[Failure] lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not.
lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted. Pulling the figures out of the title: £340. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed. Lost money to a shop that had nothing verifiable on file anywhere.…
That reads as a warning about a documented supplier and the events you describe are about a shop nobody has any record of.
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Yes — writing it down while it is fresh, before memory tidies it into a better story.
Did you write anything down at the time?
Are you being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting this?
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.
Fridge died in a heatwave and I lost three months of material. There was no clever lesson; I just had not thought about it.