No he does not have to " must have " at all. Yes 15 years ago I signed up with one , but I no longer can use a phone.
My browser is automatically updated, but let's see if its the listing: You will need to go to buy now, and pressing on delivery instruction causes the " Please enter a phone number " in red Try this one ; https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/sports/hunting-shooting/archery/other/listing/5751287931 and this one https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/home-living/outdoor-garden-conservatory/garden-power-tools/other/listing/5751388499 and you should get
Gosh what a funny reply like lecturing, on how to discriminate. Obviously identification and fields that are mandatory requiring phone numbers needs to change to accommodate those with a disability or of age, that they cannot use phones. Being constructive, what do you suggest ?
Pacifying as you suggest, with false information , is not at all proper. The answer is to make the field optional and not mandatory, for the reasons already stated.
And here is example of the mandatory phone number field.
You have correctly identified the circumstances but are wording as assumption. As example "for courier purposes" your answer guesses that "you can ignore" because in reality the buyer has no choice of their own to ignore, rather they cannot complete the sale, other than complete the phone number field. OR give up on that purchase and move to a more considerate seller. And again your missing the detail and inventing excuse , as its not "stated as a term of the purchase in their description " , other than finding out that the phone field is mandatory. TradeMe need to adapt different ident...
It may come as a surprise but market places need to adapt to the very fact, that not every one has, or uses a phone. Trade me, in respect of that choice, needs to remove the mandatory requirement of a phone being required to complete a sale , and instead make it an optional requirement. It otherwise is discriminatory Humans Rights Act 44(1) (b) namely provision of goods and services, that some can access to purchase only because they have such a device , and others who do not as a result of age or disability , cannot .