[Failure] vendor vanished mid-order with 11 people waiting
vendor vanished mid-order with 11 people waiting. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else. Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes. Escalating faster…
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Push back: you did not lose that money by being stupid. You lost it to a shop with nothing verifiable on file, which is a different thing.
Push back: you did not lose that money by being stupid.
Disagreeing with the self-blame in this line. Some of it is luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
I would not generalise from one bad month to a rule. The rest of your process sounds fine.
Gently disagree with the self-blame. What you describe is a procedural gap, and the procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.