Trademe to host foreign retail sellers

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http://www.techday.co.nz/netguide/ne...tailers/22730/


Trademe`s rush for cash.Trademe to allow foreign seller to sell direct,on trademe.
Oh and put up fee`s

Ps title should say Trademe to host Foreign retail sellers .

[Usarka]

They have to recover their $millions that they donated to the morgtards.

[rustic101]

I really don't see the problem. I use e-bay (alot) and have saved myself thousands of dollars.

Out of hundreds of purchases I've only had one go tits up but with e-bay you get buyer protection. The retail market here in NZ needs a huge boot in the arse and they need to understand that people are now smarter about shopping and are no longer prepared to spend more than an items worth.

Trademe are really only keeping up with the times and they see a good opportunity.

[Blackflagged]

True had to Happen.
Good for buyers.
But Nz retailers are at many disadvantages,it will have noticeable effects.

[tigertim20]

I cant see the point, people who want to buy online from overseas (bei t because they struck out on trademe, or just dont use it) go to ebay anyway as it is.
and the last thing i wanna see is TM raising its fees etc - theyve fucking done that enough already

[mossy1200]

Half the new goods on trade me are just middle wo/men buying online in lots of a hundred then selling at twice price.They often dont refund if faulty goods or no goods arrive anyway.Maybe we get the same crap cheaper.

[mossy1200]

I cant see the point, people who want to buy online from overseas (bei t because they struck out on trademe, or just dont use it) go to ebay anyway as it is.
and the last thing i wanna see is TM raising its fees etc - theyve fucking done that enough already

I buy used stuff on trademe or cheapish items etc plus some stuff like tents etc.Online new motorcycle bling comes from ebay.

[Blackflagged]

I think there going more for Bigger Overseas Online Retailers.
Direct marketing,and could be the start of more changes than first meets the eye.Different to ebay.

[bsasuper]

It will be be just like ebay, ie all sorts of cheap crap from china, except without buyer protection.

[DrunkenMistake]

Its gonna push the fee's up but its gonna drive alot of prices down,
Take for example, some time ago you used to be able to buy 'X' off ebay @ $10 a unit, and people were selling 'X' at $400 NZ on Trademe making a $390 profit (well excluding the fee's)
So if a TM seller is selling product 'X' @ $400 and the actual supplier sells on trademe @$12.50 (to compensate fee's and what have you) Then shit will go belly up for the NZ based seller,
Not saying this is good or bad, as a consumer (if I didnt already use ebay more than TM) I would take it as a positive, but as a seller trying to make a living off of their sales then its not good at all,
But a local (NZ) second hand market, which IS trademe will always flourish.

[phill-k]

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

[Harry the Barstard]

pfffft, who cares?

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

[Brian d marge]

I sell shit , buy it.... its worth its weight in gold


Stephen

[scumdog]

I cant see the point, people who want to buy online from overseas (bei t because they struck out on trademe, or just dont use it) go to ebay anyway as it is.
and the last thing i wanna see is TM raising its fees etc - theyve fucking done that enough already

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.

[tigertim20]

Its gonna push the fee's up but its gonna drive alot of prices down,
Take for example, some time ago you used to be able to buy 'X' off ebay @ $10 a unit, and people were selling 'X' at $400 NZ on Trademe making a $390 profit (well excluding the fee's)
So if a TM seller is selling product 'X' @ $400 and the actual supplier sells on trademe @$12.50 (to compensate fee's and what have you) Then shit will go belly up for the NZ based seller,
Not saying this is good or bad, as a consumer (if I didnt already use ebay more than TM) I would take it as a positive, but as a seller trying to make a living off of their sales then its not good at all,
But a local (NZ) second hand market, which IS trademe will always flourish.

cant really agree with your logic there - if people werent happy with the $400 price on trademe, theyd have looked around, found it on ebay, and bought it for the $10 - problem solved.
I would feel better about the idea if companies were just setting up NZ based distributors that held stock, so that you could buy off trademe, and avoid the wait you deal with on international purchases - but thats not the case, so I dont see what benefit the purchaser has of buying through trademe rather than ebay.

I dont think it will have a good result for small NZ retailers if the idea takes off - companies will miss out their middle-man NZ stockists, and sales will fall/jobs be lost.

I refuse to buy off trademe unless its unavoidable - their fee increases and changes over the last few years are simply not to my taste