You missed your possible chance of validation... Topic post should look something like this: Hey guys, I'm just wondering how long it'll take me to get validated, I try to play an important part in helping out on this forum, and my bike is progressively breaking/needing updating, and I'd like to start buy/selling in the For Sale/Wanted section. Thanks in advance. That wouldn't get you validated straight away, but if you kept on posting like that you'll soon enough get validated. Spell checker: Go to CLICK, download that, and before you post, click the button in the pic (see below) to at least make your posts readable. Try to use correct punctuation as much as possible and post as if you were doing an English CASE exam, not like you do on MSN. That was the calm advice, this is the raw advice: TYPE NORMALLY, HOW f**kING HARD IS IT?