Why do my comments end up in Pending?

Not just you Andrea, it happens to us all. Sometimes on a Friday they sit there till Monday before being approved. The usual things that seem to trigger are words like scammer, email address, links to external websites, but often just a simple post will get grabbed in pending for no apparent reason.

See this thread...

What is a "pending" post – Help - Trade Me

Here's an example from earlier in the month.

Kia Ora Andrea,

Definitely Not just you - we've tested this quite extensively, as you will see in the Post Gary has Linked you to - TradeMe do halt some certain keywords for checking before going live and sometimes it can be a matter of character/line spacing between input links - it's really frustrating when you are trying to Help Members and in the shortest timeframe possible - Cheers. 

Thanks Gary & S. Nice to know it’s nothing personal!

It even happens on edits too. I did one the other day where the initial post was fine, but when I then thought to edit and add more detail with a link to the help page, it then went in to pending and was not able to be seen.