What's actually worth buying

One is $444. The other is $299. They are not the same kind of tool, and the price gap is not the point.

Six steps, $274.39. Two of them are doing a job another product already does, and one pairing will make your skin sting.

$22 a tube and 4.6 / 5 on Amazon Australia. A tube lasts about a month, which makes the real number $264 a year.

One is $542.99. One is $349. The difference between them is a cable, and whether that is worth $193.99 to you.

$484.67, 4.6 / 5 on Amazon Australia, and genuinely the one people ask about. Whether it's worth buying depends entirely on how often you'd wear it.

$33 for 70 pads, 4.7 / 5 on Amazon Australia. Pores don't close — here's what does change, and whether that's worth it.

An eleven-fold price spread, and results that do not spread anything like as far. Where the money stops buying better hair.

$56.98 against $29.99. They look like rivals on a shelf and they solve completely different problems.

$27.99, 4.5 / 5 on Amazon Australia. No white cast, and a bottle lasts me 30 to 40 days — which is the number that actually decides this.

$24.95 for four sheets and 4.7 / 5 on Amazon Australia. It works, the effect holds most of the day — and not for the reason the name gives you.

$84.95, 4.6 / 5 on Amazon Australia. A 5% glycolic you leave on — which makes how you use it matter more than what you paid.

$399.95 against $174.97. They are different shapes of headphone, and the shape decides this long before the $224.98 does.

From $16.77 to $78.53. Two of these five are worth the money, one is actively not, and the reason has nothing to do with the brands.

$189.99 against $161.43. One is a signature you wear all year, the other is a season — and the $28.56 between them answers nothing.

Six tech gift ideas from $30.35 to $633. The cheapest and the dearest are rated the same, and the two in between are rated worst. Which to buy, and which to wait for.

Six Amazon finds from $56.99 to $249. The best-rated is not the dearest, and one of them has a subscription hiding behind the price.

$109 for a night serum that works in weeks rather than days. What that patience buys, and the two people who should spend the money elsewhere.

$83 a can, rated 4.5 / 5. What it does that cheaper texture sprays don't, and the reason people either repurchase it forever or give it away.

$41.46 against $35.99, and they are not alternatives. Which one reactive skin needs, which one dehydrated skin needs, and the order if you buy both.

$78.53 against $43.87. One disappears politely, one is the whole look, and the price gap is not buying a better lipstick.