If I were to compare it to... let's say... scopes, I'd frame it this way.
Cheap: spend $199-$299, & get a CharBroil, etc. This gets you a blister pack beauty from WalMart. It even looks like a scope.
Functional & Competent: spend $600 - $800, and get a Weber, Vermont Castings, etc. You step all the way up into a VX3 / Conquest level product. Solid performance, solid company backing it. Will last for decades, easily maintained, replacement parts (if ever needed) fit perfectly, and will return it to original working condition.
Sky is the limit: spend $1500 - ??? and get a stainless steel clad, infrared heating element behemoth. This is the next step, & you go all the way to Nightforce.
As I see it, one pays way too much for what they get on the low level of grills. There's a huge jump in quality, for not a whole lot more shekels to go up to the Weber level.
FC
