Having to have 100 posts before trading?

[Jimit10]

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. *

[korky]

See, there's one more post...gett'n there!

[TeeTime]

See, there's one more post...gett'n there!

perfect.

[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.

[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.

[MuZI]

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. *

Contact a mod... or Brobert... he replied in this thread. He can upgrade you to VIP.