This has been a problem for well over a year, unfortunately. There's a multitude of technical glitches are everywhere, or perhaps they are changes we are no advised about until they cross our paths and trying to make completion of trade.

However PING still requires sensitive Personal Banking Debit or Credit Card details, is this correct? Who exactly is PING and where are there New Zealand offices, including Customer Services offices? Do they have a New Zealand Business licence number as we can't seem to locate any of this information. Just wondering if this is perhaps a not so smart move on APAX as operators of Trade Me as we are in New Zealand with a much smaller population than say that more heavily populated countries of UK or USA or we understand pockets of South America where APAX also have offices?   Note that to oper...

Swift as a transfer mechanism for Bank Transfers works well if conducting International trade between banks.   The Match, Partial Match or other has always existed, speaking as a person who has worked in banks and retail where Cash Register Systems are used. We had to ensure Credit cards belong to who is using them with signatures on a "Carbon Copy" ( yes that's linked in with the Carbon Free spin) with that of the Credit card. An automated machine system will never replace effective Human Invention.   Due Diligence reading an advertisement, to establish if a person is genuine, making conta...

Thanks for this debz777 As a casual seller we have been mystified why we have had watchers disappear overall, can't see who is watching or which part of the country, our Fixed Price Offers to our watchers going no where - all this in the last 12 or so months. Used to be able to have smooth trade and swift Communications with our Watchers.   Your information is very helpful to clarify there's a multitude of problems with Trade Me as a result of Technical/ so called "Upgrades". If we were an investor in APAX we would be asking serious questions about misappropriation of funds amongst other qu...

AJ  Were the traders you were paying New Zealand based locals? A drop based trader with an outlet here? Or an International overseas based trader?   Regardless, everyone should be factoring into account monies transfered don't always equate to a successful payment transaction as there may well be insufficient funds for whatever reason, including non payments from other parties as we have seen so often over the years because of Hardware and Software problems Internationally. Once again, a link to none other than Billy Bot and the National Cash Register system.   Cash is King / Queen and alwa...

If our financial institutions were adhering to Rule of Law, with the basics and opened banks back up in our communities, many of the issues raised with payments would disappear overnight.   Asking for online ID and Biometrics must comply with all manner of Regulations to comply with the Privacy Act and is no guarantee to verify one and the same person. Anyone recall the collapse of Lombard Finance? Or Tower Finance? Look up the names of those people and it's merely the same sewerage seeping out involving the same Pass the Buck .   One must always have hands on checks and balances for Know Y...

This goes back to the use of Forms & Templates having transitioned to Digitisation robotics/ automation using a semi- conductor from Paper based systems unfortunately. There's many an example of these problems completing them without being afforded the choice to indicate yes or no or whatever like we all have been provided with prior to the current Digitalised systems. Hence having a real Human being involved is very important to function in society. A brickbat to the Tech / Telecommunications sector 

Still happening. Still showing a different number of listings for Sale on the left side column and that of our accounts page. Not good enough Trade Me Technical department and those in the wider scope of WWW. Please do better 

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Good day   Use search words related to items you are wanting to access  in your emails that Trade me have sent with copies of your listings...it pays to keep a copy of them despite them clogging up email storage ..the only problem we encounter is often the removal of photos so always keep a copy of your photos on a disk or elsewhere until you decide to do whatever you want with them. Don't just keep a copy of photos on telephone cameras as with technology there's always risks of losses of information.   Hope that helps.