You could be right and if so that is just nuts. Personally, I think it's nut to put any load on a customer. All they want to do is not think and pay the price and postage or price only if pick up and move on. This looks and feels like a burden and it also might grow into a buyers premium. That works obviously at physical auction but I don't think it's going to work online because....no one else is doing it so if TM are doing it then it's just a psychological burden they don't need.
Quiz question: How do promote the benefits of in-trade sellers without sending a negative message to the customer around dealing with a casual seller? And to Greg, is there only a service fee for casual sellers customers? I didn’t pick that but if that’s true then that’s going to be nuts. Tbh I think any additional charge to buyers is just a barrier to entry. The horse has bolted. I can’t think of anyone who knows about FB MP who would see any of these changes on TMs MP that would change their preferred platform.
Defies common sense. Go google ‘art glass’ which is defined as ‘high-quality, often handmade glassware created primarily for decorative or artistic purposes rather than strictly for utility.’ Firstly, there’s no preference for ART GLASS - the term - in the results. Second, no preference for the categories it is likely to appear in - Antiques or Pottery & Glass. Third, one seller, judging by them sticking their stock reference number in title, seems to have a disproportionately high listing of results high despite titles sometimes only having ART or GLASS in the title only. How the hell are ...
I asked AI to analyse the response and this is what it said: With casual seller success fees now permanently removed on Trade Me, the obvious question is: What dedicated selling tools are actually exclusive to in-trade sellers? • My Products isn’t exclusive. • Storefronts cost extra. • Tradevine is separately paid. • Promotions are paid upgrades. So what exactly is included in the higher in-trade success fee? If there are genuinely dedicated tools, it would be good to see them clearly listed. From a strategy perspective, removing casual fees permanently increases listing volume and...
Hi Michelle, I’m in-trade and I don’t use any tools except My Products. And I’d be willing to bet that if in-trade sellers had the choice between no fees with no tools or our high fees with any tools, we’d all go for the former. In-trade seller provide more product per member, more service and more care, and are more conscientious on average and yet are fiscally punished for it. Bringing more people to TM is great but really hasn’t the chicken left the coup? You now have opposition and there’s mostly no restrictions. Just in case anyone wants some feedback: - feedback is the big plus...
Michelle, this makes the disadvantage for professional sellers, ie. people who cary all the risk and have TM interests at heart, the only ones who pay the exorbitant fees now and thus less competitive. What business course was this approach learnt on because my degree is in business and this goes against everything we learnt and of course in practice is just totally demoralizing. For those who don't know, in-trade sellers must pay not only higher fees than casual (unprofessional and occasional) sellers but they pay it on the shipping fee as well plus enforced Ping fees. Just as an aside, I ...
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....