Disappearing Sharepoint Foundation 2013 anonymous list submissions

I have a custom Sharepoint Foundation 2013 list configured to allow anonymous submissions from a public facing website, but which requires admin permissions to view the full list content. Think like a contact form or an online application - anonymous users
can submit a new item via the form, but get "permission denied" when attempting to access the list itself. I've customized the New Item .aspx in Sharepoint Designer, and I've also added a redirect page after submission for a "confirmation"
page.
This seems to work perfectly in all of my tests - but I have several dozen users who have reported correctly filling out the form, pressing "Submit," and being taken to the confirmation page, but the list item is nowhere to be found when I log in
and look at the list. It appears that somehow Sharepoint is losing the new list item, while still redirecting users to the post-submission confirmation page.
If it was a single user, I'd chalk it up to user error (not pressing Submit or something), but I have enough identical reports to verify that this is definitely happening and data is definitely being lost. I have similar reports from users of all 3 major browsers,
both Mac and PC. 
Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this behavior on demand - the form works fine for me no matter what I throw at it. There's nothing in the recycle bin, no validation errors (I've turned off all validation for the form), and I have tried every browser/OS combination
I can think of. In every single test I have done, the form submits flawlessly, and the new list item appears immediately - even for a blank form.
Any ideas? Where do I even start trying to troubleshoot this if it happens seemingly at random?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts...

Hello,
Without being able to reproduce the problem I can imagine this will be a difficult one to diagnose. I would start by getting some dates and times from users from when they did submit items that they are claiming did not appear in the list. I would then look
in the ULS logs around these times and see if you can see the item being submitted / created.
Regards.
Brian Jones

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