Thank you. No, I didn't know of that change by Trade Me in August - nor am I aware of any notification by Trade Me - in fact, I have queried this "problem" with Trade Me and they have never mentioned the change. Regarding your strategy - do you have 2 listings of each item or do you make 1 new listing? Does this negate previous watchers knowing that the unsold item has been relisted?    

Why do relists show exactly the same number of watchers and same number of views that were evident at the close of an auction as soon as the item is relisted?????

This has been happening for weeks. And the same "excuse" is given by Trade Me each time. New features do not excuse "bugs" that remove previous viable and usable options. Not good enough Trade Me

I too have had these problems over past weeks and the multiple responses from Trade Me are lame (see below in bold). I can't offer fixed prices to watchers at the end of auctions and I can't list "similar items". Under the CGA, services supposedly offered by Trade Me are misleading   Kia ora, Sorry for the trouble – we’re upgrading some background systems that power Trade Me. While we do this, some features won't be available on certain listings. I'm afraid we can't offer more information than what we've provided already. Since the upgrades are being implemented gradually some features aren...