When did you join Trade Me?

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#406574 19-Nov-2010 08:55

It seems I joined in 3rd september 2000, member 377. It seems like Trademe has been around forever.

drajk

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#406584 19-Nov-2010 09:16

April 2000, 513 +ve feedbacks, 0 neutral, 0 negative.

Had one interesting purchase in which I sent someone a payment for a phone and didn't receive anything - noticed that at the same time the person had about 5 other auctions where others hadn't received goods - anyway wrote it all up formally and went to Police - they were excellent - contacted the local constable in the town where the person lived - constable gave me a call and said would visit the person - several days later rang me back and said that the item was now on the way! I was greatly impressed.

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#406613 19-Nov-2010 10:05

September 2002, member 128xxx.

1473 positive, 2 neutral, 0 negs.

Because of my number of trades I can no longer see my first ones, but I think trade #1 was for a Polaroid 600 camera.

1 neutral feedback was because the buyer clicked it off before reading the description - then was disappointed by something clearly mentioned, and drawn attention to in the description.

The other was because the guy thought I did not write awesome enough feedback for him, I gave him a positive and generic good feedback, so he slammed me with a neutral in return for not being grateful enough in my feedback. I might add he did nothing out of the ordinary to think he deserved this?

Have been "ripped off" plenty of times, i.e buying something new, sealed in packaging, and when it arrives its opened, dirty, and missing key components that are unable to be purchased separately, so in the bin it goes.

And once where I sent something before getting paid, something I very rarely do, and the guy didn't pay up. But after 4 weeks of nagging I finally got it out of him.

My TM user name was different when I signed up to what it is now. My first one was cruddy so I searched until I found a good one, then asked them to change it, which they did immediately with no hassles.

Then a year or 2 ago I asked them to change it, and they instead disabled my account and said TM user accounts are 1 per person for life, so they refused to change it.

Gave a lame excuse that its because people will not know who I am. My arguement is when looking at my feedback, I'm not a bad egg, so I'm not trying to avoid bad feedback, so changing my user name is only actually detrimental to me, not others.

Ebay allows user name changes once every 30 days, and one can very easily see a user name history, I don't know why TM cannot do this? After all at the blazing pace they disable people, there must be SO many good user names wasted through disabled memberships.

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#406617 19-Nov-2010 10:12

Since we are talking about some of the bad stories too, my negative feedback came from a person who clearly was a scam artist.

She bought something from us, and sent me an email asking if I'd accept payment over the next few weeks. I said "sorry, no", so next thing was an email from her telling me the deposit was made, including a clearly doctored screenshot of an Internet banking transaction and a request to send the item seeing she had paid me.

After three days of no money showing up in my account (surprise!) I asked her if she wanted to continue the transaction. She replied saying she had problems buy would pay a week later. Of course nothing showed up and the last email was telling me she had made the payment, etc - which obviously did not show up in my account again.

I then posted a negative feedback on her - hey she lied, tried to get the item without paying, etc - and she slapped a negative back on me saying "He is a grumpy man".

Of course Trade Me's comments after I contacted them was "you have to ask her to remove the bad feedback". As if it would happen.

So much for an effective feedback system...

xpd

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#406627 19-Nov-2010 10:24

Everyones had a bad run at some point on TM.... Ive had 2.
One was a iPaq , was listed as great condition working perfectly etc - when it arrived, the battery was DOA, no amount of charging helped. Requested refund, they told me to buy a new battery and pretty much sod off. Gave them a negative......

Other was me selling an alarm system, took the guy like two weeks to pay, then he moaned how long it was taking to complete the trade. When i did send it, noone ever answered the door so the courier kept leaving cards etc but never picked up. The guy finally signed for it but still complained I didnt send it on time etc and that he ahd video footage of when the courier arrived blah blah blah.... he pulled the same shite on a couple of other users a short time later. Hes now been disabled and his feedback on me removed.

Thats the one good thing TM have done lately, remove feedbacks for users that have been disabled - got rid of all (2) my negatives in one hit.

Gavin / xpd / FastRaccoon / Geek of Coastguard New Zealand

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#406722 19-Nov-2010 13:09

I think I have the record in this thread so far...

December 99 (as above don't recall if that's accurate or was assigned by T/Me later), member number 28X

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#406734 19-Nov-2010 13:40

August 2002 - My first transaction was also $5 credit. Got banned in 2004 since I had 2 accounts open (If my parents account counts as the 2nd one?) - Now just use my parents account, way easier.

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#406738 19-Nov-2010 13:58

February-2007
member=1962***

TBH I had thought I'd joined sooner than 2007, ho hum.

Granticini

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#407347 21-Nov-2010 17:27

December 2002
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Granticini

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#407351 21-Nov-2010 17:37

Looks like smorgan (Sam Morgan I assume) is the first member of TradeMe in their system.
Member # 17
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Profile.aspx?member=17

Joined December 1999

morgans, member 20 is still active.

sleepy

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#407353 21-Nov-2010 17:53

March 2000
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ten years has gone quick

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#407360 21-Nov-2010 18:24

member 49

Joined probably Mar-99 at a guess even though my profile shows Dec-99 (which is the earliest date)

Things were a lot different back then:

- No fees (initially)
- No pictures
- Email addresses were logins and not hidden
- You could run ads instead of auctions
- No feedback
- Some really dodgy stuff was sold on there (e.g. new release movies on vcd from asia, cigarettes)

Sam use to advertise Trademe through nz.wanted and nz.comp on Usenet and got some not so nice replies about spamming the newgroups.

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#407472 22-Nov-2010 00:24

So much for an effective feedback system...

Its annoying, but I've found that every user that has left me unjust feedback has ended up being disabled., And TradeMe WILL remove bad feedback from disabled accounts. I've had 3 removed that way.

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Damager

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#407537 22-Nov-2010 09:41

Joined in March 2003. Member # 196XXX.

My first purchase was a second hand ADSL modem in July 2003.

- Telstra HTC Touch Pro2 - Energy ROM WM6.5.5 20 Oct/Cyanogen Mod Froyo 2.2 - R.I.P
- AT&T Galaxy S Captivate 16GB on XT (now with brother)
- Samsung Galaxy S2 on XT- Runs ICS 4.0.3 Resurrection Remix 9.2
- Business Hours - Work In The Electricity Industry, After Hours - DJ/Turntablist - Will Scratch Vinyl For Free'
- What's next??? S3?

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#408071 23-Nov-2010 11:01

Joined Jan 2001 and first transaction was the $5 credit :)

I used a lot at the time to buy a lot of old components, build a PC from them and then sell as a whole machine. I think I had a lot of Windows licenses from somewhere to get rid of..

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