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.
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...
Trade Me have not been able to improve upon this in a good 3 months now. I guess it's a work in progress.
Could Trade Me please let me know when they have sorted out their time-keeping issues & it is safe to place a listing again. Thank you.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/bulk/listing/4938947267 It's currently still on my watchlist and showing 29 mins to close but it has closed half an hour ago. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/bulk/listing/4938952361 Same with this one.