Please vote if you'd like to see international sellers removed - NZ Trade Me members only.

Simon. What is your reasoning for wanting to remove them?

Trade Me is trying to be something that it is not, if members wanted to purchase from China they'd purchase from AliExpress, Wish or Temu. International sellers clutter the site with products that are misleading, that have unacceptable wait times and are primarily drop-shipped from another site / warehouse.

They clog the search. If I have to search for anything I have to click 'used' just to get rid of the thousands and thousands and thousands of overpriced items out. 

While there are some issues with some overseas sellers, that is really an issue for TM to monitor the issues and ensure they are not issues. I like having the overseas stuff, but the sellers need strict controlling. You have the option of searching within NZ to eliminate international traders. If they are appearing in that, then its an issue for TM to sort out. There are misleading listing both international and in NZ. International sellers are required to give their estimated ship time so you as a buyer have an idea of delivery. However anyone buying international knows the real ship time is out of the control of the seller though as long wait times on customs/ shipping/ flights etc so you need to factor in extra shipping time as a safety net. Drop shipping is permitted here as long as TM authorise the seller to do that

Don, you are missing the point, Trade Me needs to stop trying to be something that it is not, it's for Kiwi buyers and sellers.

If it's not for for New Zealanders, arguably Trade Me should remove the Kiwi Logo.

I don't have a problem with the true international sellers, who are classed as such. These can be simply filtered out if you don't want to see them.

I do  have a problem with the dropshippers that send everything from overseas, when they are based in New Zealand. These can't be filtered. Trade Me need to alter the filter so it applies to the item location, not the seller location. But we have been asking for that for years without any success. 

I agree it should be nz only not overseas sellers

A lot of them have appalling feedback.

My issue with them, is that they seem to cause more than their share of issues with buyers, now this effects us, because if buyers get to annoyed/frustrated/upset they leave the platform, T-Me is no longer a monopoly, the Buyers have other places to shop online. If Buyers transfer to other platforms, it makes my potential audience smaller.

If there feeback rating drops bellow 95% after 50 trades (a little bit of grace given for "learning") then they should be insta kicked, gone, bye-bye sunshine.

I agree generally Simon.

I have some sympathy with the feedback these guys cop though. It's sometimes undeserved if you have a trawl through them. Especially in the early days when people weren't used to Int. sellers. Then covid kicked in as well. There were a lot of shipping delays. I have seen many negatives for items not arriving and the buyer hadn't even waited for the sellers expected delivery time to pass before they left it.

Agree with Callum. Internationals get a lot of bad feedback, but if you read it, its often not justified. Lots of it is shipping related and buyer it seems has not read up the detail on the listing that it had long delivery times so seller got an unwarranted red due to buyer incompetance from not reading listing. As we all know once goods have left the seller, seller has zero control over delivery speed.

It would be a big call to get TM to ban Internationals below these feedback % mentioned as TM would need to read all the FBs and eliminate those not deamed fair. TM simply dont have those resources to do that.  

What gets me is Trademe really doesn't give a crap about NZ sellers anymore, if they did they would give NZ Professional sellers Free High Volume Listings fees as they do for any international sellers. 

So straight away its not a level playing field!

Some of the overseas sellers have 250,000+ items on trademe - Items like a tube of chapstick for $13.50 with free freight , when you can buy them at Countdown for $4 !!!

Absolutely totally agree they should be removed. That is why half the people go to Facebook now because they can’t be bothered of the pages and pages and pages of the same thing. Example an overseas seller has 200,000 listings for 30 feedbacks. For God sake Totally boring for Customer to look at.

It becomes overwhelming. There are more than enough international places.

That is why a lot of people have stopped buying from Trade Me I talked to a couple of customers and they said they don’t go in Trade Me because of all the pages of the same thing from International Sellers. They said it’s more interesting on Facebook .Sometimes bigger isnt always better