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Having bought many grills in my life and including Weber's, I can tell you, I think.

First, you're paying for the name. You can get the same quality elsewhere if you look hard enough (and get a little lucky) for less money.

But secondly, you are paying for quality. Weber's higher-end stuff is actually extremely well made, very durable, and will last a long time. I owned one of the old iconic red Weber grills and it worked perfectly for 20 years.

But don't buy their cheap stuff because you can buy the same level stuff for half the price. It will not last and is basically the same thing as the char broils and the other low end grills.

So that's probably a nice grill and you can probably buy as nice a grill for a couple hundred dollars less if you do the work.
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Nice and Kind Vic 7mo ago

I have a commercial series dual fuel Char-Broil with the same number of burners and similar size grilling area with rotisserie. These go new for about 50-60% the cost of the Weber.

Luckily I got mine used, cleaned it up, replaced consumable components and stuff that was rusting apart. I'll keep using it till I get tempted to buy something new. I've probably spent about $180 to $200 total on it

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M0053 7mo ago

This is another great point. You can get spare parts for the Charbroil for reasonable price. The low-end webbers, just to get a set of burners is going to cost about the same that a new grill would. And I didn't mean to say that my char broil comment in the earlier post was a diss to them. They make good, generally cheaper grills. I'm sure they have some high-end stuff too.