reading failure threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading failure threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Lost money to a shop that had nothing verifiable on file anywhere. Posting so that somebody searching that name finds this.
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
Is this the first time, or a pattern you can see now?
This. Correcting a wrong accusation in public is the hardest and most valuable post anybody makes here.
accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here