Re: Selling watches

Sammy wrote: 
Hello all,

Some time ago I posted here to request a FAQ or an alt. horology etiquette guide. I got some very welcoming and friendly replies: thanks :-).
Anyway, I have a number of watches that I wish to sell but I'm not sure whether it'd be appropriate to advertise here. I don't want to 'waste bandwidth' or upset anyone so I thought I'd ask.
Another (unrelated to horology) ng that I subscribe to has a discrete rule that occasional ads are okay for regular on topic contributors but a bombardment of sales attempts (and nothing else) is unacceptable. Is that about right here?
Is a link at the end of an on topic post going to bother anyone?

I believe in being liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you broadcast. Based on that, an ad in a proper .sig is OK, as long as the post isn't obviously just to expose the .sig.

....and a proper .sig starts with "-- " not including the quotes, but including the space at the end, then starting on the line below not more than 4 lines of not more than 80 characters each.

How about explicit, actual (non binary) ads?

You'd better have a whole lot of other useful content, or I'll set up a filter to avoid you. The few people I've seen advertising on Usenet without irritating people are obviously on Usenet mostly because they want to be, and their posts are 95% informative and helpful, and usually 2% or less unprompted advertising. (Some of the 95% can also have some ad content, but the post should interest group members who have no intention of buying) Sheldon Brown is an example of this on the rec.bicycling groups.

Takes a whole lot of good posts to make up for one ad, though.
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