Well … to put all emotions aside, no rum is worth more than 100 EUR if it’s just about zipping. You can easily find good, drinkable rum around 50 EUR or less especially if you like Agricole where quality is still very affordable in my opinion.
The more expensive rum really is about emotions. May it be secret stories about chocolate casks from Panama, famous stills from Guyana that are extremely old and still in operation after being moved through several distilleries, unnaturally clean and perfect rum from Japan (oh that one is still below 100 EUR if it’s not coming from Velier), famous closed distilleries like Caroni or Gardel … I can make an endless list but usually when I drink expensive rum there is some emotion to it and it’s not just zipping the stuff away for fun.
And then … there are the flippers of course selling bottles at insane prices sometimes to each other creating a market that actually doesn’t exist (in terms of people drinking a specific rum above a specific price). The Caroni market is especially broken in this regard with so many bottles gathering dust somewhere instead of them being consumed. I almost want to go as far that Caroni rum has the worst ratio regarding bottles produced vs. bottles actually opened 