[Question] fake COA — what am I missing here
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: fake COA — what am I missing here.
The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty.
Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type.
Never name an individual. The sidebar rule exists because the cost of being wrong falls on a person and the benefit of being right falls on nobody in particular.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why this board insists on dates and documents rather than names.
A report that says "X is a scam" is unfalsifiable and unactionable. A report that says "ordered on this date, paid this way, asked for a batch document on this date, received this reply, nothing since" can be checked, corroborated, or corrected by somebody with a different experience.
The second kind has repeatedly turned out to be a shipping problem, a payment window, or a misread email. The first kind never turns into anything except an argument, and when it is wrong the cost falls on somebody real.
Agreed on the no-names rule. It protects the board and it protects people who turn out to be wrong.
a domain registered last month with a decade of testimonials is the whole tell
What dates are we talking about — order, payment, last contact?
Is this a shop, a group buy, or an individual reseller? They fail in different ways.
What did the storefront say the lead time was?