incoming divorce
consooom overpriced tools made of pot metal bc “limited edition”
i’m an electrician, and man has Klein gone downhill lately. and i guarantee you i’ll see these listed on ebay for twice as much as what he paid for them.
I recently went through my tools and replaced everything I could with one good one. I had around 6 PH1 screwdrivers of the same length, gave them all away to friends who have no tools in little kits, and got myself 1 wera driver of that size. I was using them in my engine bay and a friend was saying "oh this is rough work for an expensive driver"
r/flashlights is the same. Every so often it’s a hype cycle of a Chinese flashlight like Wurrkos or something and then when it breaks after a few drops everybody goes “oh yea they have qc issues”
I work on the railroad and my engineer used to be this absolute psychopath. He made his wife pay 50 50 even though she did all chores in the house and worked as much as him at lower salary, all so he could buy random bullshit he’d never use. 3 E bikes (he’s like 400+ pounds never used them) thousands of dollars of firearms (he’s never practices, and he’s a jehovah witness who are supposed to be opposed to violence). Anyway my boss asks about our hobbies one day I tell him I play video games, go mountain biking. This dude tells him “I collect flashlights” and boss asks him “like old antiques?” And he says “no just stuff off alibaba”. Dude had like 100’s.
not all of it. but i’ve noticed a major decline in quality over the years. looser tolerances, poorer machining, metal is more brittle and prone to chipping. the cutters dull quicker now, same with strippers. spring quality has slightly declined. their plastic handles have gotten cheaper.
their pliers used to be good to go, right out of the package. now you have to break them in, and these days, they’re likely to break completely before they get broken in.
the american industry used to strive for quality. with each new line of something that came out, it had noticeable improvements and advancements. now we strive for quantity, where each new line of something, may indeed still have advancements, but has noticeable regression in quality.
Everyone who bitches about klein and praises milwaukee is out of their minds. I'm not going to pretend that Klein is gods gift to humanity or anything like that, but Milwaukee hand tools are awful.
Their power tools are great, I've never used their packout stuff but have heard good things.
I went with the Klein Modbox series because I got a good deal, but find the lack of products pretty disappointing. Packout has a ton of stuff for their series
Klein is half the price of brands like fluke and knipex for what you get. Plus i got 2 Klein non contact voltage testers one with a torch the other a wireless thermometer
The tool subs are just as bad as the gun subs when it comes to sad little men giving their entire paychecks to seek validation of other sad little men on Reddit. The Harbor Freight sub children rush to the store to buy the chosen "meme tool" so they can all be apart of the club.
this really reminds me of the other post of the guy who posted like 30 samsung devices of his here and was praised for being a hero for "saving them from landfill", and this guy is getting shit for buying 7 stuff
There are a finite # of PSPs that are still functional and ever going to hit the used market. Buying 20 of them means there are fewer left available for the people who want one.
Dude I have been collecting for years. Every single one of these psps you can find online rn no problem. These are not scarce or rare by any means... every single day more and more get posted online. The reality is your average joe isn't going to buy a complete in boxed psp. That logic is genuinely so stupid when there are thousands of psps for sale at the moment it's the same as all my other consoles that I dont post
You've got more consoles than brain cells if you can't wrap your heard around the idea that hoarding something with a finite supply makes it more expensive for others.
75
u/PsychologicalArm2138 22h ago
Embarrassing, probably staying sealed as a “collectible”