Having to have 100 posts before trading?

[houndoggie]

Wow, we got 1 person with post of some merit out of that whole 2 pages. Thank you Shirazi. I agree, that would be a much more intelligent way of working the system - a time limit from the date of a members join date until allowing them to trade.*

I did click on the VIP link and it told me 'there are no upgrades available to you' there's your answer to all the idiots who called me 'too tight to pay to be VIP' etc. Nice bit of victimising, give yourself a pat on the back. *

I agree there should be steps in place to stop spammers and scammers. But the forum have these already by way of the fact it is a private forum. Plus a second backup measure of validating*every member.*

There are far easier ways to sell goods, with many, many multiples of the number of potential customers than this forum. To suggest i have joined the forum*to 'dump a load of stuff and never be seen again' is quite moronic.*

If any of you had actually opened your eyes instead of just seeing this thread as a self-beneficial opportunity to bully the new guy with shallow, self satisfying, disparaging*comments. You would have seen I have been a member since July.*

But rather than contributing to the community through public forums which (although do contain a significant percentage of genuine, real people with independent and helpful views) are largely ruined by groups of elitist status-seeking cliquey such as yourselves.

During the past 3 months I have been networking and discussing matters through private messages with friendly, genuine, down-to-earth people. I could have probably got 100 posts by now if I felt the need for public recognition of my chinese watch knowledge or wanted to boast about how many fake watches I have. But because I am secure in myself enough not to need that sort of childish gratification*it doesnt mean I haven't contributed to the community.*

This is the comments and suggestions forum. I was making a comment and suggestion. Not inviting a small-minded mob to state the obvious. And gratify themselves with a bit of dirty bullying.*If this is how everything in this section is dealt with the forum owners should be thoroughly ashamed. *

You are a testy one.


Lighten up Francis.

[Jimit10]

Put a crowbar in your wallet and upgrade to VIP. *Otherwise....see you in 'about five years'.

Oh, and by the way..... a 'jib' is a staysail on a masted sailing ship. *I presume that, in your rant, you actually wanted to say that we are all a 'Gyp'.

....sT

Typical insecure, pompous post with no value to anyone other than yourself.*

And you have the nerve to preach about community.*

I see you have looked Jib up in an online dictionary and jumped to the typical kind of paranoid conclusion of the typical insecure bully - ' you wanted to say we are all a gyp '*

WTF?*

http://thesaurus.com/browse/Jib

A jib where I come from means a draw back or set back. So make sure you have the correct information before you next try and insult someone as you just made a total fool of yourself

[Guanaco]

There are far easier ways to sell goods, with many, many multiples of the number of potential customers than this forum. To suggest i have joined the forum*to 'dump a load of stuff and never be seen again' is quite moronic.*

Now where would we get that idea?

I hoped to join this site to buy and trade decent rep watches but have now discovered u need 100 posts in order to join in.

Oooh right.

[KrisOK]

I did click on the VIP link and it told me 'there are no upgrades available to you'

This has been the case for as long as I've been a member. You just need to PM a mod for the info.

There are far easier ways to sell goods, with many, many multiples of the number of potential customers than this forum. To suggest i have joined the forum*to 'dump a load of stuff and never be seen again' is quite moronic.*

Maybe not a great start on a forum to start calling all the other members morons, elitist, status-seeking, cliquey, childish and small minded all in the same post. Yes, you will get some snide remarks, but that's true on every forum (even some professional business forums) that I have been a member on since the birth of the internet.

[MrZoSo]

[SFA437]

OK guys be nice.

Remember at one time we were all new guys and saw the great, active sales section and realized we had to either pony up for VIP or contribute 100 quality posts in order to sell.

Jimit- please realize these rules are there to ensure that the prospective seller is interested in joining our community and contributing something more substantial than sales postings.

This forum is built around a love of watches, tinkering with watches, analyzing replicas, building frankens, kidding around with each other, breaking each others balls, discussing what new models we hope to see repped, getting together to drink beer, talking about watches, talking about cars, talking about guns, talking about our crazy exes...

The sales forums are just a tiny percentage of what we are about here.

[KrisOK]

Jimit10, You can look at ALL of my past posts and you will see that I have NEVER made a rude comment to another member. I pride myself on being well behaved online. That said, your posts paint you in almost the opposite light. In your last 2 posts, you have called members morons, elitist, status-seeking, cliquey, childish, small minded, paranoid, insecure, pompus and a fool. Pardon me, but what kind of response do you expect???

If you were to poll 100 members here I doubt that you would find more than a couple who would call the 100 post rule before selling here out of line or unfair. This rule is for everybody's protection. It's really not hard to get to 100 posts anyway, and you can even bypass that by becomming a VIP for a one time fee. Over at RWG you have to pay a MONTHLY fee to post to the sales forum.

[houndoggie]

100 posts or not,
VIP or not,

The OP is on my do not sell to list.

[Guanaco]

Make selling available only to people with 500 posts, that should weed out some people the forums don't need.

