Well this is funny, why must a new member achieved 25 posts first before posting a for sale ad? This will discourage new members from joining. Forum need increasing traffic to be popular , too many regulations will just slow it down.
Since I need another 20 post so lets discuss this...
Let's say that you go to a gated community to visit a friend. You got stopped at the guardhouse and the security asked for your identification to register prior to going into the residence area. You kicked a big fuss and said that you were driving a posh car, wearing a luxurious watch, has a Datuk title, etc. At the end of the day, you could kick up as big a fuss as you want but there were rules and regulations put in place to protect both the visitors and residents.
In this aspect, a newbie came along and demanded to put his adverts on his pre-owned watches. MWF was a community for watch enthusiasts and we came here to chill out, make new friends and appreciate each others' timepieces. We all introduced ourselves, built our credibility over time, which then made it easier for others to trust us too. I am a serial watch flipper and I could share that MWF was a relatively safe platform for such flips and trades, because there was the in-built get-to-know-each-other and buy-the-seller-not-the-watch platforms.
If every Tom, Dick and Harry came in here just to flip their watches and then disappear, I am sure that we would see replicas or Franken watches here very soon, simply because they would have no accountability. People would come here, register a name, sell a watch, don't take responsibility, just re-register another name, and the pattern continues.
Heck, you didn't even introduce yourself properly in your first post. You just made it clear that you want to sell your watches. And you wanted to use the discussion on why we needed 25 posts prior to sale, so that you could then make comments towards achieving your 25 posts. We see that from time to time- you ain't the first. There would be some smart alecks whom come here, comments on every post with no-brainers like "Nice watch" on every single posts, and then proceed to sell their watches. Most members would politely ignore such members.
So if you were not keen to be part of the community here, could we gently point your way towards Mudah and other such touch-and-go sale platforms?
PS : I could have broken down the above long observations into 25 posts if I wanted to, but I believed that you would catch my drift. Hope you were a real enthusiast and would then enjoy your stay here.
