It is not about potentially being better off in 'most cases'. It is about being forced to have my payment be diverted through a system that I don't want to use, instead of coming directly from the buyer to me. If you think Apax Partners are doing this for the good of the average Trademe user, then see my listing for the Harbour Bridge that I am selling....

I am not interested in being forced to use their ping payment system. So will just shift all my ads over to facebook marketplace. Trademe could have a little slice of a lot of sales, but they have got too greedy, so they can have 100% of no sales.

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...

I can't speak for others, but I just want a site where I can advertise an item I don't want, and be put in touch with someone who wants it. That's it, nothing else. The buyer and seller can sort the details from there. All the other fluff that has been added to Trademe over the years, is of zero interest to me and is just clutter as far as I am concerned. I certainly don't want my money going through a third party system, that I have no control, or say in. Trademe is following a well trodden path of small family businesses, being sold and resold to various cooperates, who just try and extra...

Who owns Stuff I wonder.....?

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.

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.