Trademe to host foreign retail sellers

[Usarka]

pfffft, who cares?

We live in a global market anyway...well except for Nanna and Grandad.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...nline-shopping

My conscience.

[Harry the Barstard]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...nline-shopping

My conscience.

I dont think that Trade Me going international will give the sweat shop kinda thing a shot of steroids. It may however make prices a lil more even compared to other countries.

e.g.1 When I look ata ventura packrack frame for my bike selling for $350, I think to myself...... that is just a couple of bent lenghts of tubing. Someone is having a turkish if they think that $350 is a fair and resonable price. How much did that cost to make?

e.g.2 Yoshi tri oval for my bike in the US $295USD.... NZ $895.

[Gremlin]

Trademe already has horrible fees, and as soon as a seller gets big enough, they often try to leave TradeMe. Big sellers will often gripe about the "support" from Trademe. Trademe already has a track record on support for buyers and sellers and I hardly think the sellers being somewhere else in the world would make issues any easier to resolve.

For those of us internet savvy, we've been buying from overseas for some time, as plenty of goods are simply not sold here, that you might want. Being on Trademe only means there's more cost.

[ducatilover]

I've done more eBay purchases this year alone than I have over the last 8 or so years on TardMe.

Says it all.

[ducatilover]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...nline-shopping

My conscience.

Cry me a river, I'll happily do that job, better than sitting on my arse and building bikes.

[SS90]

And an attitude of TM that pisses me off is the way they handle the fire-arms section.

Want to know if a rifle is available in left-hand model?
Ya better be able to supply your fire-arms licence number.

Ya like a little trinket made from EMPTY rifle shells and want to know its weight or similar for shipping?
Again, ya better have a fire-arms licence number handy to quote.

uzzerwize they won't tell you jack-shit.

I would rather this inconveniance than the opposite side of the coin......

[sugilite:Me]

I forecast this as being the beginning of the end for TradeMe, their only point of deference was they were NZ only, nice to see am Aussie group get it up the arse, paid way over the top and will soon be 700million dollars lighter - good fkn laugh that

I 100% agree with this post. Once kiwis start leaving trademe in droves when it becomes just another auction site, as against our very own kiwi auction site, then I suspect e-bay will seriously look at opening a .co.nz branch. Previously E-bay would never of attempted this as trademe is so crazy strong here. With this pending dumb arse change from trade me, ebay will be sharpening up the knives for sure.

[Bassmatt]

They will have some sort of agreement with the sellers that they do not make their goods available to NZ through ebay.

[Brett]

If trademe choose to up fee's again, they damn well better have a plan to add more value, otherwise all they are doing is making it easier and easier for competition to enter the market place. The only thing that they have going for them is critical mass. Everyone goes there, so sites like Seller.co.nz (which isn't as user friendly IMO) retain a pathetic amount of market share. 4m people isn't too hard to reach, a good, well thought out marketing plan in the current market should be able to drum up some competition to trademe, as long as the website is user friendly and functional (and the fee's aren't horrendous).

[Zedder]

If trademe choose to up fee's again, they damn well better have a plan to add more value, otherwise all they are doing is making it easier and easier for competition to enter the market place. The only thing that they have going for them is critical mass. Everyone goes there, so sites like Seller.co.nz (which isn't as user friendly IMO) retain a pathetic amount of market share. 4m people isn't too hard to reach, a good, well thought out marketing plan in the current market should be able to drum up some competition to trademe, as long as the website is user friendly and functional (and the fee's aren't horrendous).

Have you given feedback to Seller Brett? It all helps.

[Ocean1]

They will have some sort of agreement with the sellers that they do not make their goods available to NZ through ebay.

They will. The TM expansion offshore is almost certainly driven by the very offshore competition getting too hard to handle.

They'll make such deals because monopolies work really really well in NZ. And they’ll do it in spite of the fact that such deals are supposedly prohibited by the Commerce Commission under the fair trading act.

I’ll go a very long way to find alternative sources for anything where I find an entity that has too much control over any market I live or work in. Anything else is simply giving your money away in the long run.

[steve_t]

I've already bought a few things of trademe only to find they were drop shipped from overseas. Then looking at the label on the package, I found the NZ seller just buys off eBay and gets the good shipped directly to me. I guess that'll teach me for not looking hard enough through the eBay listings...

[pritch]

I believe in buying locally - within reason. Too often now though, "locally" just means the nearest branch of an Australian owned chain.

At work access to Trademe is blocked, ebay is not.

When I wanted stuff for the Ducati: camera mount for the radar detector, C spanner to adjust the chain, carbon hugger to protect the Ohlins, etc, it all came from ebay. Variously manufactured in the UK, Canada, or Germany. None of it from China.

[mossy1200]

I believe in buying locally - within reason. Too often now though, "locally" just means the nearest branch of an Australian owned chain.

At work access to Trademe is blocked, ebay is not.

When I wanted stuff for the Ducati: camera mount for the radar detector, C spanner to adjust the chain, carbon hugger to protect the Ohlins, etc, it all came from ebay. Variously manufactured in the UK, Canada, or Germany. None of it from China.

I cant even get parts for my bike on trademe theres nobody selling them.If there was it would be a middle man receiving carbon fibre and doubling the price anyways at the moment.Maybe things like carbon fibre and bike bling bits will reach us when they change.

EG 89.95 usd plus freight 142 nzd to the door

What would it cost to buy them here?

[Brett]

Have you given feedback to Seller Brett? It all helps.

No, but only because I am working on a business plan of my own potentially in this area, but with a different focus/competitive advantage. Sella.co.nz is predominantly owned by APN media (Australia Provincial News Papers) and APN related companies...not interested in helping make them wealthier if I can work out how to commercialise my ideas.