Archive for April 2017 announcements

Payment delays on Anzac day

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 10:30am, Mon 24 Apr 2017

With Anzac day happening tomorrow, there will be a delay in processing payments to your Trade Me account made by phone or internet banking.

Payments made after 10:00 pm tonight will not be processed until Thursday 27 April.

If you top up by credit or debit card, your payment will be processed instantly. More...

Upcoming tweaks to our privacy policy

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 5:00pm, Wed 19 Apr 2017

We wanted to let you know we’re making some changes to our privacy policy on 3 May 2017.

Trade Me Jobs Profiles

In December last year we announced a change we’d made to our privacy policy to enable us to begin work on Trade Me Jobs Profiles. Profiles will enable job hunters to display relevant skills and experience to recruiters and prospective employers. We’ll create your Profile by using your saved CVs, contact details and jobs you’ve viewed or saved, or applied for through Trade Me. Profiles will initially be available to a small group of job hunters, and will be progressively be rolled out over the coming months. More...

Payment delays over Easter weekend

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 2:30pm, Wed 12 Apr 2017

Due to the upcoming Easter holiday, there’ll be a delay in processing payments to your Trade Me account made by phone or internet banking.

If you pay by these methods, payments made after 10:00 pm on Thursday 13 April will not be processed until Wednesday 19 April.

If you top up by credit or debit card, your payment will be processed instantly. More...

Seller update: some important changes

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 9:30am, Mon 10 Apr 2017

Today we’re announcing some important news for our selling community.

As of 1 May 2017:

  1. To qualify for the Top Seller programme you must be marked as in trade.
  2. We’ve added more benefits to being a Top Seller, but removed some discounts too.
  3. Our success fee cap will be raised from $149 to $249 – but not for in-trade sellers.
  4. We want to remind you of the ways we support our sellers.
For more information, head over to the update on our Seller Blog.

Visit the Seller Blog now

Scheduled maintenance

Written by Alan Featherston in Scheduled maintenance at 5:00pm, Wed 5 Apr 2017

Trade Me will be unavailable on Thursday, 6 April between 12:30 am and 3:30 am for scheduled maintenance.
All auctions that are due to close between 12:30 am and 4:30 am will be extended by four hours.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.