As AJ said it would be impossible to make it "mandatory" I have no idea who my offers are sent to, nor how many decline or ignore my offers. That doesn't worry me in the slightest. I'm only interested in the sales (accept) I'll have to admit I don't always bother declining offers either. When you have dozens of items on your watchlist it's pretty tedious and unnecessary in my opinion.....
According to your profile honestwillie you were last logged in on the 13th. The day you made this post. You also have 3 items listed so you must have been on the site in the last 2 weeks. But I agree with S. Perhaps some more info would help resolve your issue. You can reply to this (or your other) post rather than make another one.
Hello philanini. Yes, practically everyone that has sold a toy lately. It is an automated email. You will get one similar around fire safety if you list clothing in the children's sleepwear category. It's basically just Trade Me covering their legal obligations. Being positive: They are caring about the wellbeing of their customers Being cynical: They are understandably passing the buck to the seller rather than themselves if there is some issue with the toy down the track. Your toy sounds perfectly safe. No need to stress, or reply to the email.
No, not currently if you are on the new listing system. Do they intend to add it again? Who knows. Perhaps. But probably pretty far down the list of things to do as it's not critical. There is an option to use Trade Me's free listing tool My Products to list your items. Many photo editing options are available on there. Including a huge range of different crop/rotation and other manipulation tools.
Hello struckmestar. If you mean rotate your exact photo rather then the order they appear in I believe that is something you can't do if you are stuck in the new listing format. For me, you can do it as usual. See attached. You do have to click on the photo to activate it, then perhaps scroll down so the functions are visible. If you find the edit function is currently missing, the secret is to get your photos correct in the first place on your device. Plenty of advice on that online but it varies widely depending on your device and camera.
No, from what I understand as far as NZPost is concerned it's the lesser of replacement value, declared value, or sale / cost / actual value. For your belcher the value of it isn't $5000. It's $1699, your asking price. So you are covered. But you may want to double check directly with NZPost to reassure yourself. If you do check and find out differently it would be handy to come back and update this post for confirmation.
No it doesn't. A common misunderstanding though. It is only prohibited through standard post or economy. It is not prohibited by courier, which is what everyone would use anyway. Including if you are using Book a Courier on here. As mentioned in my first answer, as long as the value is below $2000, sent via courier, and packaged adequately it is perfectly fine to send.
Jewellery is perfectly OK to send with NZPost. You are covered upto $2000 using their standard courier service. The only restriction is that it must be packaged properly. Not really a big deal. Just don't chuck it in the courier bag with no protection. For items valued at greater than $2000 you can risk it, see if you can piggy back on your local jewellery store courier account, or arrange additional insurance directly with nzpost.
I know Gary has given you a good answer, but for an idea outside the box why restrict yourself to only some buyers? I ran some tests a few years back and there was NO MATERIAL DIFFERENCE in the rates of failed trades whether a buyer was authenticated or not. I'd just leave it unticked, then monitor sales and fails. You might decide it's better to leave it unticked. Even if it was a heavy factor in fails, the maths just doesn't stack up. This is super simplified but imagine: Option 1. Unticked: Item in front of 100 people. 50 sales. 2 fails Total profit $48 Option 2. Ticked: Item in front ...
Ideally Identification Verification should be completely automated and also made part of any new member sign up when they open an account. I've been banging on about that for many years. The technology is there to scan and assess drivers licences, Utility bills, passports, birth certs, from a user supplied photograph, and then automatically verify those against a selfie face ID photo. Many other websites manage it. Some of them carrying even greater financial risks than on here.