[Resolved] accused the wrong vendor. it was my storage. correcting it.

Adding to the record: accused the wrong vendor. it was my storage. correcting it. It matches what the source page already shows, for whatever that is worth.

The pattern in the money-loss posts, since there is one.

Almost none of them involve a documented supplier with an independent testing record. They involve an unfamiliar shop, a price that seemed good, a decision made in a hurry, and no small first order.

The procedural fix is the one this site keeps repeating: buy small from anybody new, ask for a batch-specific document before paying, test what arrives, and only then commit. It is boring, it costs a small order, and it would have prevented most of what is written on this board. Where a name has nothing verifiable on file, that is a statement about the evidence available rather than about anyone’s conduct — and keeping that distinction is why these reports stay useful.

Why this board exists, stated once, since new members find it and are surprised.

Every other community surface on this site is a record of things that worked, because people post when they have something to show. That produces an archive with a systematic bias, and somebody at week three reads it and concludes that their difficult month is unusual.

This board is the counterweight. The rule is that nobody gets judged, that corrections stay up, and that the failures are written down with the same care as the successes. It is the least-visited part of the site and the part I would keep if I could only keep one.

Ignored something for four days that I should have asked about on day one. That is the only genuine regret in my whole run.

Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.