Given the disrespect shown traders by TradeMe, I hope this thread keeps going forever. Only today did I learn the insistence on denoting who was in-trade had nothing to do with any pressure from Govt else Marketplace would be forced into the same thing - they don't. I want rehash the massive disadvantages and zero advantages of saying we are in-trade but it's clear, to me at least, it had nothing to do with customer service or protection but was designed to segment accounts into those they could pressure and those they could not. Survey - nothing here. Payment - yes, people are circumventin...
“From Monday, 3 November, new listings from in-trade sellers will exclusively use Ping, with cash and Afterpay as optional additions.” “From Nov 3, in-trade sellers will only be able to use Ping, Afterpay and cash as payment options in new listings. That means bank transfers … will not appear as a payment option for in-trade sellers.”
Yes, it's ridiculous. Sell a phone I think and it's 5.9% and sell an antique or china vase and it's 14% if using Ping. And they wonder why those categories are dying with a mega low sell through rate.
I'm selling up by year end. I've had enough and between TradeMe fees and restrictions and relentless postage increases, online auction sites aren't workable for antiques and collectibles. I may do something else, smaller, quicker turn around, but the antiques and pottery sections have been on decline almost from when I began 20 years ago. Back then a nice item would get 100 views and 10 watchers, a very nice item maybe 1000 views and 100 watchers. These days over half of my listings don't get a watcher and the entire category is now no longer on the home page for reasons only TM would know....
And does anyone notice how we are no longer posting under our name but our username now?
Forcing Ping is actually forcing other conditions on pro sellers in addition to removing certain payment options. More fuel for a complaint. TradeMe why are you charging us more and tightening and limiting conditions over casual sellers? You are disincentivising pro sellers which can only mean the net outcome is a higher percentage of casual sellers who by averages are more likely to lead to a poor selling experience. Just because someone is in trade does not mean they can ship economically in small batches. By establishing an arbitrary three day shipping period, you may force sellers t...
Callum, I think Cave-man22 has probably set up his computer wrong, so have I. On my laptop, clicking on the buyer email just opens an email like it should. But on my iPhone clicking on it asks me to choose mail or gmail and Mail mean iCloud mail which I dont have set up and gmail for some reason on my iPhone sends it from my daughters gmail account. I haven't been bothered to change it but I assume this is what he's running into....I think.
Two weeks I put Ping on all my auctions Hardly anyone has used it. So when Ping is forced, sales will plummet when all those who don’t have a credit or debit card can’t buy. Everyone knows I’ve wanted to move out of this business so this is just another signal from above. But this is like a Trumpian move designed to obviously force some change of buyer or seller behaviour but I do not believe it has anything to do with making the site safer or even drive extra revenue for TM. It’s shame transparency can’t be seen in this scenario.
Trademe apparently make their money from cars and property these days with marketplace probably being yesterdays news. Having said that I still don’t get the disincentives they throw at professional sellers who in the main would cause them less problems. Much of the secondhand items that are sold by dealers are sold with better descriptions and better service than randoms so when we are gone I’d say that’s the end of marketplace. As for feedback, there used to be a time when bad feedback was clamped down on, those days are gone. Same as sellers on multiple items flooding categories, n...
I wonder if we’ve reached the tipping point where people stop selling then buyers stop looking then it spreads from one category to the next and plop! Commerce Commision are a sad excuse these days compared to what they used to be thanks to under funding.