The price gradient of massage chairs is comparable to the mobile phone market. From the "entry-level" of 1000 to the "luxury" of hundreds of thousands, there are almost many brands to choose from. From a technical point of view, massage chairs are not even as high as smart phones (refer to Apple/Samsung/Huawei). Why is there such a big price difference?

The biggest factor: brand premium.

If there are not many functions of two or three thousand entry-level massage chairs, then there are not so many functions of tens of thousands of big brands. (digression: someone pointed out with ulterior motives that there is no difference between the two. Buying big brands is also misleading. From the actual experience, tens of thousands of massage chairs bring much better comfort (or massage effect) than two or three thousand. But the essence of comfort is a subjective feeling, and there is no objective standard to measure pricing. Just like 1 set of 20000 yuan massage chairs will never bring people the pleasure of 10 times that of 1 set of 2000 yuan massage chairs. Judging from the massage effect, the massage chair with a price of 50,000 yuan may not be as good as the skilled blind technician with a unit price of 188. But this does not prevent local tyrants from buying a big-name massage chair in order to honor their parents. After all, the chair can be used all the time when it is plugged in, and it can be used every day. And blind technicians invite them home every day for service, which may not only be a matter of cost.

Then, can I buy two or three thousand massage chairs? This question is like "Do you want to buy 500 yuan for Android smart features?" If your demand is entry-level, of course, you can buy it: the basic functions can be used, but the effect is not very good, and even the problem of jamming/fever will appear from time to time, which is quite annoying. For this relatively mature product, the experience and market price of massage chair basically conform to the law of direct ratio. For example, a person with "sensitive muscles" like me took the initiative to stop after experiencing a product with a market price of 8800 for less than 5 minutes. At that time, they made up their minds that if they want to buy it, they must buy one with 65438+100000 or more. The premise is, of course, after making money.