What if buyers don't have a credit card and not in your area to pay cash for pick up?

Paula, this issue is a trademe searching issue, not a bidbud issue. IE; your auctions appearing on bidbud has no effect on the search not appearing on traeme. A lot of people only use bidbud to buy items on trademe as it has better bidding and searching tools. If you are wanting to sell stuff, why would you not want your items appearing there for those buyers, your just taking away some potential buyers. Doing this, its not going to help the searching issue on trademe for your auctions. 

Paying within 24 hours is the perfect buyer in my eyes.

Many, many years

Well as you couldnt wait, I'll provide.  Intrade sellers - will be happy because it means the buyers who dont want to pay the fee will buy from them instead of casual sellers where there is no fee - if the overall cost is cheaper. Casual sellers - may or may not be happy. They may lose sales due to the buyer not wanting to buy from them, but then again might be happy that they are paying considerable less in fees overall. Due to this, they may reduce their price which might counter the extra fee. They also maybe happy that the person getting the most advange of PING (non cash & buyer protec...

Are they listening - probably, will they change their mind - probably not Exactly how many do you know don't want to use ping compared to the 2 million active members?

Not sure how cash = bank deposit from a TradeMe payment option is concerned. Trademe is referring to handing over actual money when you go to collect something on pick up ("cash on pick up"). However I do find the "policy" from trademe confusing/contradictory. On one hand, they state that using bank deposits is against their policy and if you use this you "may" have action taken against your account. On they other hand, they say that people can pay for postage using bank deposits IF the postage amount was not included in the original auction.

Some don't read the prices correctly, some try to get out of paying the extra and for some it's because different courier companies treat some addresses as rural and some not. Either way, don't send it until they have paid the full amount

@honornz247 - note the ping fees of 2.19% apply both on the item and shipping cost, in most cases work out cheaper than the 7.99 success fee that WAS charged on the item. So just looking at it from a pure financial perspective, it doesnt benefit trademe more than you as they receive less in fees

No idea where they were based - as with most scams, what they appeared to be, and what they actually are could be, and probably are completely different. Im just glad I used ping and got my money back as they looked quite legitimate.