Simply tell them to win the auction, or select your buy now, you can then exchange details, when they come to pickup the bike, they can view it and if not happy, allow them the option to not proceed. Ask for cash as payment if they do proceed. Trademe will refund your success fee and you can relist it if the sale doesn't proceed after their viewing
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...
I keep getting asked how potential buyers can make an offer. Im an in-trade member. Any particular reason why the 'make an offer' functionality doesn't exist for in-trade members? Surely Trademe's most valuable members should have more functionality, not less?
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
Previously it was possible to click on any listing photo in the search gallery view, and it would take you to the listing. Now this doesn't work (Safari browser), I have to click exactly on the listing title. This seems counter intuitive, and definitely makes browsing much slower. Any others experiencing this?
Callum - yes, understand. But the risk of having to have a ping option is that it remains an available option, (even after discounting a product to reflect a cash price). Or are you saying ping can be removed as an option completely?
And now ‘in trade’ sellers have the pleasure of being forced to offer ping (and pay the associated fee to accept ping payments), under the premise that this makes it safer for businesses. Yet casual sellers can continue to choose whether to offer ping. I do offer ping, but sometimes accomodate requests to discount a product , provided payment is made with cash. I won’t have this option as a in trade seller with Trademe choosing to enforce ping for all listings by in trade sellers.
At what point do Trademe consider removing a member, or deleting their account? I've sold a product to a member with 70 positive feedbacks and 30 negative ones. As soon as I sold the item a week ago, I suspected the sale would fall through. So its no surprise that multiple emails later, and two missed promises of payment, I am still chasing payment. Surely it would warrant Trademe having a policy to remove these types of accounts when the trading history is clear?
I agree wholeheartedly Flossy63. I am in-trade and have for some time reported other members who are clearly reselling and who should be in-trade, they have multiple listings of the same item and list another as soon as one sells. It's been years of reporting the same sellers using community watch, without anything changing. I suspect they just ignore Trademe's email's requesting they declare themselves in-trade. A lot of trademe's policies are not really policies, as they are not enforced. If they are going to advertise criteria for being considered in-trade, then they need to enforce the...