Answer Our Tech Value Survey to Win a $500 Amazon Gift Card

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We want to know what you consider to be reasonable prices for today's gadgets. Your responses will help inform our top picks for the Best Tech Values awards.

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[the_burtons]

What a stupid survey! The prices offered were clueless. In almost every case, I would have chosen less than the minimum choice offered. (I was linked here from techbargains.com)

I am not going to spend more for a "smart speaker" than an Amazon fire 7 HD. Why pay more for a speaker than a fully fuctional tablet?

Minimum price it listed for a smartphone $200? Never paid that much for one, plenty of very good Android phones under $200, even $100 if you shop around at all. Also, AT&T Iphone SE's available for $149 many places.

I think it was $900 for a desktop system? Clueless. I build my own, but easy to build or buy a system for half that.

Start the catagories at 0$ to your current min, and also show an N/A. I am not going to buy a camera these days. I have several sitting around because no one in the family uses one since they always have their phone with them. Why pick a price for something I know I would not buy. Seems to just gather useless information.

Maybe only 2 questions that I would answer the same way I did if there were appropriate choices.

 

[kathouse543]

I would love to own a nice smartphone that really work great like a galaxy 8

 

[crimsonfancy]

@the_burtons hmm. I build my own desktop pc as well and would still spend $1500 but probably wouldn't buy a gaming console even with exclusives that look great. I'd also spend $800 on a mobile phone. Everybody prioritizes tech gadgets differently. When it comes to tech and food I'm interested in, I research and spend what it takes for the best available imo. I don't however subscribe to cable or satellite tv services so I save there. I also prefer to have a vehicle that's under 5 years old and practical so 40k for a full size, middle of the road pickup truck is where I top out as long as I can get bluetooth and in some cases navigation included. Stereo system is least of a concern in my vehicle because talk radio is all I listen to on the road.

 

[the_burtons]

@CrimsonFancy, Everyone has their preferences, and prioritizes things differently. My point was to the survey design not being all inclusive, with very easy examples where.

 

[USAFRet]

Some of those choices needed far more granularity. And some/most/all of them needed a "None"

Bluetooth speaker? $0
Tablet for a 'child'? That depends...is the child 6 or 16? Different tablets.
Phone? My current $25 phone is just fine. More granularity...

 

[lynettthomas59]

Yes I Like This....

 

[AdviserKulikov]

Half these things I wouldn't spend any money on, but would accept for free/cheaper than a comparable alternative.

I have no reason for a 4K TV over a full HD TV my vision isn't that good at TV ranges, and I would be getting a monitor or headset for 4K. So the real question is how much value would I add over a standard TV of the same size, and the answer is: it varies. For a 40 inch bedroom TV it would be worthless, for a living room movie display I would consider it maybe $50 extra for when I'm walking past the TV to not notice pixels.

I have no reason at all for tablets, drones, smart speakers, bluetooth speakers, earbuds, etc.

 

[natashaedwards84]

would to win thanks