That "stripped a gear on its third use" part is wild for a $90 tool. I saw a YouTube teardown where the guy showed the gears are basically plastic, so they're built to fail.

5 bump rule has been in the pinned rules thread since like 2019, it's post number 3 in the "READ BEFORE POSTING" sticky. I get that nobody reads those, but that's kind of on you for not checking. The rule is there so the for sale section doesn't turn into the same 10 threads getting bumped all day while new stuff gets buried. Honestly the once per 24 hours thing is pretty standard on most boards, even reddit's hardwareswap has a similar limit. If anything the mods here are lenient compared to other places that just ban you after the third strike.

Radio seemed like easy money to me for years. You buy spots, people hear them, people show up. Simple math. Then I watched a buddy burn $3k on a car dealership spot in Fresno and get like nine phone calls, and now I just don't buy it anymore. The spot logs thing is real too, because half these stations run your ad at 2am on a Tuesday and call it "drive time." Good on you for posting this. People need to hear it before they hand over a check.