goes to show that sometimes being cheap is better then being expensive
919628
It's decent, stop my phone from shattering when I dropped it. Hence the 5 stars lol. I got it because it was cheap, goes to show that sometimes being cheap is better then being expensive.
1737676
It doesn't look very nice. The black sorrounding the image makes it look cheaper.
1448236
looks nicer in the picture, but considering what I paid for it, I find it hard to complain too much.
3250421
While not as in good a condition as I expected from the description, I can't complain as it was so inexpensive .
4624765
I feel it's priced a little high and comparable with some cheaper well known brands.
2104393
It's cheap. The quality and material is not that nice, but it was cheap and plain enough to be worth it.
2410417
Don't feel bad if you lose one bc it's so cheap and good. Got kids so they lose all the time.
897790
One of those rare buys where it may be better than the original.
2714615
Its fine. No problems. however, one could probably find cheaper at one of those famous brand Home goods, and they'd likely have a comparable 'fluff -up' quality.
2878739
Not I high end product, but a very decent one for the design and cost.
1769819
My wife loved ti , it does look kinda cheap in real life but its the thought that counts , next time I'll get her a better one.
2500317
I think the title says it all.  That being said, it's still a good diversion if you can buy it cheap.
723391
The book shouts from the cover the word in big letters: CHEAP.

But that's only half the story.  If I remember correctly, she states somewhere that the real thesis of the book is not about cheapness, but about thriftiness and frugality.  The problem is, would you pick up a book that shouted from the cover in big letters: FRUGALITY?

I probably wouldn't, but that is why we have marketers.  When I have to think of the central word, I think not of a consumer too hard to part from their money; I instead think of a bargain that doesn't last, the dime-store clown shoes whose vinyl cracks on the first wear.  Only in passing do I think of a tightwad.

What this book is is a history of that characteristic that we have so many words for; the dead opposite of a fool and his money.  What Weber reviews is the history of the popularity of thriftiness, and not surprisingly it follows the business and political cycles.  One day everyone is eating sawdust and the next people are lighting cigars with currency, as long as it isn't German.  What she does very well is dispel the notion that Thrift is some bedrock American value that we are forever getting away from.  It is part of "Kids these days" syndrome, where everything was better back then).  It is a fashion that cycles with the times.

She transitions from the history and looks at the current state of thriftiness.  The most interesting for me is her extended look at people that consider themselves Freegans or are honest with themselves and call themselves dumpster divers.  This is a group of people who have tried to remove themselves as far as possible from the consumptive society.  While these people are interesting, I was missing one thing.  The biggest critique of such a movement to me, is that they are parasitical in a way I don't mean to be derogatory.  They opt out of buying things, but their lifestyle depends on others buying and discarding the consumer goods and foods that they then can appropriate.  It works as a fringe movement, but it doesn't scale up.

For me, that seems to reflect my ultimate issue with Cheapness as a movement, even the 'Ethical Cheapness" Weber calls for.  It feels like a first world issue that we can wear at our choosing and still splurge.  It hides the real effects of poverty and the degradation of the planet that capitalism imposes to all of the riders.  As long as cheapness and thrift are choices we can look at them as idiosyncrasies.  The problem is that thrift is a necessity for billions, but that we can ignore in the first world.  I enjoyed the book, and I kept wanting more, I just wish that issue would have been looked at more in depth, especially as she moved from history and into personalizing the experience later in the book.
2004693
You can feel that it's got some extra movement in the system, not as tight and high quality as other, similar, more expensive cubes. Still, it works, it looks great, it's cheap, and I like it.
4900520
I didn't pay a lot for this item, but it is a bit cheaper than what I thought it would be.
4698848
It gets the job done well, but the more expensive model looks a lot better for a few more bucks.
1274332
The picture makes it look nicer than it really is, but it wasn't bad over all.