"sellers could do with a hand from the company to attract buyers back"

You do realise that with the removal of the success fees, in most cases the ping fee will be less so you'll actually be better off after this comes in?

And these prices include the price of the bag so if you package yourself and send instore its $1 or more cheaper depending on the size  

Try using myproducts, its mostly unaffected by the changes and saves significant time with both list and automated relisting/FTO. There is a a bit to learn when you start, but seriously you'll wonder why you didnt start uing it earlier

Felinequwen, yes the scams will still happen but coming from someone who has been hit twice, paying by ping was a godsend. Got my $1600 and $1200 back within a few days. If i had make a bank deposit, who knows if i wouldve ever received the money back

For casual sellers, you don't think its enough of a hand that trademe has dropped the success fee?

I disagree. Yes there are a lot of buy now new items from bulk sellers, but most of the things i buy have been via an auction. Most casual sellers will have cheaper fees now with no success fees so I cant see prices increasing to factor in the ping fee, more likely just keep the same (and make more from the same) or decrease to factor the cheaper fees. $1 fee on a $20-$100 item is nothing really. Yes it gets higher, but you'd then consider the overall price including that when purchasing - like when you factor shipping and any other costs.

No, the seller pays the ping fees. The buyer pays a very small service fee.

There is some logic with the buyer paying the service fee 1 some sellers believe if the buyer wants to use ping, they should pay for it not the seller. They do get extra benefits like buyer protection 2 most other auction places charge the buyer a "buyers premium" so it's not unusual in the auction world for a buyer to pay some form of "fee"

I get that people dont want to use it - and probably for a variety of reasons. One of them being the fees, so Im simply responding to the comments about the fees specifically as some dont realise they will infact be better off financially.