Trademe is in a death spiral for sure. Our listings are receiving drastically lower views than ever before. It doesn’t help that the entire Pottery and Glass section isn’t even listed in places. Mind boggling. Today, I found I couldn’t find an item in My Products sold list via search even though I typed in the same as the title, hilarious. I see they have changed the new site when viewing unsold and sold but other errors just go ignored. Who’s have thought TradeMe could get to this a few years back?

Lucy, I pointed out rather clearly that TradeMe choose NOT to be pro-active around these scammers from what I can see. For example, these scammers hack into peoples accounts, create listings, and then change payment instructions or various other things. A simple confirmation email to the listed email of each hacked account would alert the account holders to having been hacked. Two-step authentication would stop it. Requiring authentication when a login from a new device occurs would stop these scams. I could go on but I don’t believe they are taking it seriously. That’s my opinion. An...

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph......TradeMe, are you good people? Do something, please. 

Last week my auctions had changed as if by magic to free shipping WTF! Definitely was not me and now it’s a maze to contact Trademe about anything yet fees have gone up. Brilliant!

Thanks SJ,My questions to TM would be:1/ when did that change occur?2/ why isn't that info showing up when the message shows up and3/ why make sellers jump through hoops to get fees they rightfully deserve back? I think I get grumpy in my old age :)

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I totally understand Ivan.I hit the buy now on a mic yesterday, $660, and immediately thought WTF am I doing!That's how easy it is for someone to forget what safe practices are. I wanted the mic, asked a question, got the answer, hit buy now, and then thought "didn't check if they had Ping, had checked feedback, hadn't checked when it was listed....blah blah blah"So I emailed the seller and asked if they could call me and tell me their bank account details so I could hear their voice, get their mobile number, and get as much piece of mind as I can. This is becoming ridiculous as TradeMe are...

OMFG!!!TradeMe, doing nothing is not doing everything!I lost several hundred dollars, so have others, and so will others from this point on.Telling members what to do to stay safe on YOUR site because YOU do not have sufficient processes in place is passing the buck to the people at risk and least capable of protecting themselves. Since this thread started, TradeMe have not told us of ONE change they have introduced and we have seen NO changes, admittedly some may have been implemented out of our sight. But the fact remains that several possible breaks in the scammers processes could have b...

There's been a lot of scams happening and I do not for a minute think TradeMe are taking these seriously. Thermomix has been one item that a lot have been scammed by. As for those accounts, they do look like ANZ but are generally 04 accounts which can be created in Australia so the NZ Police do not pursue. I think making Ping compulsory could be an answer but of course it just benefits TradeMe and costs sellers extra. But there's many other ways to ensure scammers aren't successful including the need to confirm logins etc. 

POLICE UPDATE:The Police called the other day when I suggested their email saying they would not investigate wasn't in the public interest. I was told the "04" bank account numbers are not operated solely by ANZ.An "04" bank account number can be operated by another entity and in my case was coming directly out of Australia.The Police advice was to tell people not to pay into any 04 accounts if you were suspicious. Apparently there are a lot of scams on TradeMe being brought to their attention and a quick google will see that many are ending up in the media and there's probably many more we...