I’m surprised there is not some automatic way for Trademe to identify people posting phone numbers in Q&A. Surely can’t be that difficult, look for a series of numbers, numbers spelt as words, or numbers either side of ‘dot’ . I get it all the time on my listings, people commenting, “can you contact me on zero two one etc etc “

I’m confused, isn’t the make an offer feature optional? Ie if in trade members had the option of using it, we could turn it off and on, per listing. You both make it sound as though enabling this feature for in trade members would mean we a forced to activate it across all listings? I must be mistaken , as I was always of the understanding that casual members chose whether to activate it or not. Back to my original question, surely in trade members should have more functionality , not less? Enabling make an offer, would be the preference of the business, but why is the option not ava...

Callum - I’m using desktop Safari. Cleared all browser history, and still no luck. I guess whatever release trademe did recently , they forgot Safari was a thing

I'm also scratching my head trying to apply some logic to sending 'payment instructions'. I've previously had payment instructions set to send automatically, but given Trademe no longer allow bank deposit, do payment instructions still make sense? I guess if I add cash as a payment option, and then ask the buyer to deposit into my account, they have the payment instructions with the bank account details, all sort of defeats the purpose of removing the bank deposit payment option doesn't it....

Thanks Callum. It doesn’t seem a very well thought out decision. It seems to be impacting many sellers. Also seems the change was only forced on in-trade sellers vs casual sellers, I would have thought being in-trade would generally provide additional assurances to buyers vs increased likelihood of being scammed by a casual seller. I’ve never once had an issue with bank deposit, in over 10 years of selling/buying. I guess I’m trying to apply common sense / logic to the decision, but perhaps just have to accept that common sense and logic doesn’t always apply to these decisions. I guess...

Callum, yes realise that. I posted in this thread but my post is pending. I questioned why bank deposit would be removed , but a cash option be available. How is bank deposit any less secure than cash? I’d prefer cash being deposited in my bank account, vs having cash handed to me in person.

Thanks Michelle. How is cash any different to a cash deposit made to a bank account? In NZ cash is legal tender, and I’m struggling to get my head around why bank deposit would be removed as an option, while cash is still available. It’s clearly having an impact on my sales given I previously offered bank deposit, and many of my sales used this payment method. I understand the need to offer ping and afterpay, both of which I’ve always offered, I’m struggling to understand the reasoning behind removing bank deposit as an option from listings which already offer ping as an option.