Tradme bike selling hates

[Bonez]

ummm,....a K3 should be a 1972 model?
And the "exhaust" is hideous !!!

Cut it off at the collector then adding a nice after market Dunstall replica sould tidy that up. Speedo and tachos are different colours, indicators appear to be late 70s Suzuki items
- http://www.suzukicycles.org/GS-series/GS750.shtml , certainly not that era Honda. The usual head gasket leak as well looking at the middle rh pic.

[DEATH_INC.]

The farkin well under reserve starting thing....what a waste of bloody time, everyones. Not all, but why start at $500 when your reserve is $5000 (or sim), you're not even gonna consider a bid this low......you must have an idea what you will take for it.
and the keyword thing too....

[XTC]

If you are trying to sell your dirtbike do yourself a favour and wash the f^&%ing dirt off it first..... At least then people might think you actually maintained it!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...n-54247470.htm

Looks far from mint like that.....

[Wired1]

Yes I hate the dickheads who list a starting price way lower than the reserve - actually I hate auctions that don't start at the reserve - I just won't bother bidding until it exceeds the reserve. And yes I hate the tossers who don't state wether or not it has a WOF and reg - it makes a shit load of difference to the price even if they tell you it will "fly through" yeah right.

My pet peeve is the wankers who just don't get what an auction is all about and want to test drive the bike/car after they have won the auction. This has happened to me twice and both times I have let them anyway knowing that the vehicles were fine - but if you bid and win then you have bought it! simple as that. If you want to do a compression check then do it before the end of the auction not once you have fucken won it.

The other thing that pisses me off as an over forty year old is the dorks who can't spell or who use text language (txt lngwg for the grammatically challenged prats out there). They should have someone on the Tradme staff to check and correct spelling.

[Karma]

The other thing that pisses me off as an over forty year old is the dorks who can't spell or who use text language (txt lngwg for the grammatically challenged prats out there). They should have someone on the Tradme staff to check and correct spelling.

Yeh that gets me too...

Is Hitcher looking for another job?

[gav]

Oh, and the other thing, some one asks what the reserve is, and they reply that its against Trade Me rules etc, bollocks, have a read of the rules sometime, its nothing of the sort. Don't know why they think they can't tell, generally they have an unrealistic value of what they think the item is worth and get quite upset when you tell them so.
And the Feedback too, its agreat idea, but its too open for abuse, people seem to wait until you post feedback before they post. If you post a negative, they post negative in retaliation. I'm waiting for a part now that I bought and paid for two weeks ago and still havent received, I emailed him after a week and he apoligised for not sending, now hes emailed me that he sent it and its been sent back to him, and he will resend. He has 100% positive feedback, do I spoil his good record. I was going to give him good feedback but with a comment about slow service, but what would you do?

[neats]

My worst are the sellers who list new new bikes for thousands less than retail than refuse to answr you questions. It would be a great deal if you could convince me it wasn't 1) stolen 2) wreacked or 3) stolen

[justsomeguy]

Yeh.. this is the worst I reckon.

Can't see the point of starting bidding below the reserve.

Whenever I sell anything on trademe I always start the bidding at the lowest I'm prepared to take for it... no fucking around.

It's about marketing your ad. If you start low - such as $1 reserve you get a lot of bids. The more bids you get the higher in a search your ad will place when someone does a search on the key words you use.

Meaning more people/buyers see your add.

Anyone with half a brain can write a paragraph containing all the key words instead of simply cutting and pasting.

[adifferentname]

my pet hates.

people who bitxch about trademe

buld your own fukn website

[scracha]

What's wrong with it?

Set the start low and your reserve where you want it, then people can bid as much as they want, if it doesn't meet your reserve then you at least get an idea of what people are willing to pay.

After bidding 15 times and not reaching reserve you get p!ssed off. I've missed out on a few trades that I would have actually purchased had the seller started at reserve (or close to).

If you're not sure what to sell it at then at least set the reserve to the minimum you'll take. If you want as much money as possible then set it a bit higher...you can always reduce it if it doesn't sell.

Starting with a stupidly low reserve price does NOT "generate interest" in an auction.

