Highs, Mids, or Lows and why?

Hello,

As the title states: what do you usually buy and why?

I am wondering because I see a whole bunch of people on these subs purchasing top shelf bud or concentrates and when I've been at a dispo, I very very rarely see anyone getting anything top shelf, whether it's flower or preroll or concentrates. Also I might want to be convinced to go top shelf if the reasons are there.

I personally buy Mids. I've bought the top and bought the bottom and they all seem to do the same thing, get me high. After going to the dispo and the budtender is telling me how this was top but got moved to mids cause it's a little older...well alright! That fact alone dropped the price from 45 an eighth to 25 and it was still great quality. I've always been a quantity over quality person when it came to weed, I've always appreciated chronic bud, but it seems like the top shelf just has attributes I appreciate but not enough to pay double+ when the effects are the same to me. Most top shelf stuff I've seen or smoked has very good bag appeal and smells good, usually harvested recently.

Recently another budtender told me "I have this exact strain in my top shelf, it smells and tastes better, but this here is going to have the same effects for half the price" Again that was after explaining to him I'm all about the effects now days, not the other characteristics that make some bud chronic. I just can bring myself to pay 40 bucks an eighth anymore, I also smoke like a half ounce on my weekends...so it's multifaceted.