Cheers, I'll drink to that !!  Don't think Trade Me have much to celebrate at the moment :-(

I can understand why the automatic regeneration of the watchlist when items are relisted might be thought to be useful but I'm hating it. I have no way of knowing anymore whether I have new or continued interest in my listings, or if its just the 'once-off' browsers stuck on my listing for eternity. Surely the old message  'this item on your watchlist has been relisted' was enough for people who were genuinely watching long-term. 

Shouldn't the issue be choice? Buyers and sellers choosing the method they feel most comfortable with. If the buying trend goes the way of Ping, sellers then choose to adopt it or not.  Let it evolve naturally, rather than forcing it on people. If its such an all singing, all dancing fantastic option, then won't sellers turn to it voluntarily? And if they don't, maybe it's not so fantastic after all....

Only found out about this today, from having sale go straight to ping. I don't want to use ping, bank transfer or cash has been working perfectly well with no hassles. Then I find I can't even opt out, and the bank option isn't available. How can it be ethical to change my auction payment methods without any notification, and not even allow me to opt out. Haven't been able to find any explanation from Trade Me yet, still looking. It appears to be just my clothing listings, so guess that's something else I won't bother listing any more. Getting really close to giving up on Trade Me, their 'i...

If the only advice you get from Trade Me is to fossick around in the help and tips pages, maybe they could reconsider their basic design. How can people have a good experience if nothing is clear, and can only be found if you know the right tricks?

I used to choose who to send offers to based on feedback and also location. For pick-up only items I'd have watchers from all over, but preferred to select local people if I was going to offer. Another thing to add to my list of things needing to be fixed before I try using TM again....

Callum, unfortunately what is common sense to you is not common to all, and I have no way of knowing if it's genuine interest (so why no bid, or question on my listing?) or just folk who don't think to check or cull their watchlist. Why put the effort into making this a feature when time could be better spent on fixing bugs, like the never ending expired listings issue?

That thing about watchlists is so strange. I'm finding my watchlist items keep getting automatically returned to my watchlist if the item is relisted. And I have the same watchers on my listings over and over, so I have no idea whether I have new interest or not. I could write quite a hefty tome about all the bugs they aren't fixing while they make 'improvements' that make the site less and less accessible. Perhaps, as someone else mentioned, there is now an opportunity for a genuine rival. They need only set what what Trade Me was to begin with, and deal with the original bugs, and they'll...

Do Trade Me not care that the expired listings give useful information regarding what listing price might be reasonable or successful? Keeping in mind a successful sale generates income for them....