I withdrew an auction a couple of weeks back dima26. An item I was no expert in. It had bids. A buyer pointed out that it might not be genuine. I did some further research and concluded they were correct. It was a replica. If I had left it listed I would have likely ended up with a very disappointed buyer and negative feedback. No thanks.
Here is what the buyer sees if a listing gets withdrawn
Hello again dima26. Yes, the seller gets a warning when they remove something, and the buyer gets an email to explain what has happened and how to complain if they need to do so. Some people argue that the fee needs to be removed, rather than increased. Because it punishes those who are trying to do the right thing and remove a non compliant listing, rather than leave it on the website.
Hello dima26. What about genuine reasons for withdrawal? Lost, stolen, damaged, out of stock, error in the listing description or photos. So it wouldn't really be possible to end it completely. The withdrawal fee is meant to discourage it, and if the seller HAS withdrawn it without a valid reason, you can contact Trade Me and mention that. They do take note of sellers who do it repeatedly.
I think this is related to searching L Do you have a phone / App? You can try it yourself. When I search for something (on the App, not the Desktop) it comes up with a bunch of "listings near me." as a suggestion from my search. The suburb location will be required so it can do this. I guess it's not clever enough to get rid of items that don't offer pick-up. This is a fairly obvious nod to Facebook Marketplace, which does the same thing on their search.
Yeah I think this is a hangover from a few years ago when Trade Me had a special listing process for DVDs They weren't listed in the normal way. There was a database with all the DVDs on it. You would type the name of your DVD and the rest was prefilled. So it was perhaps too difficult to pull those listings through to be counted in the listing allowance Either that or simply because there were/are some really big DVD sellers back before international sellers were allowed. They argued HVL fees were unfair on DVDs when they are a relatively low cost item but they have thousands listed. I r...
I can confirm this is an error.Trade Me always does weird stuff if you post a place name in search. I have posted detailed instructions how to fix it marriott76 but it's in pending mode. Check back in an hour or 2 and hopefully it's cleared.
You're correct. Trade Me has always struggled on search when you put a place name in search. It will assume you want to buy a bottle IN Oamaru. Or even worse will kick you out to property assuming you want to buy a house there. When I follow your instructions I get the exact same error. No results are returned, and my search word is changed to undefined. There is a way around it. 1. Type Oamaru bottle in the main search bar 2. It will delete the Oamaru and give you results of bottle listed in Oamaru 3. Click the link that says "Search all of Trade Me for Oamaru bottle instead" 4. Click the...
Hello cche162 Did you already pay for the car?
All OK here archival. Last nights came through OK, and a sale at 2:34am this morning. You can do a quick read through the help file for missing email issues here Another possibility is when payments have been flagged you don't get a email in those cases. Not until later when Trade Me have cleared the payment/buyer.