connection between price and quaility?.

I will give you an example of something i found out.

I was looking at buying a large salt fly reel the ownly place to get it was the US. In the end i narrowed it down to 2 one was priced at $299 and the other priced at $699. Both had the features i was looking for. It seemed did i want to pay $699 for a well known brand with a repution or $299 for a reel from what was to me an unknown "manufacture".
So i did a little digging around i found a "Chinese" Manufacture making these reels. I e-mailed them about the reels and was told i could buy 50 reels for $50 each and i could have them laser etched for an extra $5 each. Now this is the thing that shocked me both of the reels i was thinking about buying were both supplied by this Chinese company and were in fact the same reel.

I feel that this is the same with most things we are buying. I got 2 summer tesco own brand sleeping bags 18 months i think i payed £17 ea for them. Ive had no problem and im thinking of buy 2 winter bags that can go down to -18 for £26 each.

I will let you draw your own conclusions from this.