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Site outage this morning
Just a quick update to let you know about an issue we experienced at Trade Me this morning. There was a power outage in Wellington and Trade Me was affected, along with thousands of other homes and buildings across the city. Several other major websites were also knocked out by the power outage.
The site was down between 8:41am and 10:05am. Around 14,000 auctions were set to close, so we have extended all of these by 4 hours.
We're sorry for the hassle this causes anyone. More...
Reminder about free gallery listings
Last Thursday (4 November) we held a Free Gallery Day to celebrate a big milestone for Trade Me Jobs.
A lot of the freebie Gallery listings will be coming up for relist tomorrow (11 November). For anyone who took advantage of that offer, this is just a friendly reminder that when any items come up for relist, you will need to pay to keep the Gallery feature on. If you want Gallery removed from your listings, please remove the tick from the Gallery box on the Extras page.
We don’t want anyone to get surprised when they see this fee charged.
Trade Me bends back at eDay 2010
The Trade Me team broke a sweat at Wellington's eDay collection at Westpac Stadium on Saturday. eDay helps households, schools, community groups and businesses get rid of old computers and mobile phones in a responsible, environmentally friendly way.
In terms of what was brought in to the 53 drop-off locations around New Zealand, the eDay organisers have reported that 2010 was off the hook. An estimated 77,000 items were collected from 17,787 cars, translating into 877 tonnes of old computer equipment and mobile phones.
Of course, although this one-day collection is enough to fill a whopping 110 shipping containers, it's still a mere drop in the bucket given the Government estimates Kiwis lob 80,000 tonnes of electronic waste into landfills each year. More...
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Trade Me Jobs chuffed to hit #1 in October
Four years, two months and 24 days after it launched, Trade Me Jobs finished October as New Zealand’s #1 employment site, claiming the top spot after attracting 860,922 domestic unique browsers.
Our recently appointed Head of Trade Me Jobs, Pete Ashby, was chuffed to have hit number one as his team has been on a mission to attract more Kiwis than any other job site since Trade Me Jobs officially passed Seek on domestic page impressions back in July 2009.
Here are four quick things that the Trade Me Jobs team have identified as being crucial to the site's success since launching in August 2006:
- fantastic support from the industry as we built the site from scratch;
- a simple, easy-to-use site that reflects the way Kiwis look for jobs;
- a commitment to non-metropolitan areas that had not been served well by others in the market; and
- making job advertising more affordable. More...