[elvis]

making friends fast i see.****** doesnt matter who you are, or what you have, or where youve been, when a new kid comes to the playground, you cant just come in and start and start bit- ching about how we are playing, and when you do, you should expect the kids to tell you to wait your turn or kick rocks. dont get your feelings hurt and start calling names. when you do people might think you are being immature and childish.

[dlc.nla]

Typical insecure, pompous post with no value to anyone other than yourself.*

And you have the nerve to preach about community.*

I see you have looked Jib up in an online dictionary and jumped to the typical kind of paranoid conclusion of the typical insecure bully - ' you wanted to say we are all a gyp '*

WTF?*

http://thesaurus.com/browse/Jib

A jib where I come from means a draw back or set back. So make sure you have the correct information before you next try and insult someone as you just made a total fool of yourself

LMAO! Oxymoron much? Talk about insecurities & attempted elitism...
@ least this thread gave me a laugh before bed.

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk

[Brobert]

This is the comments and suggestions forum. I was making a comment and suggestion. Not inviting a small-minded mob to state the obvious. And gratify themselves with a bit of dirty bullying.*If this is how everything in this section is dealt with the forum owners should be thoroughly ashamed. *

If you're complaint is a request that we eliminate the 100 post rule because you're too busy to post and have better things to do... it's not going to happen. I explained the 100 post rule to you as politely as possible and for that I should be ashamed? It's clear you have no interest in being a part of this community and you must have something to sell. I can't help but see the irony in this.

[If you see Kay]

100 posts isn't all that hard to do *IF* you are truly interested in watches and this community. Suggest you be patient. 100 posts will come sooner than you think.

[sneed12]

Wow, we got 1 person with post of some merit out of that whole 2 pages.

Wow, you found the one person who agreed with you in the whole first two pages (ignoring the posts of several of the admin staff). Congratulations.

Everyone's been fairly polite about saying it, but let me lay it out for you: the 100 posts rule is to help prevent the membership from getting burned.

You don't need 100 posts to buy a "nice rep watch," only to sell one. Why? Because, honestly, sending a couple of hundred dollars over the internet to someone you don't know is an act of faith and trust, and you don't build up much faith and trust with an attitude like yours. There have been instances of guys selling watches they don't own, or "selling" the same watch to three or four guys, collecting the payments and then leaving. You have to trust the members you're dealing with.

I buy and sell a lot of watches here. In the ~2 years I've been doing this, I've only been burned once (by PrDubuis, who is banned here but for some reason continues to sell a ton of overpriced crap on RWG). I check the feedback of the guy selling a watch I'm interested, and if he doesn't have any I check his posting history. If that's sketchy, I won't buy. By the same token, I try to take care of the guys I sell watches to. I have accepted returns on occasion. I make sure I describe stuff accurately.

What I'm saying is, the 100 post rule doesn't cost you a thing--without 100 posts you can still buy all the watches you want, and you can't sell any but without some solid history no one is going to buy from you anyway.

[danzeman22]

100 posts is not that many, and it protects the community from impatient scammers and the like. I rekon its a good rule.

[Simon Templar]

Come in the front door complaining and *****ing about everyone in sight.....then tells us how we are all doing everything all wrong.

Yes....no doubt about it...people are going to just flock to your sales posts.



....sT

[Simon Templar]

100 posts is not that many, and it protects the community from impatient scammers and the like.

Hmmm....now that sounds familiar.

Who does that remind me of???




....sT

[prestigewatchco]

I think the 100 post rule is silly
Many people only read so never get to 100
Simplest way is ONLY VIP members allowed to sell and finish with it
Would take all the work off Admin and Mods checking to see if the latest members 100 posts were resirection posts
Or Nice watch GLWS posts
Selling is a privilege that should only be available to members who contribute something to the forum and to save all the hard work of checking their thread quality just say VIP or no sale

[danzeman22]

Hmmm....now that sounds familiar.

Who does that remind me of???




....sT

Reminds you of me? lol.

[narikaa]

[Simon Templar]

Reminds you of me? lol.

Why no, actually. Do you feel impatient?




....sT

[danzeman22]

My Girlfriend tells me im impatient all the time. If you are inferring that I want to sell something.... Unfortunately I have nothing to sell

[blue_sphere]

2 years ALMOST THEREEEEE

Edit: Oh look Im still a new member too lol

[Tritium]

You know what also would be a good rule...
A minimum post count for buying a watch, I have sold a watch a couple of times, held it for a few days waiting for payment, and nothing.
This has hapened a couple of times to me now, and i guess it happens to a lot of us

So i vote for a minimum post count for buyers to...

[kruzer00]

I think the 100 post rule is silly
Many people only read so never get to 100
Simplest way is ONLY VIP members allowed to sell and finish with it
Would take all the work off Admin and Mods checking to see if the latest members 100 posts were resirection posts
Or Nice watch GLWS posts
Selling is a privilege that should only be available to members who contribute something to the forum and to save all the hard work of checking their thread quality just say VIP or no sale

+1. Selling a watch on the forums is a privilege not a right.