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Oh God! I thought it was just me! I take photo - look at on my camera and it looks fine, I then upload photo onto my PC and review it, and it looks great! I upload it to my listing and it looks like a dogs dinner. I know my photography is not great but this site is doing me no favours righ now and making my already mediocre work even more trash. Its important for our ability to be able to sell stuff to be able to put up decent photos.
I have been waging a one man war on Aramex for long time, and I know I have cost them thousands, by using other carriers, like Pack and Send, as well as getting other people to check out their google reviews (have a look at the google reviews for the Christchurch Branch - but dont do it before bed time, it will give you nightmares), to spread the word about how horrific this company is. The sad thing, is that generally their drivers do try hard, (I have seen exceptions here as well, like turning up at 5 am and then complaining that there was no one around to collect the parcel from). The pr...
My issue with them, is that they seem to cause more than their share of issues with buyers, now this effects us, because if buyers get to annoyed/frustrated/upset they leave the platform, T-Me is no longer a monopoly, the Buyers have other places to shop online. If Buyers transfer to other platforms, it makes my potential audience smaller. If there feeback rating drops bellow 95% after 50 trades (a little bit of grace given for "learning") then they should be insta kicked, gone, bye-bye sunshine.
For us if someone asks - that's fine, (you never know unless you ask), But when they get told "No sorry", and they ask again, that is when they end up on the blacklist, because it is the only way of ending the conversion. Quite often though, giving a discount ends in pain. A few things can happen / go wrong. Like - Lowering the buy now, after someone asks for a discount, then someone else hits the buy now. (This is the most common problem, then you get person "A" complaining in another listing that you sold "their" item to someone else .... ) You also get the - "Can you lower the price?" '...
Hi there Mark I hate Aramex, they are less than pond scum as far as I am concerned. How long has been? If you are sick of waiting, and worried about your customer, you could just take the parcel to the Aramex depot yourself and drop it off. Up to, but if you look at the time you have invested in this so far, just taking it yourself might be a good way to cut your losses, you would also have the pleasure of throwing your toys out of the cot when you got there. (Just don't go so far as to get yourself trespassed).
If you left them a feedback, you can access the wording for the old auction through that feature. I would warn you against using the exact description, you have used it in the mean time, so you will need to update any condition issue. But also ethically - to copy and paste would be plagiarism, seller work very hard at their content creation, if you did a straight copy and paste of someoneles work you may cause offense with the original creator, certainly use it for inspiration, but I wouldn't do a direct copy.
I get very frustrated with this system. My current bugbear is Daggers, for the life of me I don't even know why you guys have a section for daggers, when we are seemingly not allowed to list them... I have had a few discussions in the past with the trust and safety team, but the interpretations of what the rules are, seems to change with each staff member, and also each year (as staff move on, and new ones come aboard). What seems to be happening at the moment, is around double edged blades, so all the Fairbain Sykes are getting pulled down, because they have a double edge, now they used t...
A few options Pal (I hate it when people troll, so been down this road a few times sadly). A) You could just ignore it and not answer, (It will show at the end of the auction however) B) Answer it - either with a dot (like this .) which will clear it - or if you can think of some witty answer that belittles them and makes them look stoopid then do it, just put them onto your blacklist first, so you end the conversation and have the last word. (This can be the most satisfying way of dealing with it!) C) Reach out to live chat - Like S has suggested. To be fair, this is a proper good option. ...
This has annoyed me in the past too, If there is a Ladies Retro category there should also be a mens! We like to rock vintage fashion too!
S, Cool I did a CW this morning - worded it slightly differently from yours but same general gist. I also requested that they contact them, and warn them off such behavior in the future. Here is the categories I put it under. Category = Just this listing Why do you want to report this ? = Another Trade Me Policy is being breached What exactly is in breach? = A bidder is artificially bumping up the price What is the bidders user name? ************
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Oh God! I thought it was just me! I take photo - look at on my camera and it looks fine, I then upload photo onto my PC and review it, and it looks great! I upload it to my listing and it looks like a dogs dinner. I know my photography is not great but this site is doing me no favours righ now and making my already mediocre work even more trash. Its important for our ability to be able to sell stuff to be able to put up decent photos.
