From what I've seen plenty of sellers are blatantly stating in their listing to not pay via Ping and how to move on from there.

@flash2004, Who got the survey then? Show of hands folks, cos I didn't.

This discussion was done to death months ago. No point in covering old ground now.

We've removed all listings in favour of promoting our website's webstore. TM was hardly moving anything for us over the last year or more anyway so no loss.

crystal69, That doesn't work. I just relisted 3 of our items and despite Bank transfer showing as an option during the manual relisting process all reverted to Ping or cash only  once listed, and those listings I've subsequently removed due to this.

sledgenzr That's pretty much my take on the situation. We have a long established website to revert to so are longer listing on TM as a result and it would be interesting to know how many others have withdrawn trading here similarly.

@osiris2 & Callum Surely the solution to potential liability would be best addressed by including a warning point in TM's T&Cs in regard to payment method safety rather than restricting and taxing all In Trade sellers in the way they have.

Testing your claim 'academy'

Back in the day Trade Me was the go to platform to make online purchases. These days TM is useful to find a business here that sells what you need so you can then hunt out their website to deal direct with them without the complications and added costs that go with the arm's length transactions resulting from TM serving as a 'third wheel' in the process. The whole Ping mandate situation will only make this all the more the case except I'm suspecting there will be less In Trade sellers to choose from very soon.

13 days before In Trade sellers start abandoning this place.