That is what Trade Me has become, a dumping ground for overseas sellers to choke categories with tens of thousands of listings, many over priced, with little chance of selling. But Trade Me is happy, because, hey we're taking on Ebay.
I suspect they will make more passive income off the interest of everyones combined ping accounts, than from sales. Which I suspect is the reason they forced ping on everyone.
Previously I didn't get email notifications on some of my saved favourites, despite all of them having the 'email me everyday' checked. A slight annoyance, but I lived with it. But at least the emails I did get showed the ALL of the latest listings AND the price. The new emails only show a few of the listings and some don't show the price. This means I'd have to go to my favourites everyday and manually click on all the 'favourites' in turn and then click on sort 'latest listings' to see whats new. I don't have time to muck around with that. It effectively makes the emails pointless. If the...
Dunno how I missed that!
If you use 'My Products' you can add a 'footer', which places that block of text into every one of your listings. You can then edit that footer in any of the my products items and it will update all the current listings. I'll often use it if I have to go out of town and I update all my listings to offer a cheap delivery to that area.
Who owns Stuff I wonder.....?