One of the things TM did years ago was say it is essential to keep shipping costs low, so they added success fees to shipping, and what happened, shipping fees went up (of course). Now its compulsary ping, more fees and so shipping will go up again to compensate for additional fees

TM always do this when they go for a money grab, they come out with a "reason for the greater good" ie this time to make a safer site, and when they put success fees on shipping " to rein in those that charge cheap product price and hike the shipping to avoid success fees. While there maybe a a small element of truth in both, the reality we know it is only driven for the money grab, so weave a good story to justify it, and blanket punish all those by far majority traders who are good. Its very disingenuous and has lost so much trust in TM from its members. Also doing it at this particular t...

Like many of us long term traders, as you say we have repeat buyers, and they go through tm but always pay to the bank account as they dont like ping. Now as they will only have a ping option, and they have my email address, they will now just come direct to me. In that respect good for me as I dont pay fees on that trade, bad for TM as they lose all the fees they normally would have got for those trades which were paid by bank deposit

Another valid question to ask is why do the extra prices only go on the proffesional sellers and not casual ones? Effectively they are saying the proffesional sellers are the bad boys and the casual sellers and good. In reality in general, the situation is quite the opposite so it blows all the reasoning up completely exposing the falsity of TMs reasoning, talk about destroying your members trust.  If you do proffesional sales courses, the mantra is first develop trust in the salesman, then develop trust in the product. Dont think TM have been on these courses as they are doing neither of t...

Tom. Understand your sentiment there, but it is still a site for used stuff, but also extended into new items which is almost certainly its dominant part now, but that is driven by public demand. All websites evolve with the times or they die. However what gets most people is the constant increase in fees, with reducing margins, and also to a huge extent TM "fixing" the site which has been a disaster for years now with no end in site. And of course the dehumanising of the site making problem solving with customer service frustrating, slow and sometimes imposible

Enshi*tification, also known as cr*pification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers (such as advertisers), and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders. Sadly this is what is happening to TM