Trademe Buy Now.... has something changed??

**TonyB** · 4th August 2007, 19:26

Well, this has got me stumped, and rather than pay $1.99 a minute to talk to a Trademe tech I thought it'd be far easier to ask the great pool of knowledge that is KB.

I have been trading on Trademe for a wee while now. I ALWAYS put a buy now on my auctions, and have never had a problem. Today I noticed that my auctions are not showing a Buy Now. I've got a number in the Buy Now box, I can't find any other boxes to tick, yet my auctions aren't showing a Buy Now. I've read the help section on Buy Now's- no help there...

What have I missed? Bling for the first helpful answer.

**riffer** · 4th August 2007, 19:29

Could be someone's placed a bit on your auction. BuyNow disappears once a bid's placed.

**MotoGirl** · 4th August 2007, 19:34

Originally Posted by riffer

Could be someone's placed a bit on your auction. BuyNow disappears once a bid's placed.

I think this happens once the top bid gets within 15 percent of the reserve price (or similar).

**JimO** · 4th August 2007, 19:34

buy now dissapears once reserve is reached

**TonyB** · 4th August 2007, 19:39

Yep, thats the first thing I looked for.
No bids have been placed.

**MotoGirl** · 4th August 2007, 19:40

Originally Posted by jimjim

buy now dissapears once reserve is reached

Right you are! TradeMe's help confirms this:

Originally Posted by TradeMe

A Buy Now price can only be added before any bids have been placed on an auction.

Authenticated buyers can purchase the item immediately at the Buy Now price by clicking the 'Buy Now' button, but must do so before the reserve price is met. The 'Buy Now' option is only available until the reserve price is met.

**TonyB** · 4th August 2007, 19:42

Got it sussed. For some bizzarre reason, you can no longer see the Buy Now button on you own auction!! I logged out and back in as my wife and Behold! There it was. Thats just bloody daft! Hopefully its a temporary hiccup

**riffer** · 4th August 2007, 19:53

Excellent. Give yourself some bling.

**Filterer** · 4th August 2007, 20:15

Originally Posted by Motogirl

Originally Posted by Trademe

Authenticated buyers can purchase the item immediately at the Buy Now price by clicking the 'Buy Now' button, but must do so before the reserve price is met. The 'Buy Now' option is only available until the reserve price is met.

Originally Posted by TonyB

Got it sussed. For some bizzarre reason, you can no longer see the Buy Now button on you own auction!! I logged out and back in as my wife and Behold! There it was. Thats just bloody daft! Hopefully its a temporary hiccup

Perhaps you are not an authenticated person and your wife is?

**TonyB** · 4th August 2007, 20:45

Originally Posted by Filterer

Perhaps you are not an authenticated person and your wife is?

Na, I'm authenticated alright. I'm not sure whats going on- I definitely used to be able to see the Buy Now button on my own auctions

**Zukin** · 4th August 2007, 21:28

Your are right it has been like this for some time, but if you click on the link in the Left hand column, under the Selling section, click on Items I am selling and it comes up there

It wont so on individual auctions

Cheers

**TonyB** · 4th August 2007, 22:15

Ah, I see. I only noticed it was gone when someone asked me how much I wanted for something- I was muttering away about him asking me how much something would cost when there is a Buy now price clearly displayed... then I relised it wasn't there! As it turns out, it WAS there, and the guy is indeed a twat.

**The Pastor** · 5th August 2007, 12:37

why have differnt accounts for your wife and yourself? if you share accounts you will get double the feedback rating, ph33r mine of 60 somthing.

**kro** · 5th August 2007, 13:12

Trademe have bugs in their system at the moment, I experienced a wierd occurence 2 days ago, when i deleted all the items out of my "items I lost" tab, and when you go back to "my trademe", it says they are still in there, but when go click on the lost items link, the page is empty.

I emailed them, and they said they are working on it.