High-volume Sellers

Written by Trade Me staff at 9:42am, Wed 19 Nov 2003

Trade Me is introducing a new fee for "high-volume" sellers.

This fee is designed to prevent sellers from listing hundreds of non-selling items and dominating a category.

A high-volume seller must successfully sell at least 15% of the items that they list, or will be subject to a listing fee of 25c per listing.

A seller is considered a high-volume seller if 100 (or more) of the seller's auctions have closed in the previous week.

High-volume sellers can improve their sell through rate and easily avoid this fee by:

  • not listing multiple auctions for the same item

  • not constantly re-listing items which don't sell

  • lowering reserve prices
  • You can check your own sell-through rate on your Weekly Summary page