New advanced search operators
You can now use more search operators to perform an advanced search. Here’s a quick reference guide:
Use quotes " " to find an exact phrase, e.g. "Bob the Builder"
Use an asterisk * to search a partial word, e.g. Tea cup* matches cup, cups and cupboard More...
Changes to mobile phones category
We have added categories for new networks Telecom XT and 2degrees.
Check out mobile phones
Father's Day gift finder
Father's Day is on Sunday 6 September. Want to buy your dad something special, but need some inspiration?
Check out our gift finder
Changes to the Top Seller programme
Pay Now transactions now incur a fee of 0.95% for Top Sellers. This is due to the increasing use of Pay Now and the bank fees we incur on these transactions.
For all other sellers, Pay Now transactions remain at 1.95% of the total purchase price.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
12:45am: Trade Me site back
And we’re back, what a night. We had some issues this evening that affected our database clustering software at one of our data centres. This required us to implement our disaster recovery procedures to bring the site back up.
The site was unavailable from 9:05pm to 11:50pm Monday.
All auctions that were due to close between 9:05pm Monday and 5:00am Tuesday have been extended by 24 hours. More...