The other point that this sort of thinking misses is that first time buyers are often just not educated. For instance, I don't know how many times in my life I

The other point that this sort of thinking misses is that first time buyers are often just not educated. For instance, I don't know how many times in my life I decided I needed X. I bough X thinking it would fulfill my needs. After talking to the X owners group, I realize that my variation of X doesn't do this other thing that I now find would be very useful. Now I want X' that has this feature. This goes on and on. However, unless a company makes X''' that has every feature available in the known universe, I have no shot of finding what I really want/need. This also boils down to good advice I got long ago. Buy once, cry once. Meaning: do you research, determine what you need and buy that thing, not the entry level thing.