Ease up, my fellow modeler, don't get steamed at poor me just because I prefer to shop around rather than pay top dollar on blind faith. I can buy more modeling stuff by doing it that way. I'm not new to the hobby, my experience goes back a long way.

Are you sure you don't purchase "knock offs" in your daily life? Do you only wear designer clothing and not the knock offs made in the same factory? Do you drive around looking for the highest priced gasoline even though unmarked tanker trucks deliver the same gas to "Joe's Gas Station" from the same refinery? "Joe" doesn't have his own refinery, you know.
I'm with you for buying name brand servos like Futaba. You do stay away from those cheap Hitec's, don't you?
Since you mentioned models from Chip and Quique, I'll say that I do admire their great flying skills and accomplishments but my spending is not guided by hero worship.

Oh, did I neglect to mention that I too have a Chip Hyde Cap-X?.....LOL