callum. Hard to tell if more negative feedback due to his new T&C which are to the point... "Please Note: I do not accept Payment by Ping If you pay by Ping I will immediately refund you and send account details for Payment Thank you for your understanding .... PAYMENT BY BANK DEPOSIT ONLY."

50bmg. Um, no. If you issue a full refund, then Trademe gets nothing beyond having the money wander into their system and the exact same amount leave the same day. The act of issuing a PING refund also reverses the appropriate fee charge on your account.

Re advising bank details in auction description, there is at least one in-trade member who states in all his auctions that he will immediately refund your PING payment and you will be sent his bank details. This seems a robust single finger approach towards Trademe policy! I pointed this out to TM but they took no action, no doubt due to his massive turn over

Twizel is an example where Aramex view it as rural and CourierPost do not. I now annotate my shipping to be "Aramex, nationwide, not their rural addresses " etc and also in my payment instructions list an address checker for the courier companies. Further, it continues to amaze me that folks cannot spell their street, township, RD #, get their post code correct, etc. Must be a big rock they lurk under. I also use CourierPost's extra large satchel service to the South Island rather than a "box" as much I sell is less than 3kg and fits within a lineflow satchel's volumetric limits. A small bo...