A simple guide to buying a watch on this forum

Frenchdude87

I truly understand those statements @Gav1967 and @ErichPryde 😀

To tell you the truth i'm a collector of a certain brand : Vintage Certinas.
I'm pretty active on the Certina threads and I might say i might even be trusted by some fellow older members as I only post and share picture ans answer questions about certains topics, and try to be as pertinent and helpfull as i can be. I regularly sell some vintage Certinas, and I woulds so much prefer to sell it to fellow Certina fans of this forum than on ebay or Cr24

I even already sold a Certina bracelet through messaging to a member who has been posting on the same Thread (an who has thousands of posts)

Yeah it's true i might not trust a 200 post person either...but you know what...i'll wait for the 201st post to sell ^^

Frenchdude87

Well for what i'm concerned, i wish i could reach the 200 post limit so i can sell on OF
i've been on the forum for a while but i guess i'm not very talkative

EuroDriver

Just to chime in, the latest approach being thrown at me is "I am buying this as a gift for a friend, but I am over my budget."

Also, a few months ago I was selling a PO LMLE. I got a message saying "I was wondering if you can find it in your heart to gift this to me. I have always wanted a watch like this, but I can't afford it."

I'm not joking, that's what they sent me.

Waltesefalcon

It took me several years to hit 200 posts. I was probably a member here for nearly ten years before I sold my first watch on here. But, then again, selling watches has never been my goal.

pdxleaf

Preliminary (0): have the money before you contact the seller. If that means needing to sell watches, sell your watches.

Don't spend days arranging a video conference to view every angle and examine every scratch in microscopic detail before saying you need to sell some watches first.