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Unpopular opinion: that perfect DM from a 'vintage watch seller' in Ohio was a bot, and half this sub keeps falling for it
I spend way too much time in the message requests folder, so last Tuesday I sat down with my buddy Dave at a diner in Toledo and showed him a DM that had a weirdly clean pitch about a 1972 Seiko. Dave reads code for a living and said the tell was that the person never once typed a typo in 11 messages, not even when the chat jumped topics three times. He also pointed out the account posted the exact same compliment to 40 people in 2 days, which is a thing no human seller does. Honestly it stopped me cold because I had already sent my phone number in that chat before Dave looked at it. Has anyone else had a DM that was spotless like that and still turned out to be a person?
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rodriguez.mia10d ago
Did Dave ever think maybe the guy just uses voice to text and checks his messages before sending? Plenty of sellers copy paste the same intro line to everyone because they get the same questions all day, and that 40 compliments in 2 days thing could just be a guy blasting the same message out to drum up business. Some people are just careful typers, especially older watch guys who grew up on forums where sloppy posts got you mocked. A clean chat with no typos is weird but it's not proof of a bot, and phone numbers get sent to real strangers all the time.
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