I followed this thread with interest as I also received a lot of emails from very upset clients about the stress this caused them.

I think that the significant issue for book sellers is the lack of site announcement by TradeMe about the categories – sellers get their books shuffled around by TradeMe, using quick relist they may not know for months their books are sitting in some irrelevant category.

It also somewhat odd that automated emails are sent to sellers re the changes on the site in response to their complaints, and when a seller (post 103 of the thread) rang up and spoke to the person they had received an email from, the person knew of no such email or category changes.

If I understand correctly, book sellers were consulted (and buyers) but it seems some of the bigger sellers with a wide variety of books across categories such as betterbooks were not consulted.

I knwo too well that you can’t please all of the people all of the time but it seemed to add a particular stress on sellers at an already stressful time of the year – changing categories right up to two days before Christmas day, no announcements nothing.

Serenity Now, Insanity Later! Serendipidy Sometime!

Happy New Year Michael

Tracey MacKenzie