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  

Im far from being a superuser

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

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"

50bmg My bank used to have a secure id token for accessing my online banking on my laptop, they got rid of that and enforced me to use the app to access my online banking on my laptop. If I dont like this, I can use another bank. If you dont want to be forced to use ping, you have the choice not to use trademe

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.

Well they are only paying a small fee, not the complete success fee. I doubt most will think $0.99c extra for a $99 item is the end of the world

You do realise they have removed the 7.99% success fees which means they will be receiving a reduction in fees