Be aware that if you use the shopping cart you can not pay by internet banking.  You can only pay by internet banking if   1. the seller has enabled it, and   2. you purchase the listing individually, not using the cart I sometimes get people asking why they can't use IB on my listings.  They can, they just tried to do it using the cart.

 I want to know why the success fee is also charged on the shipping charges Because before the fees applied to shipping as well people used to dodge fees by inflating the shipping and reducing the item price -  like Product $5 and Shipping $15 instead of Product $10 and Shipping $5.  So the fees were put on the whole lot to make that no longer and useful fee-dodging technique and make sellers be more honest about shipping costs.  

Given you have a strong preference simply ask the seller which courier they use, or if they can use Courier Post.  If they don't reply or can't use Courier Post, then find another seller. Not the end of the world. Of course, if they say they do, and then they don't, that would earn them a blue from me at best.  

@Farida you need to contact the seller and ask them to refund you.

You need to do it from the "old look", go to an invalid page, like this one will do... https://www.trademe.co.nz/wrongturn and then paste the P number into the search bar there. You can only search your own P numbers (you are buyer or seller).

It is what it is unfortunately.  Depends a lot on the items you are selling, people seem to often not really understand that the price of an item does not reflect the price to ship an item.  A $1 item with $10 shipping is seen as outrageous, while a $100 item with $10 shipping is seen as perfectly acceptable. If you are selling mostly items of a good value then a flat rate average shipping is a good way to go.  Unfortunately for me it's not the case, if I offer flat rate for both urban and rural (as I have in the past when it was much cheaper) then I get a lot of rural buyers spending a dol...

Private sales are caveat emptor (aside from misrepresentation), and as far as the seller is concerned anything could have happened in 4 months. In short, forget about it.  

Not possible to leave feedback when you didn't purchase it on Trade Me. As you paid in cash, outside of the Trade Me process, there's nothing Trade Me can do for you in this transaction either. Your best and realistically only course of action if the seller is not helpful, and you believe you can show that the vehicle was misrepresented, is to take them to the Disputes Tribunal.

From the webinar:   "over the next few months we're going to start to phase out a free text option for buy now only listings through our professional seller listing channels"   My expectation here is that this means you won't be able to use the free-text (ie not-new-template) shipping options in My Products, TradeVine and any other tools using the API.        

They didn't take any questions, what you see is exactly how it went, wasn't live or anything just a pre-recorded thing.