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Official Trade Me iPhone application out today
The first edition of Trade Me’s official iPhone application is out and about today. You can download it for free from Apple's App Store over here. We’ve released this app because we see this as an important platform to connect with, and something that will make Trade Me easier to use for a bunch of our members.
We know it has been a long time coming, but it's been a big job. We didn’t want to launch an app just because we could. We reckon building an app in itself is not particularly hard, but building a decent app certainly is. As well as all the QA work, beta testing, planning and coding, we've also been very keen to ensure the app feels like it is part of Trade Me.
It's great to have the iPhone app out hard on the heels of our API being released into the great wide open last month. It means we are starting to see a suite of applications interfacing with Trade Me and we think that’s a good thing. Of course, this is the first edition and it is not perfect. We'll be working hard to refine it for version 2 at some stage. More...
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Kiwi conquers auto-shopping on Trade Me
Want to buy the cheapest, most random stuff on Trade Me and have it delivered for free? One enterprising Kiwi has found a way to do just that.
Developer Paul Hunkin saw that we’d unleashed our API in September, freeing up our code for developers to dig in and have a play with building applications for members to use.
Inspired by a web comic strip, Paul set aside a couple of hours to write a script that automatically searches the site and bids on cheap, obscure items with Buy Now and free shipping (he’s recently updated it to also bid on items that are closing soon, to nab a bargain). More...
Summer's on the way: win a $3k Kiwi holiday
Our friends over at Travelbug and Holiday Houses are giving you the chance to win a $3,000 Kiwi holiday.
All you have to do is enter your details online and you could win accommodation of your choice, up to the value of $3,000. You can also get extra entries if you recommend friends and they enter too.
Site outage this morning
Just a quick update to let you know about an issue we experienced at Trade Me this morning. There was a power outage in Wellington and Trade Me was affected, along with thousands of other homes and buildings across the city. Several other major websites were also knocked out by the power outage.
The site was down between 8:41am and 10:05am. Around 14,000 auctions were set to close, so we have extended all of these by 4 hours.
We're sorry for the hassle this causes anyone. More...
Reminder about free gallery listings
Last Thursday (4 November) we held a Free Gallery Day to celebrate a big milestone for Trade Me Jobs.
A lot of the freebie Gallery listings will be coming up for relist tomorrow (11 November). For anyone who took advantage of that offer, this is just a friendly reminder that when any items come up for relist, you will need to pay to keep the Gallery feature on. If you want Gallery removed from your listings, please remove the tick from the Gallery box on the Extras page.
We don’t want anyone to get surprised when they see this fee charged.