It’s certainly a very interesting development, a store charging someone an additional fee (in addition to the cost of the item) for the privilege of buying something in their store. It feels a bit like the very surcharge's for digital payments that the government are trying to remove. Personally I think the issue with Trademe isn’t the success fee itself, but it’s the percentage charged. NZers don’t have a huge market to sell to, so Trademe should never be able to justify the level of fees the likes of eBay charge - despite this, I sell on both platforms, and I pay lower fees on eBay. ...

Henleyworks - I’ve raised this multiple times, after I was shocked to find out that overseas based sellers have an unlimited listing allowance and no high volume listing fees. Hence they can list hundreds of thousands of listings even if none of them sell. I’ve seen some sellers with 200,000 listings, and less than 100 sales across a 2 year period. I’m yet to comprehend how Trademe can think this benefits the site.