anyone else notice lost money kicking in around week 72
Reporting in. anyone else notice lost money kicking in around week 72. On being wrong in public, which is the best thing that happens here. Several of the most valuable posts on this board are corrections: somebody reported a problem, it turned out to be their own storage or their own arithmetic, and they came back…
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
Did you write anything down at the time?
Yes. Buy small first. It is the cheapest lesson on the site and it keeps being learned the expensive way.
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buy small first is the lesson that keeps being learned expensively
coming back to say you were wrong takes more than being right did
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.
going up too fast is the most repeated regret on this board
That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.
a mistake described in detail is worth more than a success described vaguely
money lost to a shop with nothing on file is the recurring story
log it while it is fresh, memory tidies things up
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.