1) The minute you post a link your letting everyone know about the watch your looking at.
( with twice as many lurkers than members sometimes your doubling your competition in bidding- not a smart thing if your uncovering a jem )

2) The thread is useless once the sale has ended and the link shows sale ended and no photos. ( waste of experienced members knowledge that can't be looked at by future noobs )

3) Many don't click on links ( you know the email rules, never click a link unless it's from a trusted source )

4) Many long time members are happy to help if a thread has a few photos, but links take us away from hunting our next watch

5) Set a avatar, it's how we get to know people here.

6) And finally one or two watches at a time, too many 5-10 watches being asked about at once lately



We are happy to help out a bit but make it easier for us.

 

Part of the problem maybe that some posters aren't familiar with, on a windows machine, the right click on the image and the "Copy Image Location" command and using the picture icon on the thread page to post their image.

 

That would really screw someone from joining Instagram

 

Don't believe in instagram....it's the devil

 

Told ya

 

Why isn't the OP stickied?

 

Called in the big guns

@dsio
@Trev

 

Agree this needs stickying.

As above, it makes threads useless for learning in the future once the links have expired, and it make it very onerous to help people/offer opinions when a newb posts a thread that contains no pictures and 5 links to various listings.

 

I think this should be the rule for the recommended watches on eBay, also. Even though a watch has sold, there's still a lot to learn from the photos.

 

I rather LOL'ed at that

 

This topic could be merged with this sticky: https://omegaforums.net/threads/vintage-omega-posting-guide.383/
or this one: https://omegaforums.net/threads/for-the-new-members-read.23288/

Perhaps the problem is that these self-help stickies are somewhat lost in the "Vintage Omega Watches Help, Discussion and Advice" forum and may not be not immediately obvious to a new member.

 

Hi I'm willy I've been a member for several months now but unfortunately havent been up to doing my little collection of mainly cheaper end omega watches I happen to come across I would like to thank everyone for the notes I've just read through and hope I can join in some interesting conversation soFirstly happy new year just wondering if anybody could help me identify this gents omega I bought it on eb some time back it's got no identification as it's only the case and bracelet I was hoping that maybe I could eventually put it to use again her are a couple of pics thank you sorry the number on the clasp is 1365/356

 

Probably better to create a new thread with your question.