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**cyclonejohnny** · 02-24-2018, 09:01 AM

Hey There,

Once again another original question from a noob. How the hell do I operate this thing?

So I have joined and like most non annoying newbies avoided the temptation to jump on here and ask a lot of avoidable questions. Like hey "TD can you message me on the forum" or "what is the best Sub" so on and so fourth. I've just been straight up lurking reading as much as I can and trying to educate on what is crazy fascinating while daunting. Who new it would be looking into Timepieces on Hodinkee YouTube videos would lead me down the amazing road we call the replica path!

I am now however at the point of what do I do here, never being a forum member or the like, it seems there are some protocols in place.

My first hurdle is I would like to PM a TD however I can see that "Until my post count is 15" I cant contact anyone but staff.

Who is staff, I saw that you welcomed a member today, so assumed are you Staff?

Also what do I post, I dont want to just spam stupid ****.

Any help would be great.

Cheers in Advance,

Another muppet noob V1.0

God Damn it I just messaged this to a goddamn bot? Well there goes my credibility of being an informed individual.
@AnthonyG you may be able to assist with the above message to HAL?

**JMS1988** · 02-24-2018, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by cyclonejohnny

Hey There,

Once again another original question from a noob. How the hell do I operate this thing?

So I have joined and like most non annoying newbies avoided the temptation to jump on here and ask a lot of avoidable questions. Like hey "TD can you message me on the forum" or "what is the best Sub" so on and so fourth. I've just been straight up lurking reading as much as I can and trying to educate on what is crazy fascinating while daunting. Who new it would be looking into Timepieces on Hodinkee YouTube videos would lead me down the amazing road we call the replica path!

I am now however at the point of what do I do here, never being a forum member or the like, it seems there are some protocols in place.

My first hurdle is I would like to PM a TD however I can see that "Until my post count is 15" I cant contact anyone but staff.

Who is staff, I saw that you welcomed a member today, so assumed are you Staff?

Also what do I post, I dont want to just spam stupid ****.

Any help would be great.

Cheers in Advance,

Another muppet noob V1.0

God Damn it I just messaged this to a goddamn bot? Well there goes my credibility of being an informed individual.
@AnthonyG you may be able to assist with the above message to HAL?

Hi there, relax you haven't messaged this to a bot, at least i don't think i am one... lol

None of these questions are "noob-ish", more like newbie-ish but that's alright, everyone was a newbie one day.

To answer your first question - by staff we mean basically the guys who run this place, from the admins and founders (Brobert, AnthonyG, etc.) to moderators (mysterio, wimpie007) and section mods. Apart from running this forum, those guys also contact TDs (trusted dealers) if something goes south as well as often negotiate between members when something goes wrong in M2M transactions.

There is indeed a 15 post requirement in order to send PMs and often new members have trouble with it, perhaps administration one day will decide to lift this requirement.

What can you post? Well, pretty much everything mate, don't worry too much about it, most folks that we bust for spamming are lazy noobs who discover the 100 post requirement (in order to sell stuff) and are in a rush to get there, resurrecting five-year old threads on the way by pasting "Welcome from Tajikistan" ...

BTW if you want to contact TDs you may perhaps send them an e-mail rather than a PM, in fact i have never sent a PM to a TD, only e-mails. If you can't find an e-mail to a TD you can feel free to ask someone about it in the shoutbox or even open a thread about it, i've been in this game for years and even i have trouble finding TD's e-mail address sometimes. Current website address is usually much harder to find as websites get seized pretty often.

**cyclonejohnny** · 02-24-2018, 01:40 PM

Cheers Mate,

Bloody helpful lot around here! Appreciate the help and the directions.

Another one for you... I swear it will be my last on this thread! Being that this is here to cater to most tastes in timepieces, I cant help but notice there is obviously a large majority interested in Rolex and the like, and obviously a big market and quite a bit of choice. Do you happen to know of any one around I should follow who is interested in Zenith or Glashutte reps?

Or is it a case of just shut up and research the hell out of it and this forum will have it?

I noticed that a few weeks ago RWI seemed quite intuitive and easy to find fodder to add to my knowledge, but looks like its gone to ish and now I cant even sign up?

Once again mate appreciate the heads up on the TD info. Oh and one last naive question what the hell are GeekBux and what are they used for?

**JMS1988** · 02-24-2018, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by cyclonejohnny

Cheers Mate,

Bloody helpful lot around here! Appreciate the help and the directions.

Another one for you... I swear it will be my last on this thread! Being that this is here to cater to most tastes in timepieces, I cant help but notice there is obviously a large majority interested in Rolex and the like, and obviously a big market and quite a bit of choice. Do you happen to know of any one around I should follow who is interested in Zenith or Glashutte reps?

Or is it a case of just shut up and research the hell out of it and this forum will have it?

I noticed that a few weeks ago RWI seemed quite intuitive and easy to find fodder to add to my knowledge, but looks like its gone to ish and now I cant even sign up?

Once again mate appreciate the heads up on the TD info. Oh and one last naive question what the hell are GeekBux and what are they used for?

Zenith and Glashutte are pretty rare in rep world... well, compared to Rolex they're pretty rare in the gen world as well, which doesn't change the fact that they're amazing timepieces. Rolex used the Zenith El Primero movement in the Daytona up until 2000...

Zenith has its own section on this forum however some threads about Zenith can be found in other sections, in this case you could say that search function is your friend, they're not as popular as PAMs or Rolexes so you won't get overwhelmed by the amount of search entries

Anyways, that's the section: https://www.repgeek.com/zenith/

Glashutte is even less popular around here and doesn't have its own section but don't worry, i've seen some threads, just type Glashutte (actually it's written Glashütte but the proper, umlaut form is probably pretty rare on international watch forums...) in the search box and have a read.
Here, i've done it for you: https://www.repgeek.com/search.php?searchid=5495628

RWI had a titanic failure in the last months which resulted in some major changes, that's their new address Forums - Replica Watch Info

GeekBux was previously used in the Game Room but since its deactivation it doesn't really have a use. There are plans to bring Game Room back, though.

GeekBux

**cyclonejohnny** · 02-28-2018, 04:53 AM

Hoenestly the time and effort you have put into your response is amazing. Really appreciate all the help. Massive Kudos. Definately will get my A into G and onto the VIP status. The knowledge on here is unreal. Thanks for letting me be part of this forum. Untill the next time bru.