[scracha]

my pet hates.

people who bitxch about trademe

buld your own fukn website

I've built a few:-) I would build an auction site but

It's all about marketing

. Ebay, QXL (is this now defunct?) and Yahoo auctions are all miles better but for some reason never took off in New Zealand compared to the rest of the world.
There's three simple things Trademe could do to fix their site :-
1) Have a boolean search that works (e.g. I can type "FZR -cbr -400 -zxr" in Ebay)
2) Have a flag you can tick to only search for auctions that have met reserve (you can bet that if they did this then a lot more peeps would start the bidding at reserve).
3) Charge a 5c listing fee. That would deter all the idiots who list the same things every week at completely unrealistic prices (I don't think turner's lets you do this!)

[inlinefour]

I've been biarching about turdme for awhile now, but it would appear that nothings going to change. I've been stung by someone selling shit, then just expecting me to go through with the trade because it was "a legal binding" whateverthefeck. I told him to keep the shit, then was redfaced, just to have him later grease for me to remove his red face...
I've had the trader who sent me the L t-shirt, instead of a XL and then told me its my problem, then shaft me up the arse by giving me a red face for the trouble. Basically there are turdme rules, but they mean sweet F all.
I've brought several bikes now off turdme and I usually can tell when a trader is a getrichquickmerchant, afulloshitmerchant, or aidontknowafeckingthingmerchant. The biggest thing with spending alot of $$$ is getting to inspect before handing over your cash. Most sellers are quite reasonable, if I come accross one who is not, I tend to walk, even if it means a red face.
Now there are turdme laws and then there is NZ laws. Sadly it would appear that they don't allways match. However if the shit hit the fan, I know which law I would be backing. Oh and to show how much of a load of bollocks turdme's rules/laws are. Its against turdme's rules to put keywords onto an auction. However every wanker is doing it. Gone are the days of searching for something specific as I usually have to wade through shyte first to find its not even there.
Quite simply put, turdme is bollocks, anyone who says otherwise just is short a few lessions on the actual reality of the site and many of the people doing their dodgey dealings there. If your going to use it, protect yaself. Legal binding auction? So many ways around that and all their rules that its more likely to sink than the Titanic!

[Wired1]

Next time you are bored, have a count up of how many mini choppers are in the "classic & vintage" motorbike category - man I hate that.

[pzkpfw]

Agree with all previous pet peeve posts.

The one I have to add is an auction where the item is clearly going to sell for a fair bit (as indicated by the "buy now" or just common sense).

Then a bunch of people (not auto-bidding) start bidding $1, $2, $3, $4 ...

Get on with it!

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In bike terms: the auction that really pissed me off was the arse selling a GSXR250 that'd had a 400 engine put in it. Then advertising it as legal to ride on a learners license.

Several people tried to point out to the guy that "getting away with it" is not the same as "legal". But he basically ignored them; and continued to answer all the "can I really?" questions with "yes".

I don't care what he did himself; but some naive newbie might have unknowingly bought themselves legal and insurance problems; and gotten themselves in over their heads.

(Though I suppose some will think that's tough for them).

Cheers,

[Dooly]

I've brought 3 bikes off TM, and fortunately I guess, the sellers had 100% ratings. I've looked at some other things where the seller has had a few reds, and I read the comments. Its quite interesting what some folk say when they give people red faces.
Lots of trades not going thru too.
I was quite interested in a tractor off one guy who had about 30 red faces and the same blue out of about 500 sales.
His reply to the red faces were to tell the people to get fucked or call them names.
I decided not to buy the tractor, or I should say, not bid.

I often wonder if sellers register other names and bid on their own auction to up the price.

People who put their bike up for sale and describe it in detail by just saying 'goes well', and thats it

I also notice that out of all the bikes for sale, there are a huge percentage, in fact probably over half who never get a response or bid the whole time the auction is running.
Obviously the price or starting is to high, or people only want a bargain, which is natural.
The last bike I brought last week, for the missus, a dirt bike was listed for over 2 weeks, had untold questions and a resonably high start opening bid. I waited till auction time, no one bid, I popped the only bid and it closed, under the reserve, but had left a question saying if you want to ring me lets talk.
He did, we talked, I brought it for under the start even tho a guy in his town came around and offered the same price, because I amde the effort to bid he waited a few days until I came up and sold it to me.
Was impressed with that.