If you are selling your own things that you just no longer want, you are not a business. If you buy (or make) something with the intent to derive a profit in doing so, then you are in trade, a business, and you are required to do the necessary things such as but not limited to...   1. pay tax on your profits, and ACC levies on your income   2. abide by the Consumer Guarantees Act   3. potentially charge and remit GST on your sales   4. potentially get a 2nd hand dealer's licence In terms of #4, see this page from the Police for the specific criteria.... https://www.police.govt.nz/advice-ser...

Yes ping is worth it. As a buyer I much prefer to pay with Ping, and as a seller I much prefer to get paid with Ping.  So do my customers it seems because at least 95% of my buyers would use Ping. Edit to add:  After Pay is a different story though, I don't know that really is worth it, I only get a small number of buyers using it, and the fee is substantial.  

Indeed, and as for the selecting your courier, they did mention that they want to present applicable shipping methods to the buyer, so that could conceivably be used for rural-not-rural or PO Box filtering of shipping methods for example... but as Callum says doesn't appear to make any difference currently. Here is the Webinar for those who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUdRLe0Eh0g  

Trade Me advised today that they have implemented non-rural/urban only options now. That should make it less of a problem for many of us.

I got one the same as yours it seems, telling me to check standards toys and linking to some standard about lead content in toys... for a pastic battery cell holder. I assume because it's listed under   Toys & Models > RC & Robots > Parts & accessories > Batteries and that's probably all the "intelligence" their process has. Maybe comcom has been applying some pressure about dangerous toys being drop-shipped or something so they are bulk sending these to cover their a**.    

The search has been bad for so long. Searching title and description should be the standard way, people shouldn't have to cram stuff into a title to get their listing found. A good ranking algorithm, smart tokenisation, normalising, and stemming -  good full text search isn't that hard, there are solutions out there.  Doesn't matter if it returns a thousand, ten thousand, a million results as long as the ranking makes the first 20 are the ones you were actually looking for.  

My post has gone to pending beecause of the link, here it is screenshotted.

Go to the old sold items page https://www.trademe.co.nz/MyTradeMe/Sell/Sold.aspx click the feedback number of the buyer, and you should be able to see your feedback and an edit link.    

I assume it is all MVL listings, not just Max's Gary-NZStocked? Better add a note to my "you didn't choose what you wanted" email :/  

Works for me in 131.0.6778.85 desktop chrome. I don't use the app.