Trademe-Important changes to success fees

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richms

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#2788409 2-Oct-2021 20:38

When you get to the last page of search results, they change from numbering them 1-6 to 0-5. Again, WHAAAAAT THE FAAAAAAA...... QCwho?

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#2788858 4-Oct-2021 09:02

mkissin:

I really wish that TradeMe would allow me, as a buyer, to blacklist sellers so that I never see their listings. That would make my TradeMe experience about 10 billion times better.

The only categories I really view have been rendered totally useless by dropshippers that are "based in New Zealand".

The overseas based "NZ Sellers" & dropshippers have ruined the whole experience for me.
The dropshippers tend to flood the categories with unrelated items , making it too hard to find what you want .
And you have to look very closely to see where goods are being shipped from .

So now, I allways use the show used items only option. Thats the only way to filter out the dropshippers .
Anything new, I now usually buy from somewhere else . Im buying far less on trademe than I used to .

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#2788871 4-Oct-2021 09:18

There's plenty of dropshippers listing new goods as used though. Frequently do a search for a used item and pages of clearly new things from In Trade sellers appear.

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#2789065 4-Oct-2021 13:07

richms:

When you get to the last page of search results, they change from numbering them 1-6 to 0-5. Again, WHAAAAAT THE FAAAAAAA...... QCwho?

The "new" site (which has been "in development" for years, and it shows) has always struck me as being like some guy's side project proof of concept that a manager saw and said "yeah that's what we want" and the developer said "great, so let's assemble a team and get started on the work, should take us about 6 months to get to 90%" and the manager said "no no, THAT'S what we want, it looks done to me, just like put it online or whatever it is you do".

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#2789073 4-Oct-2021 13:27

My wife likes to sell the things she no longer wants in the house on TM.

However she now only lists it when they're offering free listing days. She says the success fees are enough for TM.

I can't see why they charge success fees. You've paid for the listing which covers their services. What do they do beyond providing the listing to justify a slice of the selling price on top?

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#2789107 4-Oct-2021 14:46

@geektastic there is no listing fee, just the commission charged at the end for general items. Property, vehicles and other classified type listings charge a flat rate to list. The free listing day means no success fee (commission) paid at the end.

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#2792514 9-Oct-2021 23:25

neb: The first time I hit that, searching for some electrical stuff and got dumped into TM Motors, I thought it was some glitch and tried it again. Same result. OK, let's start from the home page and try again. Same result the third time.

It looks like the problem is that Trademe just really, really, really wants to send you to TM Motors no matter what. I ran into this yesterday when I was looking up some paint-related terms and kept getting dumped into TM Motors, over and over again. Today I was looking up something which I eventually simplified to the word "box" and the first page of results for "Search all of Trademe" was... trucks, off TM Motors. So if you're searching for, say, a wooden box for storage on Trademe, you'll get given a page full of trucks as a result (from "box body" on a truck, because they really want to match you up to anything at all from TM Motors).

Hey Trademe idiots, we're going to a site called "Trademe" and not "Motortraders". Is anybody awake there?

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#2792608 10-Oct-2021 07:36

@neb, every time you search, you need to watch the category the results come back in, then step back up the hierarchical category structure one layer at a time through a menu system that is slow and clunky. I presume a key performance indicator at TradeMe is the number of page views they have, and this gives a four-fold increase for every search!

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