[5String43]

I think there's a point of diminishing returns with most of the stuff we buy, whether we're talking cameras or cars or guitars or shotguns or Scotch or whatever. My strategy is to buy used, when possible, and to try to find the point, new or used, where additional money buys stuff I don't need - like fancy engraving and wood on a shotgun (which won't help me break more clays), fancy inlaying on a guitar (it's pretty, but it doesn't make it sound any better), 18-year-old Scotch rather than 12-year-old Scotch, and so on. I also think, that for me, anyway, it's worthwhile to buy good stuff and just keep it. Your results probably vary. But that's how I approach things.