[Discussion] group buy is doing more work than we give it credit for
group buy is doing more work than we give it credit for. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
Lost money once, years ago, to a shop that pushed hard for a decision the same day. Every time I see that pressure now I close the tab.
Was in a group buy that went quiet for six weeks. It resolved in the end, but the structure meant I had no visibility and no recourse the whole time.
Asked a new shop for a batch-specific certificate before ordering. The reply was a generic catalogue page. I did not order.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
A report is useful here when it carries dates, the exact domain, what was requested, what arrived and what did not. Everything else is atmosphere.
A report is useful here when it carries dates, the exact domain, what was requested, what arrived and what did not.
Disagreeing here: that is a delay, and this board has to keep delay and intent in separate columns.
Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check. A site claiming years of history on a months-old domain is the cheapest signal available.
Now I buy small from anyone new, test it, and only then commit. It has cost me a few small orders and saved me one large one.
Correction: that domain is one character different from the one you posted, which is rather the point of this thread.
Reported something here with dates and screenshots and was asked for the document trail. Fair challenge, and it made the report worth reading.
What did the storefront say the lead time was?