As we all (I hope) know, the Trade Me search is... very bad. In particular the "helpful" automatic category limiter ("snapping") and that the very short and limited title is searched by default (yes, you can quote to search the description, but general users don't know that). It is so bad that the difference between searching for a singular, and a plural of a word can produce wildly different results (ring terminal and ring terminals are just one example). So, how are sellers dealing with this? I've started slowly going through every single one of my products and for each one trying to thi...
Had not noticed before, but the name a community user displays, is not unique, and there is not necessarily any obvious way to distinguish them unless you go looking. Example, my own. There are two posts currently from James, one is me, one is not. Would get even more confusing if both posted in the same thread.
So short story, if as a GST registered seller you've had a recent compensation from NZ Post, you have probably found they did not pay you the GST due to their new policy not to. I'm just wondering if there is anybody here who has run that past thier accountant or IRD yet and what they had to say on the legality of the matter? My aggregator even requests an invoice made out to them for the supplies which they pay via credit note when the claim is paid... but without GST. It just doesn't seem legal to me to decide that GST doesn't apply to you even though it would for anybody else, and did fo...
Some of you might know Laserlinx's Kraft paper mailer envelopes sold on Trade Me. They are great, I send almost all my sales in them, highly recommended, but have you ever wondered how well they stand up to the rigours of the postal system? Well here's one that did a real tiki tour... Christchurch to Auckland to Los Angeles to San Carlos (near SFO) where it kicked back and forth between depot and postie for a bit to Los Angeles to Japan to Auckland to Christchurch the blue tape is mine to make sure the label stayed on. A bit crinkled but otherwise no worse for it's roughly 31 thousand k...