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  #3150201 19-Oct-2023 16:00
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richms: It's a cheap way to get your brand in front of people, but they seem to have put a stop to the selling of catalogs on there to avoid putting the whole amount of a sale thru it. Also idiot customers get angry when they buy now at a price they are happy with on trademe and then find you sell it for less on your own website and expect to pay the lower amount after finding that.

 

 

I would expect a lower price on their own site as there are no fees to TM involved but in my example both sites have same prices.




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  #3150212 19-Oct-2023 16:53
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I think a lot of their business is now in property, esp with them buying the homes website. NZs economy is largely a housing market, so it is potentially a big growth business for them.


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  #3150330 19-Oct-2023 22:15
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mattwnz: ... NZs economy is largely a housing market, ...
Listen to Bernard Hickey much? 😁

 

 

 

 

 

mattwnz: ... so it is potentially a big growth business for them.
Didn't know that homes.co.nz was bought by TM until I got the notification about updated T&C's 😖

 

 





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  #3151192 23-Oct-2023 07:19
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I was hacked off when they removed the ability to search old listings so you could see what someone else had paid for an item!


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  #3151201 23-Oct-2023 08:24
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@burtz do a search for anything. When it completes, click the dark blue refine pop up menu button and select search expired, then search for what you actually want.


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  #3158170 11-Nov-2023 09:37
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https://archive.ph/Y8KgK >> a lot of people in this article have a similar view. Why no 2FA? Trademe won't answer.


 
 
 
 

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  #3158270 11-Nov-2023 13:23
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burtz:

I was hacked off when they removed the ability to search old listings so you could see what someone else had paid for an item!



I just keep those items am curious about ticked in my watchlist and when sold they turn up in the Lost folder and you can see the price paid there.

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  #3158276 11-Nov-2023 13:42
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@quickymart:

 

Many have tried and failed, some in a really big way - remember Wheedle about 10 years ago? Backed with huge amounts of money and barely failed to make a dent.

 

 

Fixed that for you.





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  #3158424 11-Nov-2023 21:39
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Certainly TM has deteriorated.

The problem is that what we really need - eBay - won’t ever bother with such a tiny market.





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  #3158872 13-Nov-2023 10:06
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I was looking at a couple of things and realised I couldn’t log in to put them on my watchlist.

I contacted TM and they told me that because I was overseas their system had locked me out of my account.

Good job my bank doesn’t do that…!!





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  #3158976 13-Nov-2023 12:19
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Geektastic: Certainly TM has deteriorated.

The problem is that what we really need - eBay - won’t ever bother with such a tiny market.

 

I seem to recall eBay launched here at the turn of the century but hardly got any traction at all. Today ebay.co.nz just redirects to ebay.com.


 
 
 

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  #3159304 13-Nov-2023 21:01
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quickymart:

Geektastic: Certainly TM has deteriorated.

The problem is that what we really need - eBay - won’t ever bother with such a tiny market.


I seem to recall eBay launched here at the turn of the century but hardly got any traction at all. Today ebay.co.nz just redirects to ebay.com.



I wonder if that would still be the case today given the well documented increasing issues and costs with Trade Me, combined with the fact that it’s no longer a NZ company which always seemed to be the fact used to excuse its shortcomings in the past.





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  #3159305 13-Nov-2023 21:04
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Geektastic: I was looking at a couple of things and realised I couldn’t log in to put them on my watchlist.

I contacted TM and they told me that because I was overseas their system had locked me out of my account.

Good job my bank doesn’t do that…!!


“I'm sorry but you can only use Trade Me if you are in NZ or AU, you won't be able to while overseas.”

Apparently I can’t even access my account (for example to collect money from Ping etc or place items on my watchlist) from outside the country.

Ridiculous and devoid of any logic.

I understand - vaguely - why you can’t trade from overseas but to not even be able to administrate your account etc whilst travelling seems bizarre. What do people who trade on it for their living do for income when away?





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  #3159306 13-Nov-2023 21:05
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Probably another great idea from their "fraud and security" team. Just a pity their "great ideas" don't extend into things like 2FA, for example.


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  #3159307 13-Nov-2023 21:22
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I worked for a company overseas that was also not keen on MFA until it got some media attention.

 

It mostly came down to cost, be it on more user assistance when people get locked out, or a large twilio bill.

 

There was also the worry that people would leave the service once they got locked out of MFA and couldn't get back in easily. 

 

 

 

TradeMe will have their own reasons for not implementing MFA, it being "best for the customer" is probably not the real one though.


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