Yes, its king of annoying. While all my courier stuff has TM shipping templates attached to them, I have some larger item which have to go on freight. My freight company quotes per job location( and dont produce a set of rates) so its not possible to quote as per TM shipping templates as there are many hundreds of different prices for NZ. King of between a rock and a hard spot. While I offer shipping options to main cities , business zone delivery, all other locations need to be custom quoted

No Amy. There is no rule about "when" you should place feedback as it is voluntary , you can place when you like or not at all. TM do however have guidlines about feedback. " General guidelines All Traders are expected to maintain a feedback rating of at least 95%. We encourage members to place feedback for all trades. Feedback is a permanent part of your Trade Me account. Negative feedback can be disputed for up to 45 days from the date of purchase.   Although certain exceptional circumstances will result in feedback being removed or edited, feedback will remain a permanent part of you...

If possible split into multiple less voluminous parcels as couriers will then be able to take probably

If within same city, $8.50 would pretty much cover a stamp album. Can only see the reason for asking extra shipping if you paid urban shipping but are a rural address "with his courier", then $6.50 is ok for the rural extra price

It seems you have already identified what "may" be the issue, ie thet they have more than one of that item to sell. If they only had one and they put it out for bidding, and it did not reach the $$s  they had hoped for, they may be tempted (against TM rules) to relist at a higher price and abandon your sale. If they are selling it at the same price as you bought for, there is no benifit in them relisting, if only one item.

Gary. From what you have posted here from android, it would seem the seller  sees a different view to the buyer as you are posting a buyer view there, which is different from my seller view.  Under"Next steps" I only get option of placing feedback or booking a courier "Seller details"/ "buyer details" will be the same, but obviously reversed for buyer or seller. The next section for me as seller is "Payment details" just listing reference #, sale price, shipping option selected, shipping price and total to be paid. However from your screen shot (as a buyer) the next section is "instructions...

Hi Callum. Yes. I was the seller. Payment instructions sent automatically each sale to buyer. Buyer claims they cannot find on the TM app on phone. So I can see they are on my desk top site which I usually use, but decided to check they are visible on the app. So I looked on the sale on the app and cannot find payment instructions anywhere. Can you guide me to what I click through on in the app to find? Im on android, although im not sure the navigation in the android app would be any different to the apple app version.

Simon. What is your reasoning for wanting to remove them?

Can understand what S says. While not involved in coordinates at all in past, there can be numerous delivery boxes at one gps coordinate, so could easily be the wrong box it was delivered to.  You are not able to get signatures for rural delivery however  so how can a seller ever produce evidence of correct delivery there? They cannot if TM only accept a signature. The other issue with signatures is couriers forge them, or some other person at the delivery site signs for it, either under their own name, or under the receivers name(and of course then that's a false signature and not valid pe...

Lorayne.  Yes, every bodies shipping costs have gone up, unfortunately like everything else we buy. In reality unless you increase shipping, you will be making less and less on each sale. Also at present the general sentiment from sellers is that sales are going down generally. Mortgage rates, fuel, food and infact most things have seen considerable rises so people have less disposable income now after paying for essentials.  When setting your shipping price, be aware shipping cost is not just the courier ticket price, it includes all the other costs involved in the shipping activity. This ...