why does nobody talk about lost money
why does nobody talk about lost money. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain. Buying…
Stopped for financial reasons and regained most of it. Not a moral story, just a budget and a documented outcome.
Was there a point where the information was available and you did not look?
nobody gets judged here, that is the entire premise
accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything. It is a budget.
buy small first is the lesson that keeps being learned expensively
Lost money to a shop that had nothing verifiable on file anywhere. Posting so that somebody searching that name finds this.
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
this board exists so the failures are on the record too