WITH THE CHANGEING TIMES AS FAR AS Trade Me is concerned, why cant i use a debit card on TradeMe. Is it just me, surely there must be a way of purchasing goods on TradeMe with a card that is acceptable to all parties. Yes the banks are changeing it would seem to Debit cards for local purchases and credit cards for off shore purchases, but i may very well be wrong on this. If this is the case is there an easy way to use my debit card any help would be very much be well recieved.                                                                        Cheers Bill

Please I am in a bit of a quandary as to selling handmade products of NZ woods Pendants Hairpins etc., but because of the downturn of the economy buyers are concentrating more on essential things, and I too am in the same boat. But now that Spring is on its way produce SHOULD BECOME CHEAPER giving the opportunity to splash out to buy that nick-nack. But to my horror, Trademe is allowing overseas products to sell here in NZ at prices that I feel are very unreasonable and even more so that they are machine-made, so we now find it very difficult to compete in a very small market, remembering A...

Can anyone please help me understand the idea of bidding on goods knowing full well the value of them yet persisting in trying to screw them to the last cent? For example, I have a personally made pendant valued by the jeweller professionals who did a valuation of $1600 which is brand new. The Citrine stone alone is selling for $551.00 on eBay. The same thing is also happening with other goods. While I can prove this, I want to know if this is ethical to deliberately buy off trade me and resell that same item with a 50% markup. Now I feel that according to the rules this is alright. But fro...