I resent being dictated to how I have to be paid (ping) and it is the final straw for me. Trade Me's point of difference; good search engine, good customer service, clearly defined categories, and overall good usability, have all been eroded over the last ten years. The clogging up of categories by overseas bulk listers (listers, not sellers) with very poor feedback ratings and increased fee's, including fee's on postage when I use a third party have all been detrimental to the platform. Putting my time into own website rather than wasting anymore time here. As a side note, sales on my pers...
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harm_less Same here. Only logged in this evening because I got an alert about fresh posts on this thread. I have been concentrating on other avenues. I have even found my personal TMe account see less traffic in the last six month's. They have just pushed the cooperate greed a bit too far imho.
"How about TM look at a buyers history. If they've proven themselves trustworthy, then they get to use Internet Banking as a payment option" How about Trade Me stay out of how people wish to pay one another full stop. And stop clipping the ticket on third party postage arrangements.
I see a few smaller In Trade sellers are also stating they do not accept Ping in the listing description, and good on them. How Trade Me think they can dictate how third party's pay each other and then clip the ticket is beyond me. An example: "Please do NOT pay by ping (Trademe won't let me turn ping off!) Cash or internet banking are fine, please read my payment instructions. Select cash so I will email you my bank details "
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Turners, Turners Trucks and Skylark were the ones that I noticed. As pointed out, hardly a level playing field, but it hasn't been level for years, when you look at the influx of overseas sellers and the dodgy practices they seem to get away with. I can't comply with Ping terms and can't justify giving anymore to TradeMe as they are already taking a sizable cut. So just going to sit back and see if there is any positive outcome with the ComCom avenues. Hopefully TradeMe see sense and drop the mandatory Ping nonsense and allow In Trade sellers to use their preferred option of bank deposits, ...
Interesting. I just happened to be browsing some listings and noticed two of the largest disposal/liquidation sellers on Trade Me and both are offering Bank Deposits for payment. Both are In Trade. The payment options on one is "NZ Bank Deposit, CREDIT CARD +2% convenience fee" and the other is "Ping and NZ Bank Deposit" So one doesn't even have the mandatory Ping option. How is this possible, when Trade Me are saying all In Trade sellers must use their Ping payment option. More deceit?
sledgenzr To be honest, I wouldn't put much faith in Trade Me statistics. What defines an 'active member' ? Is an active member someone who adds an item to their watch list? What about a member that hasn't looked at Trade Me for 6 months, but unknowingly still gets items added to their watch list automatically every time that item is relisted, because the member happened to add it to their watch list once, 9 months ago....
Robster For some reason the Antique category incurs a success fee percentage of twice that of some other categories.