We had these professionally done by a regional dealer. What shocked me were the sometimes insane prices.
The planning was free and is part of this dealer’s service,
… part of the sales service. Even a regional specialist provider makes their mixed calculation.
Now the question is whether the spots for e.g. €100, i.e. the middle range, can be equivalent to those for €250?
I don’t think so. Whether they are worth €250 is another matter, but I am convinced that they are of higher quality than hardware store or Amazon goods.
Do you perhaps have a few brands to stick to? Basically price-performance?
Price/performance is relative. With lamps just as with kitchen appliances: I’m not very familiar with current lamp brands, but for many, comparable performance in kitchen appliances only starts from Neff, Miele, among others. More affordable brands are rejected. For the brand Occhio: if you like it and want to have it, you just have to pay the price. Personally, I find €500 as a light source completely overrated. Not only that: I find them absolutely and totally ugly. Regarding internet prices: one should consider that many online retailers cannot deliver immediately because they have no warehouse. As an end consumer, you are dependent on a few intermediaries, so sometimes you have to wait several months until they tell you that nothing is deliverable anymore. Of course, you have already paid due to prepayment. Many online retailers only exist for a few years, then returns are impossible. Then the comparison with household appliances like Bosch: the production number reveals that special batches are made for the market. If you buy the same device from a specialist dealer, the last number or letter is different and the device is more expensive… one can ask oneself whether some small parts are of lower quality… And last but not least, the low price may be offered by a fake/fraud company. That doesn’t happen so rarely either. In this respect, in my opinion, one has to weigh the purchase on the internet with high prices a bit: not all that glitters is gold.