[PSA] what went wrong is not what most of this community thinks it is
what went wrong is not what most of this community thinks it is. That is the post. The justification is underneath. Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.…
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
Yes. Buy small first. It is the cheapest lesson on the site and it keeps being learned the expensive way.
Are you being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting this?
Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything. It is a budget.
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
Same. The thing that went wrong for me was procedural and boring and it cost me a lot.
Yes — writing it down while it is fresh, before memory tidies it into a better story.
Agreed. The failures are the part that is missing from every other board, which is why this one matters.
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
Agreed — somebody is at exactly the point you were at, reading this, and it will land differently for them than any success story.
Agreed — somebody is at exactly the point you were at, reading this, and it will land differently for them than any success story.
Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
the thing that went wrong is usually procedural, not dramatic
the thing that went wrong is usually procedural, not dramatic
Disagreeing with the self-blame in this line. Some of it is luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
this board exists so the failures are on the record too