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Most people at somersoft would not know me as I am relatively new here and have mainly been visiting the chat room.
Some members there are familiar with me through my active participation in stockcentral.
When I first went into the chat room here I noticed a marked difference between members rediness to answer specific questions compared to stock central . In the chat room there if you ask about a particular stock you will usually ( assuming anyone's there ) get several opinions about the wisdom of buying shares in xyz varying from the " do you know that three directors have been charged with insider trading? " to indepth T/A opinions .
Obviously the fact that no one knew me would have accounted for some reluctance but I soon realised that there were at least two other factors involved. Firstly there is a concern that someone might try and gazzump a deal and secondly , there is a lot more money at stake in buying a property c/w shares so people have to be responsible for their own decisions. The experienced members often respond with questions along the lines of " well see , how do you feel about the property? " . Initially annoying ( Oh B... I'm back in behavioural studies ) but after a few minutes reflection the wisdom of such an approach is obvious.
Last night the wisdom of the first point, of not discussing individual properties became obvious. I started talking about a house i had seen , which knowing the area , I felt was a good buy. Several members asked relevant questions but one member wanted to know where it was . Although I don't intend to buy it at this stage , if by some chance it was still available in about three months time I would be interested in it. I said no but this member wouldn't take no for an answer. Eventually the conversation moved on and later became more personal , I became rather annoyed ( I again apologise to the other people present for the way the conversation went , but I felt rather strongly about what was said ) and eventually left.
So what did this other member achieve. Unless his aim was to go around annoying me he didn't achieve much . Maybe this was his idea of fun.
What he did achieve was a promise to myself not to discuss specific properties unless I know the members in the chat room well. This I think is unfortunate.
Happy chatting see change
Most people at somersoft would not know me as I am relatively new here and have mainly been visiting the chat room.
Some members there are familiar with me through my active participation in stockcentral.
When I first went into the chat room here I noticed a marked difference between members rediness to answer specific questions compared to stock central . In the chat room there if you ask about a particular stock you will usually ( assuming anyone's there ) get several opinions about the wisdom of buying shares in xyz varying from the " do you know that three directors have been charged with insider trading? " to indepth T/A opinions .
Obviously the fact that no one knew me would have accounted for some reluctance but I soon realised that there were at least two other factors involved. Firstly there is a concern that someone might try and gazzump a deal and secondly , there is a lot more money at stake in buying a property c/w shares so people have to be responsible for their own decisions. The experienced members often respond with questions along the lines of " well see , how do you feel about the property? " . Initially annoying ( Oh B... I'm back in behavioural studies ) but after a few minutes reflection the wisdom of such an approach is obvious.
Last night the wisdom of the first point, of not discussing individual properties became obvious. I started talking about a house i had seen , which knowing the area , I felt was a good buy. Several members asked relevant questions but one member wanted to know where it was . Although I don't intend to buy it at this stage , if by some chance it was still available in about three months time I would be interested in it. I said no but this member wouldn't take no for an answer. Eventually the conversation moved on and later became more personal , I became rather annoyed ( I again apologise to the other people present for the way the conversation went , but I felt rather strongly about what was said ) and eventually left.
So what did this other member achieve. Unless his aim was to go around annoying me he didn't achieve much . Maybe this was his idea of fun.
What he did achieve was a promise to myself not to discuss specific properties unless I know the members in the chat room well. This I think is unfortunate.
Happy chatting see change
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