Archive for May 2019 announcements

Payment delays over Queen’s Birthday weekend

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 8:00am, Wed 29 May 2019

Due to the upcoming Queen’s Birthday 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 Friday 31 May will not be processed until Wednesday 5 June.

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

Golliwogs and jolly money boxes now banned

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 9:00am, Mon 13 May 2019

As we announced on 29 April 2019, today we are banning the sale of golliwogs and jolly money boxes.

Listing these items will no longer be allowed.
For the details of these changes, please see our updated Banned & restricted items list.

Changes to Trade Me Motors

Written by The Trade Me Motors team in Motors at 3:30pm, Fri 3 May 2019

As we announced earlier this week, today we made some changes to simplify the way you list and promote cars.

You may notice:

• a new listing process
different fees
• longer listing duration of 90 days (promotional features now also last for 90 days too)
• a new reduced listing fee if you need to continue your listing after 90 days. More...

Upcoming changes to Trade Me Motors

Written by The Trade Me Motors team in Motors at 9:00am, Wed 1 May 2019

We want to make it easier for you to sell with Trade Me Motors by simplifying the way you list and promote cars, including the removal of auction success and withdrawal fees.

Recently we’ve been A/B testing some changes with 50% of members, and from 3 May 2019 we’ll be releasing these changes to all members*. From this date, you may notice:

• a new listing process
• different fees
• longer listing duration of 90 days (promotional features now also last for 90 days too)
• a new reduced listing fee if you need to continue your listing after 90 days. More...