u/neha_mwangi

Is this a shop, a group buy, or an individual reseller? They fail in different ways.

Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check.

This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.

a fortnight of nothing is not evidence that you are fine

Removed the taper schedule written for another member.

This is the sentence that reframes the whole board. Appetite first, scale later.

Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed.

declared value and description are the shipper’s decision, ask what they use

customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated

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.

Small fix — the name you are describing is in the wider-market table with almost nothing on file, not in the documented twenty.

Right, and the last mile is where my variance has always come from, not the international leg.

The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything.