I'm with the others who object to having Ping forced on us. I'm a grown-up now, I can make my own choices. I've been allowed to use scissors unsupervised for ages now, I can also make my own money decisions. I've withdrawn my listings because I'm over being restricted and corralled 'for my own good'. Really hoping there's an improvement as it's sad to lose the Trade Me I used to enjoy.

Wouldn't it have made sense to have worked all of this stuff out before imposing Ping?

Wouldn't it be nice if Trade Me itself "basically just presented it in a better way."   

edit_window, I'm so heartened to see someone else say what I've been thinking - about Trade Me being weak enough for a competitor to have a chance. Through these posts, I'm seeing people complain over and over about the same bugs, difficulties, and malfunctions, but they never seem to be addressed. Instead the site is fussed and primped and 'improved' beyond reason.

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....

Okay, thanks. If it comes to the crunch I'll try that. Can it simplify editing? I tend to do a bulk quick relist and then change duration individually while double-checking postage (which keeps changing). Again all on one page with BB, but I had to page through several screens prior.  I will also miss the ease of viewing - all my listing in one list, with all the info I value on one line for each auction. 

Just found out about this myself. Don't use it for bidding but its been essential for listing and managing my auctions. Really wondering if I can go back to using Trade Me without the Bidbud interface, navigating endless screens was doing my head in. Absolutely can not understand why the Trade Me designers can't learn something from the Bidbud design- why would you want to use six screens to create or edit a listing when you can do it on one? It's my desperate hope that there's someone else like Andrew out there who will take on the challenge.

Callum, funnily enough, yes I do wear a car seatbelt. I have all the information, I know the risks (yes there are risks) and I'm 100% using the belt option. There are still people who don't, and some end up dead. I'm all for safety options being available, I'm not so comfortable with options being removed. To further your analogy, most cars (I don't know if all) will still operate if occupants aren't wearing seatbelts.