And I just noticed that TM has breached my privacy, without notice, by sharing my full name on this post. What a crappy experience TM is turning into.
Stoopid Trademe is stopping me from asking a technical question on a battery listsing Here's the actual attempted question after changing numbers to words, it still fails to post.
I have no idea what the comment above means.
"The hacked account would have had enough credit to cover the Success Fee - otherwise the listing would not have been allowed to proceed" Not my experience, normally when I am selling the success fee will make my account overdrawn which blocks me from creating further listings. At that point TM do not have the cash, just an accounting transaction which they will reverse. I cannot see them crediting it to the scammed member. FYI, the private equity crowd (Apax) that bought TM in 2019 are looking at floating it on the sharemarket in 2024 so they will have iron tight control over costs to boo...
My guess is that they will not have received their commission because the hacked account would have had a zero balance, and your payment did not go via Ping etc. Still it is worth asking.
Be careful, there are a number of TM accounts that have been hacked and the payment details go to a bank where your money will very quickly be whisked offshore. TM and the banks know of this issue and are not doing much to help the victims. Look at the thread I started a few days ago, and a similar one by Nathan.
Hi Nathan, I almost got scammed. See my thread in this forum. Luckily the scammer had not changed the email address in TM, so my email to them bounced back which made me suspicious. I reckon the account that was hacked had been inactive since 2017 and used a xtra email so had clearly been compromised. TM need to up their game, they are facilitating fraud in this country. If they cared, or were forced to care, about their "members" they would routinely deactivate accounts which have not been used for years. Also they are now too stingy to pay the postage for address verified so we really a...