So out of nowhere a v 1.5 Superocean Heritage 46 shows up on RWI sales forum and no one notices. A rare holy grail for some of us. It is delivered in beautiful condition on a nice shark skin strap (thanks AskMeAgain).
Now the hunt for a rubber ocean racer rally band which completes the package. I search the forums high and low, inside and out. Even all of you angry members who scald new members for not searching would be proud. Any how....no luck.
I turn to rep geek, a new find for me. No posts, no identity and I go through the same search process so as not to embarrass myself knowing there are the "search it noob" patrols on every forum.
Then I hit an old M2M sale from March 2013. A franken SOH sold without the OR strap. I sheepishly PM'd this member to see if he had the strap available and then it happens......
He gave it to me! Free! He writes "consider it a gift". I know this sounds like a Christmas time puff piece on the local news, but seriously I feel that all of us rep collectors have the same sickness and at least we can all feel bad for each other. I just think this is the coolest thing but I can't tell any one because this culture sounds insane to disinterested people and my wife thinks it's ridiculous . Anyhow, buried in here is some kind of happy life lesson in a world full of selfish people.
Oceanheritage1 at repgeek, you are a good man and I will pay it forward
Now the hunt for a rubber ocean racer rally band which completes the package. I search the forums high and low, inside and out. Even all of you angry members who scald new members for not searching would be proud. Any how....no luck.
I turn to rep geek, a new find for me. No posts, no identity and I go through the same search process so as not to embarrass myself knowing there are the "search it noob" patrols on every forum.
Then I hit an old M2M sale from March 2013. A franken SOH sold without the OR strap. I sheepishly PM'd this member to see if he had the strap available and then it happens......
He gave it to me! Free! He writes "consider it a gift". I know this sounds like a Christmas time puff piece on the local news, but seriously I feel that all of us rep collectors have the same sickness and at least we can all feel bad for each other. I just think this is the coolest thing but I can't tell any one because this culture sounds insane to disinterested people and my wife thinks it's ridiculous . Anyhow, buried in here is some kind of happy life lesson in a world full of selfish people.
Oceanheritage1 at repgeek, you are a good man and I will pay it forward
