How to contact someone offering a service

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How to contact someone offering a service

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If you are interested in a service offered by another owner and want to contact them, this is done through the Private Message facility on the forum.

To use this, you have to be a registered user of the forum – this is quickly done and painless. It’s necessary in order to discourage spammers, scammers and other undesirables from abusing the forum.



How to register

1. Click on ‘Register’ at the top of the page:

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2. Click that you agree to the terms of the forum, and you get to the Registration page.

3. On the Registration page, fill in the fields. You have to fill in the username, email and password at the top. The profile information is optional – the point of it is to give other users a rough idea of who you are, because it is always nicer to know who you are talking to.

4. When you have filled in the fields you want to, click on ‘Submit’ at the bottom

5. You are now registered. If you want to change any of the information, including your password, you log in and click on ‘Profile’.



Once you are a registered user – log in

You can log in either by clicking on ‘Log in’ at the top of the forum pages, or fill in the form at the bottom with your username and password - it looks like this:

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You know when you are logged in because at the top the ‘Log in’ option has changed to ‘Log out [your user name]’.



Sending a Private Message

Now that you are logged in, you can send a Private Message to the owner you want to contact.

Go to their post/message, and at the bottom of the message, click on the ‘pm’ (Private Message) button.

This takes you to your Private Message area, which looks and works like email.
Just write your message and click ‘Submit’ to send it.



How to check your Private Messages

Check any private messages you have received by logging in. At the top of the page you will then see it either says ‘You have no new messages’ or 'You have (x) new messages’. If you click on this line it takes you to your Private Message area.

To reply to a message, open it and click on ‘postreply’. You then have a blank message screen in which you can write your reply. Click ‘Submit’ to send it.

Any problems or questions – email me at contact@laymyhat.com, send me a private message, or leave a post on the owner-to-owner forum.
Paolo
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