you buy cheap, you get cheap

you buy cheap, you get cheap

1. Inexpensive goods and services tend to be inferior to more expensive ones.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

     No more of that stuff, please and thank you. American Grain, my rosy red ass. Someone should have told those babies you put the fertilizer on the hops before you grow em, not after. A headache on three lousy beers! Gosh! Well—you buy cheap, you get cheap.

• if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
• you get what you pay for