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Our new natural disaster & civil emergency policy
Today we’re introducing a new policy which will restrict the price of items onsite, that are related to a disaster or emergency. These new measures aim to protect our users from exploitative pricing during the Covid-19 outbreak, and future events.
This means that listings which attempt to take an excessive profit during a disaster or emergency, are not permitted. Listings may not feature excessive Buy Now or reserve prices, and may only use normal retail pricing that was in place prior to the event.
If you do come across anything on Trade Me that doesn’t look right, please use the Community Watch button at the bottom of every listing and one of our team will take a look.
Retirement of some property promotional extras
On 17 March 2020, we’re retiring the following promotional extras from property listings in the residential for sale and to rent, commercial, retirement villages and rural categories for casual sellers.
Extras being retired:
• Feature
• Highlight
• Bold More...
Update re: message board changes
As we announced on 12 February, we’re making some changes to our message boards. These were set to go live on 25 February, but due to some complications behind the scenes, this will now happen on 3 March.
Duplicates policy change for sellers
From 1 March, we’ll be making a change to our listing policy for all sellers. This change will mean that sellers may only have one listing per identical item.
Having duplicate listings on our site isn’t a great experience for buyers, as it makes it harder to find what they want. We think this will improve their experience, and hopefully mean more sales for our sellers.
Changes to our message board
From 25 February, we’ll be making a change to our message board, and the following topics and threads will be closed:
• General discussion
• Environment
• Kaikoura recovery
• Genealogy
• Movies & TV
• Music
• New age and spirituality
• Opinion & politics
• Recipes
The message board was originally introduced as a way for members to help each other use the site. Over the years things have moved away from that, and we want to bring it back. More...