value for money

value for money (uncountable)

1. A reasonable amount and quality of goods or services for the amount of money one spends.

   The new car was good value for money.

   Her customers always get good value for money.

   • 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:

     'With a better value for money offer for our customers we may be able to look at what we do with fares going forward.'

   • 2024 October 2, Philip Haigh, “Different types of passengers require different types of fare”, in RAIL, number 1019, page 54:

     How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors.
     It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."

• good value
• VFM (initialism)

• “value for money”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.