100%. I'd love to see TM attempt to apply the Ping-only method of payment to their casual sellers. Maybe if we are good boys & girls they'll reward us with an annual Ping-free day.
Callum. The bug pertains to items not remaining on members watchlists and promptly disappearing post-auction. But you already know this, as have Trade Me for a good year plus. It'd be common sense if Trade Me did something about fixing their various mounting problems before the rot set in any further. Must be time for a fee increase, albeit only for in-trade NZ sellers.
No, they do not care. It is one of the many problems that has dogged Trade Me for some while now & it's basic stuff. Saving an item to your watchlist no longer guarantees that it will stay there & you are able to find the outcome of the auction. If Trade Me wishes to continue to increase their fees, & force Ping on sellers, then it would be nice if they could at least provide a service that functions semi-smoothly, which it no longer does.
I reckon they'll do hard labour &/or be forced to accept Ping as a method of payment.
There should be no overseas sellers full-stop on Trade Me. Aussie bidders are fine in the main but even then there's always going to be more than the occasional problem with posting overseas/receiving payment etc. The rubbish being sold out of China is an embarrassment to Trade Me, why on earth would you open the floodgates to that mass-produced disposable junk. Solely for more money regardless of the aggravation that goes with it & the inability to police it.
Thanks Callum for the explanation, much appreciated.
I just wanted to know why this is possible, is it simply because a member had it on their watchlist? I would've thought the fact that the item had been deleted from my unsold items would've overridden that? If I delete an item, it's because it's no longer available on this site, as I may wish to sell elsewhere. I would prefer to not have the item able to be offered out after it's been deleted.
Hi Callum, thank you for your reply but I don't mark sense of your comment "But don't forget it only captures the title of the listing. Not the description". As the search pertained only to key words in the title. Expired listings searches have never been as unreliable as they are at present.
How come you can search some key words of a listing in expired listings & not find it but type in a couple of others & find it? Take a case in point that you were looking for the sales history of CLIMBING PLANTS by CHRISTINE & JOHN NICHOLLS. First try searching CLIMBING PLANTS in expired listings in the book category. No joy? Then try CHRISTINE NICHOLLS. Success! Why is this the case & how long has this now been going on for? Are Trade Me looking to remedy this or quite content to put it in the 'too hard & just another problem to fix' basket? Please sort out all your bugs and your search en...
Callum, it's the fact that it is being forced on some & not all & that there's a 2.1% surcharge. Trade Me clearly feels as though they need to follow eBay's model with PayPal in order to take another slice of the pie. The viewing numbers on auctions are way down & they're never coming back up to what they once were. If you place the same item on Fbook Marketplace, you are going to get a heck of a lot more views & interest for better or worse. Adding a surcharge onto a site, which is already fast dwindling in popularity with Kiwi's, may net some short term revenue but things look bleak for t...