The profit will be made using the flow of money going through the ping system.

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.