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Since it's confirmed that it's a Wise account and you didn't give the details they needed hopefully it was never released to the scammer and will be refunded to you eventually. Keep your fingers crossed!
NB: I think Wise NZ local accounts start with 04, if that's you, https://wise.com/help/articles/2978048/i-may-be-the-victim-of-fraud-or-a-scam
As another posted above indicated, this is the Community Message Board, I am not Trade Me. Most likely the account you paid is a "Wise" account, Wise (ex TransferWise) operates a service where overseas people (scammers in this case, but sometimes legitimate businesses) can have a local bank account in a country for people to pay them. The account number looks just like a "normal" bank account number, and works just like one too, there is no outward sign that it is a "Wise" account to the sender. Sometimes Wise requires extra information about the sender of funds to an account before they r...
Yeah that is a scam.
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.
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...
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.
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Since it's confirmed that it's a Wise account and you didn't give the details they needed hopefully it was never released to the scammer and will be refunded to you eventually. Keep your fingers crossed!
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NB: I think Wise NZ local accounts start with 04, if that's you, https://wise.com/help/articles/2978048/i-may-be-the-victim-of-fraud-or-a-scam
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As another posted above indicated, this is the Community Message Board, I am not Trade Me. Most likely the account you paid is a "Wise" account, Wise (ex TransferWise) operates a service where overseas people (scammers in this case, but sometimes legitimate businesses) can have a local bank account in a country for people to pay them. The account number looks just like a "normal" bank account number, and works just like one too, there is no outward sign that it is a "Wise" account to the sender. Sometimes Wise requires extra information about the sender of funds to an account before they r...
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Yeah that is a scam.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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...
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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.
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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.
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