group buy organiser vanished with 3.4k. here is the timeline
group buy organiser vanished with 3.4k. here is the timeline. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual lead time across 4 orders. The quoted number held. The order I actually check things in, for anyone building a process rather than asking…
Same view. A record you can read beats a rating you cannot inspect, every time.
Correction: that supplier is in the documented twenty with a source page, not in the wider-market table. Different evidence bases entirely.
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buy small first, test it, then decide
Agreed on buying small first. The cost of a test is small next to the cost of committing to a supplier you have not checked.
the interesting column is spread, not maximum
Regional stock made more difference to my planning than anything else — ordering from a warehouse in France took the customs question off the table entirely.