Ping… l can’t seem to…

Hi. Do you mean the seller has not included postage in the auction. If so, you cannot change the price you pay via ping. You will have to contact the seller to either provide you with bank details to pay postage separately or have the seller set up another auction just to pay the postage. It doesn't make it easy when sellers do this. 

Yes that’s exactly what’s happened. Thank you and l have contacted the seller about this

Why does TradeMe allow sellers to do this ? Doesn't make sense as they claim they have set up ping only to make it safer but alot of sellers don't even add the shipping details in the postage options or state it in the listing details instead to avoid ping fees !!! 

"Why does TradeMe allow sellers to do this ? "

I'd counter this with, Why does TradeMe think it can charge a commission on a transaction with a third party postal provider?

I agree.They shouldn't be charging fees on postage but they do so with that being the case why do they allow sellers not to have postage rates on their auctions ?

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Trademe started doing this when it saw some dodgy sellers doing $1 buy now but $50 postage to avoid paying the selling/PING fees. I guess they saw this as an easier way than trying to correct those doing it.

Yes but without the postage details what's to stop bad sellers from adding $50 later with postage ?

I also have an In Trade account (now sitting unused), I sold one off larger items, there was no way that I could list realistic postage options for all the areas and then double that for all the rural areas. A lot of items I delivered personally, there was no way I could give standard pricing for that, without either drastically overcharging some people or undercharging others. To then have TradeMe think that they have a right to take a cut of that as well is laughable.