If you buy crap you get crap. Price and cost are two very different things
Of course price and cost are two different things, people aren’t going to sell something for what it cost them.
Need you mean price vs value?
I wouldn't say a $1,500 for each TV set was cheap. Both were the same brand and cost near the same and were some of the better sets available. I don't buy the cheap stuff. They both went out with the same symptoms close to same time period after the warranty expired.