No, as a selling, you are only charged for ping. There is no double charge

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

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  

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

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.

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

Yes ping mght be a "money making ploy", but removing the success fee for casual sellers means that in most cases, casual sellers will be better off, so a loss for trademe.

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

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