Thanks

@Harm_less: does removing a listing not incur a $3.50 fee for in-trade sellers?

In 20 years maybe 2 people have taken up an offer, so not worth it. Most seem to be others selling or intending to sell the same thing and wanting to know what it sells for.

Sigh. I WAS talking about casual sellers and those having a clean-out or having to clear a household. I wish commenters thought of others before posting. Flossy, if you do not want the "Buyer can make offer" option then leave it OFF - is that so hard to do? Why NOT give people who want it the option?

Thanks. As far as I can tell in-trade sellers have their own Trademe system for selling now, so there should be no problem with implementing it - not that I keep my hopes up the way Trademe ignores all the good advice given on the forums. It also makes no sense to not let in-trade sellers make offers … 

The problem is that TM quotes are just estimates, the actual postage can be more. Sometimes couriers raise prices - I once had to pay over $10 more than TM estimated because of that.

What Callum and S say is not quite correct. You CAN still open your old listing (I just opened an old listing from June 8th to test) and click on "Sell Similar" or copy the text and start a new one - just look for the "your auction closed" message from Trademe and click on the link in there.

… and just got "Sorry to hear the trouble with the trade hasn’t been sorted. A Disputes Officer in our team will be reviewing this under our Buyer Protection policy and will be in touch within the next four weeks." That's just embarrassing.

Another problem I've encountered is that I use Ublock Origin which lets you block ads and large pictures etc - when I come to my page with the pictures I have to disable the picture blocking.

I would doubt that it is not causing serious harm when people use it as a security camera to monitor their garden or driveway and it turns out what they want to monitor is not even in the range of the camera. You are also paying quite a bit more for features that simply aren't there, and as it is a power seller with over 22,000 positive feedbacks, and if he sold 1,000 of the cameras, then he defrauded people of about $30,000.