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I have been waging a one man war on Aramex for long time, and I know I have cost them thousands, by using other carriers, like Pack and Send, as well as getting other people to check out their google reviews (have a look at the google reviews for the Christchurch Branch - but dont do it before bed time, it will give you nightmares), to spread the word about how horrific this company is. The sad thing, is that generally their drivers do try hard, (I have seen exceptions here as well, like turning up at 5 am and then complaining that there was no one around to collect the parcel from). The pr...
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My issue with them, is that they seem to cause more than their share of issues with buyers, now this effects us, because if buyers get to annoyed/frustrated/upset they leave the platform, T-Me is no longer a monopoly, the Buyers have other places to shop online. If Buyers transfer to other platforms, it makes my potential audience smaller. If there feeback rating drops bellow 95% after 50 trades (a little bit of grace given for "learning") then they should be insta kicked, gone, bye-bye sunshine.
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For us if someone asks - that's fine, (you never know unless you ask), But when they get told "No sorry", and they ask again, that is when they end up on the blacklist, because it is the only way of ending the conversion. Quite often though, giving a discount ends in pain. A few things can happen / go wrong. Like - Lowering the buy now, after someone asks for a discount, then someone else hits the buy now. (This is the most common problem, then you get person "A" complaining in another listing that you sold "their" item to someone else .... ) You also get the - "Can you lower the price?" '...
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Hi there Mark I hate Aramex, they are less than pond scum as far as I am concerned. How long has been? If you are sick of waiting, and worried about your customer, you could just take the parcel to the Aramex depot yourself and drop it off. Up to, but if you look at the time you have invested in this so far, just taking it yourself might be a good way to cut your losses, you would also have the pleasure of throwing your toys out of the cot when you got there. (Just don't go so far as to get yourself trespassed).
Simon
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If you left them a feedback, you can access the wording for the old auction through that feature. I would warn you against using the exact description, you have used it in the mean time, so you will need to update any condition issue. But also ethically - to copy and paste would be plagiarism, seller work very hard at their content creation, if you did a straight copy and paste of someoneles work you may cause offense with the original creator, certainly use it for inspiration, but I wouldn't do a direct copy.
Simon
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I get very frustrated with this system. My current bugbear is Daggers, for the life of me I don't even know why you guys have a section for daggers, when we are seemingly not allowed to list them... I have had a few discussions in the past with the trust and safety team, but the interpretations of what the rules are, seems to change with each staff member, and also each year (as staff move on, and new ones come aboard). What seems to be happening at the moment, is around double edged blades, so all the Fairbain Sykes are getting pulled down, because they have a double edge, now they used t...
Simon
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A few options Pal (I hate it when people troll, so been down this road a few times sadly). A) You could just ignore it and not answer, (It will show at the end of the auction however) B) Answer it - either with a dot (like this .) which will clear it - or if you can think of some witty answer that belittles them and makes them look stoopid then do it, just put them onto your blacklist first, so you end the conversation and have the last word. (This can be the most satisfying way of dealing with it!) C) Reach out to live chat - Like S has suggested. To be fair, this is a proper good option. ...
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This has annoyed me in the past too, If there is a Ladies Retro category there should also be a mens! We like to rock vintage fashion too!
Simon
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S, Cool I did a CW this morning - worded it slightly differently from yours but same general gist. I also requested that they contact them, and warn them off such behavior in the future. Here is the categories I put it under. Category = Just this listing Why do you want to report this ? = Another Trade Me Policy is being breached What exactly is in breach? = A bidder is artificially bumping up the price What is the bidders user name? ************
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