Is MP going to be discontinued?
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Callum Community Superuser
They won't be able to kill it off completely. Too many large sellers are invested in it.
I can envisage a couple of options:
1. They revamp it and start charging for it.
2. They revamp it and it remains free - unlikely IMO
3. They kill it and move people to TradeVine instead. Trade Me own this, but it will probably also need a revamp and an injection of staff. This seems a most likely solution
4. They get rid of the standard listing method and make a completely new listing process with MPish features. eBay went down this route.
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flossy63 Community Superuser
If they kill My Products, they will literally be killing Trade Me,
as that platform is the only thing keeping a lot off us here, as listing on the actual site is a dogs dinner,
which does not effect those of us whom currently are using My Products,
but the appear to be trying to push people towards my products?
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AJ Community Superuser
"making it less bad" - whats wrong with it? It does mostly everything I want right, reduces time, easy to use and most importantly largely not effected by the changes to the website.
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There's a lot wrong with it today!
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Michelle
Trade Me staff - Community team
Kia ora ryanic, sorry for the trouble, listings created on the new system are unable to be imported into My Products, instead you'll need to create these manually as new products within My Products. Once they're in My Products you won't need to do this again, and your My Products listings will go via our old system.
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Thanks for the clarification Michelle.
So back to my original question then, since everything in TM is being migrated to the new system. That means My Products would no longer work at that point, so is the roadmap to discontinue My Products? When will that happen? Might be good to let your users know.
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AJ Community Superuser
ryanic
Im not sure why she didnt comment about that here, but she did on the post "SOLD PAGE IS A NIGHTMARE" where she said "there are no plans for phasing out My Products, we'd let you know of plans that would affect people using it."
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Michelle
Trade Me staff - Community team
Kia ora ryanic, AJ is right, I should have also popped that comment here also. We recommend My Products as a workaround for features that are temporarily unavailable on the new system, as it's unaffected by the changes to the site, so no plans to phase it out and we'd let you know if we were.
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