Comments on: Surviving The Recession Through Trade Me

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:03:29 +0000

Oh – I see that they have put it back. Just as they should.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:20:11 +0000

Why has TM taken off the photos from the auction page. Now it seems you only see the main photo and have to click on ‘see all the photo’s’ to see the photo enlarged AND any other photos. What a pain. I just requested the seller put up better photo and she already had put up three – what a waste of time for us both.

Regards

By: BookieMonster

BookieMonster — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:22:18 +0000

Hi Michael, nice article – consumer information was particularly interesting. And good on you for the information about offering mutiple items out – it has to be one of the biggest misapprehensions brought to the TM messageboards (“why isn’t the seller going through with the sale and offering it out instead”
Cheers

By: Sylvia Pledger

Sylvia Pledger — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:21:35 +0000

Thanks for the info i am a new be and i am still learning all the time, i have had some awesome trades off trademe, and some not so good ones, overall it has been great, i am still in the process of trying to get up the courage and become a seller not just a buyer, not quite got the hang of that concept as yet, but there is hope Many thanks to the traders for their paitence and understanding when us new ones stuff up. I have done that quite a bit over the year i have been with trade. Cheers Sylvia

By: James Judd

James Judd — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:31:56 +0000

Emma B made my first million at 29 from property so why would I be jealous ? Just not into being bull.hited too with the heater story, if you love BS in people passing something off as original be my guess

By: Jennyc

Jennyc — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:29:30 +0000

Thanks for the info on mmake a fixed offer on a successful auction, I plan to try this out it. I have enjoyed reading all the comments with some very interesting things to think about.

By: Michael Carney

Michael Carney — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:39:12 +0000

[This thread continues the response above , referring to Brigitte's comment about being offered a second bite at an item which someone else won].

A few categories don’t attract success fees (notably cars, houses and jobs) but most general items do — check here for full details: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Help/Topic.aspx?help_id=18

The general success fee structure is as follows:
* Up to $150: 6.9% of sale price (50c minimum)
* $150 – $1500: $10.35 + 4.5% of sale price over $150
* Over $1500: $71.10 + 1.9% of sale price over $1500 (max fee = $149)

If you sell two items through the same auction, you’ll still attract those fees for each item — but you’ll save on any the promotional costs (bold, featured & first in category costs; costs for a sub-headline; and cost of any extra photos). And then there’s the time cost of relisting …

Of course, there’s no guarantee that people will accept your offer, but the whole exercise only takes a couple of clicks, so it can certainly be worth the effort.

By: rose kalolo

rose kalolo — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:56:17 +0000

interesting, how does success fees work and for what my total over sale would include advertising, success fees and the cost of sell to think of when doing a price

By: Michael Carney

Michael Carney — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:49:46 +0000

I have to say I haven’t seen anybody raise this issue before (though I monitor some of the Message Boards from time to time, I don’t check through all categories).

If you think the lack of a suburb is costing you bidders, then my recommendation would be either to mention your location in your listing or (if space is at a premium there) add a note through the “Add a comment to your auction” feature at the bottom of your listing.

By: DavidC

DavidC — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:41:07 +0000

The thing that annoys me, and others , most about TrAde Me is that, in the South Island at least, we cant put suburbs on the listings.

Is this mentioned in your book?

It does put some buyers off., AND PRESUMABLY REDUCES BIDS.