Professional online traders may have to offer refunds

[gammaguy]

I Used to buy and sell on Trade Me all the time,my feedback was up over 2000.

I offered a full money back guarantee on everything I sold except electrical parts.

Over the years i was trading there i can count the number of problems I had one one hand.

Its like anything,if you are an honest trader the new rules should give you nothing to worry about.

Its about time TM became more professional ,like Ebay,and it should make it a better place to go to for buyers.They are still a long way behind Ebay though,their fees are way too high for the rubbish service they provide sellers(they wanted me to pay nearly $500 per month for a trade me store,I have one on Ebay that reaches billions of buyers worldwide and it costs me less than $20),and that was why I closed my account.

Trade Me needs to wake up

[Gremlin]

Therein lies the problem. When you're starting out TM is probably the best option as advertising is very expensive and short of physically driving around and calling on everyone, (which I do as well), not much else is as effective until your website is better set up and on the first page of Google.

I got my first email enquiry today from Google Adwords which seems to be good value, esp as they gave me a sizeable credit to start with.

Often going direct to the guys gets a discount as they do put an extra margin on the goods to cover the fees. Just a bit of reading their profile then googling normally gets what you need

[gammaguy]

Often going direct to the guys gets a discount as they do put an extra margin on the goods to cover the fees. Just a bit of reading their profile then googling normally gets what you need

exactly

so Trade Me are making the buyers pay more,then conveniently letting the sellers take the blame for covering the extra fees they charge

I now sell on Sella,where they charge no fees,and I can give my buyers a better deal because of it

[p.dath]

I got my first email enquiry today from Google Adwords which seems to be good value, esp as they gave me a sizeable credit to start with.

+1. I'm a big fan of Google AdWords. Works great for us. All you have to do is create a good short advert, and choose the right keywords ...

[Edbear]

exactly

so Trade Me are making the buyers pay more,then conveniently letting the sellers take the blame for covering the extra fees they charge

I now sell on Sella,where they charge no fees,and I can give my buyers a better deal because of it

I've got a Sella account, and am going to start there as well. Results wise, I'm not sure how it rates by comparison, how are you doing with it?

+1. I'm a big fan of Google AdWords. Works great for us. All you have to do is create a good short advert, and choose the right keywords ...

Which they offer to help you with as well.

[Edbear]

Often going direct to the guys gets a discount as they do put an extra margin on the goods to cover the fees. Just a bit of reading their profile then googling normally gets what you need

I often do that myself.

[HenryDorsetCase]

It's buying goods over $2000 to sell. I sell a lot of stuff on TM, but I never buy something with the intention of selling it. It says it will be worded to protect those who just sell stuff that they owned and used themselves first.

Ah cheers. I havent read the policy or anything