posible scam here on OF

Steve1haggart · May 30, 2020

i'm sure people like this will continue to pray on other great to see he is gone .
This is an amazing web site full of knowledge and experience and genuine guy's how take they're time to help other .

OF keep-up the good work and alway work on the level .

JwRosenthal · May 30, 2020

I can understand how difficult it is to keep this community open and inviting to all who come here for knowledge, kinship, or even validation. Particularly when there are Trojan horse at the gates regularly and it is up to all of us to spot them. To use a phase from the post 9/11 campaign- if you see something, say something. Our collective eyes and sharing of these things is what will keep this place what it is.

CajunTiger · May 30, 2020

Steve1haggart
I find this very disturbing as i alway found this site a site for gentlemen with integrity and honour.

Its pretty typical on any forum...the key is just ignore all messages re WTB ads that aren't from established members. 99% of the new member responses responses are illegitimate from my experience.

FreelanceWriter · May 30, 2020

vitriol
This kind of scam happens on WUS all of the time.
Each time when I have posted there WTB - at the next day, a new member zero-post-wonder sends a PM and claims he apparently has the item I've been looking for...Yeah, let mods know the deatails of this new OF member.

I'm not disagreeing with any of that, but there are exceptions; I know, because I was one of them:

I found this forum in 2013 after doing a Google search for "WTB Omega Flightmaster" because I was looking to sell mine at the time. There was a WTB post here, so I signed up for no other reason than to contact that member, which I did, immediately. He accepted my asking price and, because he was in the UK, he arranged for a friend of his in NY to meet me to conduct the transaction. I drove out to her house in Westchester, gave her the watch and all of the related extras (spare generic mesh bracelet, original dial, and extra chrono/subdial hands in an alternate color), and she paid me in cash. She knew nothing about watches and her only verification was to compare it to the photos on her screen that I'd sent him, and she said to her 8 or 9 year-old son "Does that look like the same watch to you?" And that was that. I believe that was before I'd even posted here for the first time.

STANDY · May 30, 2020

For this reason a fishing forum I’m on makes it you need 10 posts before you could PM members.

(Along with WTB posts, You would post a few shots of a few fish caught and then get a heap of PMs from no post members asking where you caught them.🤦)

Dan S · May 30, 2020

STANDY
For this reason a fishing forum I’m on makes it you need 10 posts before you could PM members.

(Along with WTB posts, You would post a few shots of a few fish caught and then get a heap of PMs from no post members asking where you caught them.🤦)

Sort of the equivalent of newbies asking where to buy vintage watches at good prices. 😉

STANDY · May 30, 2020

Dan S
Sort of the equivalent of newbies asking where to buy vintage watches at good prices. 😉

There is a difference between Green and Greedy.

I like to give a newbie the benefit of learning. I don’t think asking the above question is that bad, I know in other hobbies it’s probably a valid question to ask members where Is a good place to buy stuff
. ( vintage watches being different to say asking on a fishing forum which tackle shop is better )

thelinendial · May 30, 2020

Happened to me on another forum because I posted want to buy. Very similar behaviour. I reported to an admin.

JwRosenthal · May 30, 2020

STANDY
There is a difference between Green and Greedy.

I like to give a newbie the benefit of learning. I don’t think asking the above question is that bad, I know in other hobbies it’s probably a valid question to ask members where Is a good place to buy stuff
. ( vintage watches being different to say asking on a fishing forum which tackle shop is better )

I agree. If someone asked me at work “hey, where could I buy a beautiful watch like you have?”, my first response wouldn’t be “do your own damn homework pal!”. It’s a fair question for someone who knows nothing about vintage pieces- where do you get them? Are there places that specialize? Can’t I just go on eBay and see one I like and be assured it will come to me working perfectly- they said it was working. I think people come here because we are the ones that are supposed to know.

cicindela · May 30, 2020

This could have been investigated, and handled promptly if reported to Mods. That is the procedure.
That is what we are here for. It may be too late now.

posible scam here on OF

Steve1haggart

JwRosenthal

CajunTiger

FreelanceWriter

STANDY

Dan S

STANDY

thelinendial

JwRosenthal

cicindela

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