You are close to fitting a stereotype as in being I want it before I think I do!! I still look for commensurate value can't help it, but totally get your appreciation of quality. We all come from different places but I always go for quality albeit that compromise of cost.
Btw I can't upload pics of my lovely with photobucket it seems the 3rd party gremlin has struck, any Free alternatives Booth and ta for the pointers to date. 
If you are referring to me.....what a load of crap you talk.
I bought nothing (apart from a water filter, after years of battling hard water detailing black cars) for my R, including pedal box and S2T shifters, until I’d had the car and had run it for several months completely stock. By then, it had become very apparent that a couple of things needed addressing to remedy areas of increasing disappointment with the car, namely the throttle response, and the oem paddles. Regards the S2T shifters, there was a long lead-in time to purchasing them. Before the mk7 R, I had DSG mk6 and mk5 GTI’s and put up with the crappy stubby plastic oem shifters for years but finally, with the mk7 R, decided enough was enough, and if VW were going to persist with continuing to fit such poor shifters, then I would replace them once and for all. So I hardly think driving with oem paddles for nearly 8 years before finally buying some S2T’s constitutes “I want it before I think I do”.
As for photo posting, see your other post in the other thread and the helpful suggestions in there from forum members.
