There are so many of us that do not what you protecting us and we want to use bank transfers.  Ping has been an option for sometime for those who fear being ripped off. Your protection sucked when our card was ripped off on Ping.  I had to battle with Trade Me to get the refund in time to pay the Visa account.  So no, Ping is not the great thing your keep saying.

Michelle, as I said at the beginning - my visa account on Ping was hacked and that is why I do not trust Ping.  Selling and buying with my bank account has only once been a problem in twenty years. I am surprised by how many of my buyers tell me they do not like or want to use Ping.  I assume that we are being forced to use Ping because so many of us have refused the option up till now and Trade Me needs it to be a 'success'.  

Let us not forget that you will be charged when you win an item and then you are charged again when you use Ping to pay for you item - a double charge is just wrong.

Have you looked through the exclusions for getting a Ping refund?  They are not user friendly either.

It was implied in the statement that I found on one of the Trade Me links, going back I cannot find where it was, but it definitely was there.  I wondered how they would know too but I suppose if the seller is in Auckland and the buyer is in Invercargill that might be a give away, as will someone then booking an item with the TM couriers.

And obliging the buyers will get you into trouble with Trade Me.

Just realized that your Ping failure is the same as the bank transfers that Ping is supposed to fix.  A Yeah Right moment.

No shortsbandy, that amount of time is really is not good enough.

AJ, we tend to think of Trade Me as ours but let us remember it is privately owned by a UK company.

It will be interesting to see what answers you receive. Ping has been around for a while, most people I have chatted with don't want to use it.  So this master plan of forcing Ping on us is not something the majority of TM users want, or this would not be necessary.