This is so incredibly stupid. This will stop me shopping on Trade Me for sure. I'll spend my money elsewhere. 

I reckon. They didn't have to do that at all. Q Card is still valid and they're not cutting anyone off anytime soon. 

Wow I can't believe you've just said that!! Q Card have not notified customers of being 'phased out' nor have other retailers stopped supporting it. At this point in time, Q Card is still viable and until we, the customer, are notified otherwise by Q Card themselves, then it's irresponsible of you to deny its use and to suggest we change to a different card. 

So there was a whole thread regarding us complaining about the new look trade me, but I can't seem to find it so am I to assume that TM is censoring the complaints now? A couple of months on now and nothing seems to have changed. I just spend the last 15 minutes trying to quick relist 3 auctions. Each time it failed yet it relisted one that I was asking it not to. Far out man, this is enough to send a sane person crazy. Why can't we see the seller statistics with these auctions? Apparently NO ONE is looking at my auctions, but if I click on them, then the stats say differently. Why can we n...

So Trade Me, you're telling me this was Q Cards update? Or was it yours? Because if it's yours, then you've just unilaterally inconvenienced 1000s and 1000s of Q Card holders for what? For an upgrade??? This is outrageous and not the least bit bad practice on your part. Sort it out and reinstate the ability to use Q Card!!