[RSS]: Shoud we mention value for money in our reviews?

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Many of the conclusions of our recent reviews have been dominated by commentary about the price of the set and whether we think it's good value for money, and this aspect often overshadows our verdict on the model itself.

I therefore began to wonder: are we at risk of sounding like a broken record, and is there actually any merit in us mentioning whether we think a set is good value or not, given it's a very subjective measure?

I asked CapnRex101 for his view on this and he thought that we'd be at risk of receiving criticism in the comments if we didn't, given it's an important part of any set, and that it's worth discussing the price because "at least there is variety in how egregious the prices are nowadays!"

My view is that with prices on the increase in Europe next month I think it's fair to say that there will be very few sets that will represent good value for money by today's benchmark, so perhaps it would be better not to mention it at all and let you, the reader, make up your own mind. The criteria you use to determine it are likely to be different to ours, after all.

What do you think?

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