FOR SALE POSTS

I'm sure many of you cruise the various watch fora and check out the for sale sections......WUS, watchtime, and timezone, and of course XMT are my usuals. I have a couple of pet peeves that URK me to no end:


1) From my personal collection...................DAH, you A**, if it was from someone else's I'd turn you in for fraud.

2) No pics................give me a look please if you want me to buy. I absolutely hate clicking on the post only to find verbage and NO watch pics.

3) I dislike the ratings of good, very good, excellent. In my mind % is a better description.........That is % on the TZ rating scale. I also dislike the % given and then no explanation of where the faults are.

How about you guys? Is there anything that bothers you about the for sale posts you come across?

I agree with you John. I need me some pics to consider it. One other thing that bothers me is people who refer to themselves in the third person in the sale banner. I mean are any of these guys so cool they think someone will buy the watch because it once belonged to these yahoos? Well maybe they would in one forum, but it seems pretty pompous to me.

I never rate my watches since percent is an opinion, I put up 10 to 20 photos and tell about any defects I see, history, usage, etc. I tell them to carefully check photos for condition.

Lack of photos is what I hate the most.....other than a stupid high price.

How about "watch is mint except for" if you have to make an exception it's not mint!

Also sale stock in ADs with scuff etc. If I am paying retail I would like to be the first person to have worn that watch.

Yeah, no pics KILLS it for me...

"I really hate to let this one go..."

"I will give you..." instead of "Would you consider/take..."

Noisy only sells watches from his personal collection.
He wears his watches in rotation, as the mood strikes him.
They're scratched. Watches get that way. He's too lazy to polish them.
He sells them at low, low prices. They go quick.

I sell watches that are not in my personal collection.


I HATE it when someone sells a watch and then edits the post to remove the price. WHY?

PoliMalaka wrote:

I sell watches that are not in my personal collection.


I HATE it when someone sells a watch and then edits the post to remove the price. WHY?

Yeah, are they ashamed of what they sold it for? LOL

PoliMalaka wrote:

I sell watches that are not in my personal collection.


I HATE it when someone sells a watch and then edits the post to remove the price. WHY?

Its actually WUS policy for the price to stay up after the sale. Its not really enforced though because it happens frequently. It would be nice to have more references as to what that model is selling for used. If I were Ernie for a day, people would leave the price up or be banned from selling. But then we would read endless threads on what asshats they are at WUS. Another thing, some homers will cover up or obscure the serial number in the post-I don't understand that one either.

No pictures bothers me as well. Another is lack of communication by the buyer. Even though I can see the watch has been delivered thru tracking, LMK if it arrived in one piece or that you are happy or unhappy.

Also irritates me when you make an offer or inquiry. I respond or counteroffer and you never respond. Geeezzz just say you are not interested!