The self sufficient collector

I learned a lesson today about being a self sufficient collector.  For those unfamiliar with the term, it is using your knowledge and experience in a hobby to buy and sell so that you can buy to keep.  A good example is picking up a nice condition Hamilton 992b for $50 and flipping it for $200.  Take that $150 profit and follow the same process a few more times then buy a watch to keep.

I managed to follow this process to buy an Omega Aqua Terra 150M co-axial chronometer chronograph.  I had to find extra links for it but I could never have done it without the buy sell buy keep process.  I have done this to get a few of my better watches.  It is the best way to collect on a limited budget.

So as to the lesson, I was trying told to move my sales posts on watchuseek to the dealer sales forum instead of the private sellers forum.  Mind you I have been a member 6 years and post in other threads other than just selling.  In fact a nice reader joined the forum just because of my Joseph Johnson post here.  But they deem it necessary to make me post in a dealer sales forum because their opinion is that I am doing it as a business.

I follow the rules and a mod takes it to form an opinion about who I am.  The move is to allow people who only occasionally sell to be more visible.  This is a laugh as many buyers use WatchRecon to find the watches posted than paging through their sales forum.  It gives you the ability to see sales posts on multiple forums.  Great sight, check it out, just Google WatchRecon.

So I have been labeled a dealer.  I have been told my post quality is not there to make them think that I am there for anything other than selling and I use the forum to essentially mine for information. I'm sorry but any minor information the members have given was just an addition to what I already knew.  25+ years of collecting gives you a rather good knowledge base.

Most of my posts here have been a copy of what I posted on the forum.  You can judge for yourself if I am mining for info for just selling for profit.  So I will be trying the TimeZone forum for a bit.  Many ex forum members with dissolutions about how the forum was has moved there.  Ever since Earnie sold thing have gone less as well as they were and that was called "progress".  Whatever.....