Toilet from €27.90 to €500 - objective information on the price difference?

Hi!

After we received a hefty offer for the bathroom equipment amounting to around €22,200 (of which around €900 is for one toilet bowl), I just came back from the recovery room of the intensive care unit and am now dealing with toilet bowls.

The rimless wall-mounted toilet from the company with the + offered as a private label seems, according to my research, to be from the company Laufen and has an average rating of 1/5 stars on Amazon. Reason: Water splashes out the front, quality apparently mediocre.

Now I was at the hardware store (*cough*) and see there:
- Regular wall-mounted toilet €29
- Rimless wall-mounted toilet €89
- Brand rimless toilet €300

When asked, the saleswoman told me, "Oh, it doesn’t matter, they all work equally well, with the brand manufacturer you just pay for the name."

The super-duper premium rimless toilet from TOTO with Tornado Flush I find online for about €380.

In my apartment there is a roughly 35-year-old toilet, by now with many dull spots, on which the poop still wonderfully finds a home. I clean it every few weeks with some Ente and the brush. So far no one has complained.

So now quite stupidly asked: Where on earth is the difference?

Thank you very much for your input!

The design.

I don’t think much of it either, even with the coatings, I find it all exaggerated.

For me, it will be a rimless [spülrabdloses] from Villeroy and Boch for 200 euros simply because I like the design.

What do you think, why are Ideal Standard or similar brands still installed in the public or commercial sector? These things are cheap, durable, and work. For years. A similar hype is made about sinks or faucets, also nonsense. The ideal faucet is well chrome-plated, mixes, is tight, and shines. And water comes out. It is clear that the design has to be paid for. But only one thing justifies these markups, the demand. It is being paid for. It is not quality that drives the price so high. Karsten

Only the design?! Nothing else?! Unbelievable...

I mean, for a price difference of €550, I would accept almost any design... if necessary, the body will be covered with foam, smoothed, filled, and then painted...

At least with rimless toilets, there still seem to be differences when it comes to splashing.

Why does Ikea sell bathroom ceramics, washbasins, decent faucets probably with good design at such different prices? Do you think they are produced so differently than Keramag does? It's the same with kitchen furniture. Inside it's always chipboard. On the outside coated with something from the chemical toolbox.

Quantities are probably the main reason. The standard ones are simply produced in much higher numbers. Advertising, design, whatever, have less impact.