Change in price for Standard listing on General marketplace items

Yep, its there new charges. Your better to sell elsewhere than on here now. RIP trademe

Well that sucks. Free listing without photos then, and head over to Facebook Marketplace I guess. Has anyone else had success on other selling platforms that they recommend?

Kia Ora WBDolls,

The price increases were notified through the Post below and this is also notified in the site announcements page. - The starter price remains with no cost attached, you have selected the Standard listing which has the $0.99cent fee.

Marketplace optional extra price change for casual sellers – Help - Trade Me

Thanks for the link. I would have expected this to be an email to everyone, not buried on a page most people don't even look at unless they have a problem.

Changes like this are typically found through the site Announcements page, link found bottom right of most site pages. The Post is a secondary notification. - This price increase change is for Casual Sellers only, In-Trade members are unaffected. - Cheers.

Yep FB marketplace is just easier, no fees and a huge audience 

they were charging $1.49 for gallery during testing and you couldnt do anything about it , they have now settled on 99c  and apparently they posted a uodate on prices a day before .

No email was sent just a sneaky change 

caro2027,

You were on A/B testing as many have already explained to you. I was was put on the same A/B testing though I had a second A/B testing that you didn't have so I had greater price increases in several areas. - Emails are not sent out for A/B testing or set price increases. Changes are found through site announcements.

Must be frustrating for Trade Me. They remove all success fees, then when they increase an OPTIONAL promo fee the world is ending. How do people expect a company to continue operating if they don't charge people to use their service? 

By the way. If I want to promote my Facebook marketplace listing their version costs $3.60 minimum, and unlike Trade Me, there is no protection for either buyers or sellers. 

You can choose not to pay for optionals , I am annoyed that it happened before being announced  ,

what is a community  superuser exactlly ? 

All listing fields under A/B testing were changed on the system as we processed our listings, notification before selecting options were visibly in place for those of us who were in the testing groups. - The set change which came in was notified on the 4th November with the permanent change taking place on 6 November 2026. 

We are members the same as everyone else, the badge tag just appeared with our ID's without our knowledge, representing our knowledge of the different systems, experience with and help provided to other members over time. - It would be great if this was acknowledged in a pin so we don't continue absorbing the blame for a system we have no part in creating. - Thanks for asking and you're welcome.

They have a business to run, so fair enough. We lost the success fees which was a god-send. I'm happy to pay the extra 44 cents.

Kia Ora WBDolls,

Just picking up on your comment <quote> Free listing without photos then <unquote> 

All listings have the capacity to upload 20 photo's max. inclusive of the free listings. - If you're not able to upload photo's under the free Starter option can you let us know what happens for you and whether you get an error message come up - screenshots of this are also helpful so we can see what you see. It's also helpful to know if you're using the Desktop site or one of the Apps and if you've tried uploading photo's whilst accessing the site through both ways. - Cheers.