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What are some of your pet peeves in the forum?

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JwRosenthal JwRosenthal
Great! We’re gonna get a Cyma sub before we ever get a Bulova one. 😒

Other than the Marketplace subfora, I don't browse by subforum. So to me it doesn't really matter, but I guess there's acknowledgement and prestige in having a dedicated subforum. If you include Accutron, Bulova deserves it's own forum. We could use the Sea King whale as the icon, or perhaps the tuning fork.
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This watch business is very secretive with auctions and watchmakers held close.
For a buyer on a tight budget, the only chance they may have to find a good watch they can afford is to dedicate a lot of time and energy tracking down obscure sales and auctions. Someone like that is not going to appreciate a dilettante waltzing in and publicizing an auction, for no good reason. "Woohoo, I found an auction, look at me!"

If you post an ongoing auction for a highly desirable watch, you'd better be doing it because you have questions about the watch and can't get the answers any other way (e.g. by PM). And then if the watch checks out, you better be prepared to bid seriously and win the auction. Because the chances are good you ruined it for someone else and raised the price for yourself. Just adding one more bidder to the mix can make a big difference.

And why would I publicize my watchmaker's name and contact info so any jackass on the internet can say I referred them to him?
 
Alpha
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Life is far to short to be peeved over a forum or for that matter anything 🙁
 
pdxleaf
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People who get pissy with others.
 
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Dan S Dan S
For a buyer on a tight budget, the only chance they may have to find a good watch they can afford is to dedicate a lot of time and energy tracking down obscure sales and auctions. Someone like that is not going to appreciate a dilettante waltzing in and publicizing an auction, for no good reason. "Woohoo, I found an auction, look at me!"

If you post an ongoing auction for a highly desirable watch, you'd better be doing it because you have questions about the watch and can't get the answers any other way (e.g. by PM). And then if the watch checks out, you better be prepared to bid seriously and win the auction. Because the chances are good you ruined it for someone else and raised the price for yourself. Just adding one more bidder to the mix can make a big difference.

And why would I publicize my watchmaker's name and contact info so any jackass on the internet can say I referred them to him?
Looks like we found yours. 😉 I completely understand why people keep auctions to themselves. Never said I disagreed with it. Luckily, I don’t follow highly desirable auctions. I mostly just find mediocre c-cases. The one I posted was just a nice looking c-case. They come up pretty frequently and I wanted to recommend to the clan here.

Watchmakers I don’t get as much and people here in general are pretty open with recommendations. I know watchmakers are swamped so unless they’ve asked not to be referred I don’t see any issue with sending them more business. That is after all what a referral is. You’re not vouching for anyone’s character or something. It’s also important to have a watchmaker you can trust which can be hard to find without some trusted recommendations. Otherwise, it’s just trial and error with your expensive possessions.
 
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People asking which watch they should buy.
Yea that’s a big part of why we’re here though, Omegas modern catalog is so massive and diverse that there are a lot of cool models many haven’t ever seen or heard of. Then when you add in vintage that expands exponentially
 
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dsio dsio
Make a premier league thread if you like

Oh no, an oil nations killing football thread is what we really need.
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dsio
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Oh no, an oil nations killing football thread is what we really need.
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Can’t really blame them, they just have money and when they saw how FIFA was just a casino they sat in an empty seat
 
queriver
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This, because nobody can solve it.
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When sellers add "reduced" or "final reduction" to a sales thread title but then continue to bump the thread endlessly for weeks with that text in the title from their one time price drop off $100 two days after they listed.
 
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This, because nobody can solve it.
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Every time someone posts that I lose an hour on Google image search looking for the cursed thing because a chicken in the shape of an H shouldn’t be that hard to find
 
M'Bob
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Life is far to short to be peeved over a forum or for that matter anything 🙁

Legitimate peeves, rather than those emanating from first-world, privileged, myopic perceptions, can be the springboard of constructive change.
 
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No Dennis anymore…. 😁
 
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gbesq gbesq
I think my watch purchases should come with a year of free frozen yogurt. I mean who doesn’t like froyo? 👍 Seriously, I wish that we didn’t have to pay for ad free OF, but I understand why and I wish that every time I post a WTB thread that I didn’t have to deal with at least one scammer who just happens to have a friend named Joey who has exactly what I’m looking for. 🫨

ew -- didn't I show pics from The Right Way? Manahawkin Ice Cream, ride or die for life!

the froyo place across the street doesn't get much activity but for the cheaters that leave the adjacent fitness center
 
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STANDY STANDY
No Dennis anymore…. 😁
yeah right sure, as if we need more yes men who don't buck the norm. Right. Give me fred and dennis back any day over the droves of fly-by-night "granddad's fake watch request" junk.
 
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"I just spent $xxxx -- for that price I expect perfection!"
 
Eve
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When people ask a question, and a member gives his one-liner "uneducated guess".
Even though few posts later a detailed answer is given, there are some other members that would still give a "like" to the lazy one-liner buddy, but wont ever give a like the proper answer.
 
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