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·Make all sales, dealers section. Solves everything 😉
says the guy with the out-dealer’d priced Seiko currently FS... 😗 (or is it now sold...?...haven’t been following)
Have anyone else been forced to move their listings to the dealer section as an entusiast?
says the guy with the out-dealer’d priced Seiko currently FS... 😗 (or is it now sold...?...haven’t been following)
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YY77
·says the guy with the out-dealer’d priced Seiko currently FS... 😗 (or is it now sold...?...haven’t been following)
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JwRosenthal
·The public discussion is a great way to clarify the policy that would be difficult to define in a single statement. I was certainly happy to learn from it.
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JwRosenthal
·Jeez guys. Read the thread you're talking about. Think its fairly easy to determine the answer to that 😉
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFOf course it’s not up to me - but maybe a good solution (or my recommendation at least) would be that long term, no ‘for sale’ watches - private or not, be fed into the general “Latest” category. Then there will be almost no need for a distinction, or at least people will care less and this will barely even be a talking point.
People looking to buy a watch will go shopping in the relevant for sale sections and or use an aggregator, like WatchRecon.
When I comes here and click the “Latest”, I’m looking for interesting things to read and discussions on watch related topics. And simultaneous I regularly search WatchRecon for watches I’m interested in.
Interestingly part of the way we identify guys is many of the guys we ask to move in turn snitch out several of their buddies and in this case one previous guy who was moved not only had a list of names for us to look at for this batch of 10 but also gave us the matching eBay accounts, store websites, other sites they shift inventory on, listing counts, etc.
We still don’t take it on someone’s accusation and verify it all before PMing anyone to ensure it’s not just finger pointing but again in this batch we had a few guys that also snitched on their buddies who will be part of the next list as they don’t want them having an advantage.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI guess I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
I get it. I would likely give him more benefit of the doubt if he had complied with the mods before making this thread. However he still has a sale (at least one anyway) in the private section.
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eugeneandresson
·Jeez guys. Read the thread you're talking about. Think its fairly easy to determine the answer to that 😉
I think @YY77 forgot his <\sarcasm> tags. But that leads to the interesting question, @STANDY being the Mick Dundee of fisherman and all, what would happen if his line actually got a bite 😀 (I believe I know the answer to that)...
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Nobel Prize
·It was a batch of 10 people that I PMed last night, many others have been asked in the past and there are often people unhappy when they get that PM.
The watches for sale section is indexed fully by all of the relevant aggregators like WatchRecon and people browse the topic very frequently. It also does not carry the one post per day restriction that other topics carry.
It really isn’t anything personal and it isn’t a punishment it’s just a categorisation based on an assessment of your history on the site along with several other factors.
Now that I think about it I demand an explanation!!! 😎
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·There are many watches listed in the private forum that many of us wouldn't normally see in the wild, online or anywhere. If the member doing the listing is relegated to the dealers forum, a forum that many of us don't visit often, then those oft not seen watches won't be seen.
This isn't even about sales, but for people who like the history of watches and seeing the rare, unusual or scarce those watches getting lost in a sea of Rolex and Speedmasters won't help anyone looking for something different.
I've lost count the number of times I've been contacted about a watch I've listed and the member wasn't even looking for that particular watch but saw the listing and felt intrigued enough to PM me. Sometimes they buy, many times they don't, but we always end up having a great discussion about the watch.
I know Speedmasters are sacrosanct here and God forbid anyone bump into the pedestal they rest on, but it's nice to open up the sales forum and have a holy hell! moment when you see something different.
in theory this makes sense but being practical if you have such a gem or rarity of a watch you can always open a non sales thread to discuss it, you can always have it also for sale ( provided you meet the criteria as a seller) best of both worlds. You’re teaching us something, creating passionate conversation and making your sale desirable.
i personally don’t go to the sales section to learn about watches, just to buy them.
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·There was a thread in 2018 where members complained there were too many undercover or unofficial dealers in the private sale section — and were unhappy the mods were not doing enough about it.
Turns out the mods were swamped and also have a life to deal with — I have no particular stock in the forum but I’m a moderator on another so I can relate.
The discussions were different in substance and in tone — but the management’s reply about how to assign sellers to each section was pretty much the same as here, and the policy was exactly the same, ie, there are several factors, volume being just one of them. And it’s a balancing act left to the discretion of the forum management.
whichever way you look at it, it will never be perfect for everyone.
Turns out the mods were swamped and also have a life to deal with — I have no particular stock in the forum but I’m a moderator on another so I can relate.
The discussions were different in substance and in tone — but the management’s reply about how to assign sellers to each section was pretty much the same as here, and the policy was exactly the same, ie, there are several factors, volume being just one of them. And it’s a balancing act left to the discretion of the forum management.
whichever way you look at it, it will never be perfect for everyone.
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·I've lost count the number of times I've been contacted about a watch I've listed and the member wasn't even looking for that particular watch but saw the listing and felt intrigued enough to PM me. Sometimes they buy, many times they don't, but we always end up having a great discussion about the watch.
If you've lost count, perhaps you do belong in the dealer's section? 😁
speak for yourself: I sometimes have to avoid it, and WRUW, the same way I avoid brothels, casinos, and fast food 😉
Yeah, I avoid WRUW as well... 😗
Great thread this - I am off to the dealer's section to see who got placed there recently 🍿
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arturo7
·I agree. As much as this may ruffle some and the operational end of the forum is entirely at the mod’s discretion, I appreciate the enlightenment. Now, if I were to decide to do a mass clearing (which I keep toying with but it’s like selling a child), I know to do it in the dealer section. If it’s just one piece every now and then- private watch sales. Got it.
I need to root through all of the watch photos you posted and start calling dibs...
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pdxleaf
··So on and so on and scoobie doobie dooI need to root through all of the watch photos you posted and start calling dibs...
There should be an Enabler section just for @JwRosenthal ...