Phat

It was about perceptions .
The OP perceived that single wall tents are a cheap ( as in nasty ) alternative, my point was that they are not necessaraly "low quality" hence the various top brands mentioned nor cheap in price ( IE comparing Kelty/Eureka/Sierra Design $79-149 tents with the $179-289 Tarptents, never mind the $550-700+ Stephenson's)
I use two Tarptents so there is no argument about the value.
As a buyer for a busy photographic shop I had to keep focusing on how customers perceived products not on what I knew about a product. A common frustration amongst specialist retail salespersons is juggling between trying to educate the public in buying better products (spending a lot of time doing so and risking to lose a sale) or just selling what people perceive to be a better product.
For example when Samsung were making cameras for Minolta and some models for Nikon , Olympus and others, I still had to consider that most customers would purchase the same model with their "perceived" better brand on it regardless of the fact that the camera was the same.
Franco