[Failure] lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not.
lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted. Pulling the figures out of the title: £340. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed. Lost money to a shop that had nothing verifiable on file anywhere.…
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
This. Correcting a wrong accusation in public is the hardest and most valuable post anybody makes here.
Stopped for financial reasons and regained most of it. Not a moral story, just a budget and a documented outcome.
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.