Warning all trademe users.

**Fart** · 9th June 2005, 17:21

I ve got over 130+ positive feedbacks and only 1- negative from a psycho bitch.

Sometimes I can buy stuff that I cant find in the shops.

**Racey Rider** · 9th June 2005, 19:08

Nearly 200 good trades here.

only 1 bad trade.

Some guy in helensville still owes me $41 for a item I paid for and he never delivered!!!!! (TT250 forks.)
Anyone want to find out where he lives for me??
Cause one day I'm gunna be up there,, and Simon, I'm coming to knock on your door and get it my hard earned money BACK!!!!

**Zed** · 9th June 2005, 19:32

Originally Posted by inlinefour

...I was advised by TM admin to leave negative feedback, which I did (generally saying "another piece of junk purchased that does not match auction description") and usually recieving nasty FB in return with several untruths thrown into it for good measure.

Well if you dish out that sort of negative feedback you're just asking for trouble IMHO. Personally I don't give out negative feedback on TM because you just risk your own reputation as a trustworthy trader, it's not worth it.

Originally Posted by inlinefour

Now I could live with the Fb thing, I had about 28, with 5 neg FBs. However, I recieved a email at the beginning of the week, stating that I had what was considered "consideral excessive negative feedback" and without an explaination, the disabled my membership.

There you go, the wording you have used in your negative feedback is obviously unacceptable.
Would you be able to copy and paste the negative feedback here that you gave in those 5 cases? Would be good for a laugh.

Originally Posted by inlinefour

KBers, consider yourselves warned, don't fall into the trap that I did and be carefull when buying stuff off TM as my experience has been buying expensive pieces of crap...

I've been trading on TM for a few years now and have only been stung once ($50) out of 35 trades. I have no negative feedback against my account thankfully. I enjoy the site and know many others who do too. Sorry you had a bad run dude but such is life! :eyepoke:

**inlinefour** · 9th June 2005, 19:45

Every day is a goodie if you can learn something new, even if its a shyter like this...

**riffer** · 9th June 2005, 21:16

I think the trademe experience definitely depends on who you deal with.

I've been on trademe since November 2001, and have 140 feedbacks from individual members (all positive out of 162 in total).

I don't trade with people who have negative feedback, and I always look at what people say about them.

However, I tend to buy motorcycle and computer parts and my wife buys kids clothes. I deal with reputable sellers and we have found that almost all sellers of baby and children's clothing are honest people.

I have never left bad feedback and I haven't really had anything worth giving it for.

Don't believe me - look here.

**El Dopa** · 9th June 2005, 21:16

My one trademe experience (so far) is much the same as your negative experiences - 'goods not as described'. Clothes that weren't the advertised size, basically.

I think it's a decent way to get cheap stuff, but I'll not be buying anything of any worth from it unless I can:

1) afford to write the money off in the worst case scenario

2) Go and pick the stuff up (i.e. inspect the goods) before I hand over the cash.

**Suney** · 9th June 2005, 23:09

My friend is the worst trademe user ever, if he finds a better bargain at a store or if he decides he doesn't want to buy the item anymore after he had won the auction or press buy now, he'll make up lame ass excuses and hold of writing emails for a week or so.

**Gremlin** · 10th June 2005, 00:32

The trick is to research the seller first. If they have negative feedback, check the trader who submitted it. If they have heaps, then obviously the odds are its gonna be their fault.

I know every trader has to start somewhere, but when buying from the 100% and gazillion trade traders, I reckon its as good as walking into a shop. In fact, some of them are shops anyway.

48 trades, 34 individual, one total wanker who ripped off my brother (ripped off several) and gave me neg feedback once I had. Soon after I noticed he had been disabled, sent an email to TM explaining the situation, and they deleted the feedback.

But their PR person (if he hasn't committed suicide) should be shot tho... Just wait until a proper competitor starts up...

**ManDownUnder** · 10th June 2005, 08:46

Originally Posted by Racey Rider

Nearly 200 good trades here.

only 1 bad trade.

Some guy in helensville still owes me $41 for a item I paid for and he never delivered!!!!! (TT250 forks.)
Anyone want to find out where he lives for me??
Cause one day I'm gunna be up there,, and Simon, I'm coming to knock on your door and get it my hard earned money BACK!!!!

No worries - same thing happened to me... I reported it to the cops (with some glee I might add). some kid advertised a Hard Disk, I bought and paid for it, and never got it.

I managed to get his contact details and passed them, and all associated documentation, over to the cops. They took a while (let's face it - they have other things to do too... and not enough staff to go round), and now I'll be seeing this kid in court in the next month or so.

Quite an adventure really..

Don't get mad - get even... it's much more fun, and possibly a healthier outlook on life

MDU

**Eurodave** · 10th June 2005, 08:49

Two words to bear in mind: "CAVEAT EMPTOR"!!!!!!!!

**Sniper** · 10th June 2005, 08:59

I have had a good run with trade me except when I moved to CHCH they disabled my membership and told me it was because I moved too often?

**inlinefour** · 10th June 2005, 09:18

Originally Posted by Sniper

I have had a good run with trade me except when I moved to CHCH they disabled my membership and told me it was because I moved too often?

How much of a bunch of toss pots they are who run the site. Personally I found amusing how the manipulated the terms and conditions several times, but in fact contradicted themselves on several occasions

**placidfemme** · 10th June 2005, 09:31

I've had all good experiences with TradeMe. There was a stage where I thought I'd been ripped off by 3 different people who I had brought stuff from.... payed for the goods... and they never arrived...

Found out a month later that the goods had been sent but some little shit up the road was stealing our mail (along with nearly everyone elses mail on our street). NZ Post finally figured it out when they had about 16 people complain about missing mail... The kid was only about 12...

**marty** · 10th June 2005, 13:38

it's simple honda. don't use trademe. go somewhere else. stop your whingeing. plenty of us have bought and sold 1000's of $ worth of stuff on there, and haven't had any problems. i've sold 2 x $30000 cars, a $20000 caravan, bought the TL, my boat, my dog, laptops, etc etc, and i think i've been dicked out of a total of $5. do your research before hitting the buy now and you're fine. you wouldn't buy anything out of the Loot/T & E without researching it first, and if you did, you'd expect to get ripped off.