you get what you pay for

you get what you pay for

1. In commercial transactions, the quality of goods and services increases as the prices increase, i.e., the more one pays, the better the merchandise.
   • 1991 October 28, Janice Castro and Richard Woodbury, "The Man Who Fired a Dog To Save a Buck," Time (retrieved 4 Nov 2018):

     You get what you pay for. If you want a lower price, you can go to Motel 6..

• Used both to denigrate inexpensive goods as naturally inferior and to praise expensive goods as being of high quality.

• YGWYPF

• get one's money's worth
• value
• who pays the piper calls the tune
• you pays your money and you takes your choice