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Daily deals coming soon
Soon, we’re going to launch daily deals on our homepage. Daily deals are discounted products offered for a fixed price within a 24 hour period. Stock will be limited for each product, and buyers may purchase by credit or debit card. This is a new section that won’t affect other categories. We're looking for suppliers who wish to market their products to over 2.5 million registered members. It’s open to everyone, but there are some conditions:
- Your product must have mass appeal and be offered at a substantially discounted price;
- You must have an excellent feedback record;
- We're looking for large volumes of new products, so minimum stock levels may apply.
Making sure the bright ideas work
Trade Me CEO Jon Macdonald recently penned this short piece in The Dom Post down here in the capital, as part of The Bright Ideas Challenge. If you've got a bright idea, you should get it in by 25 June.
It might have started out as a bright idea in Sam Morgan’s head, but one lesson from the Trade Me story is that there’s no shortage of bright ideas. The key is to bring the idea kicking and screaming into reality quickly, and then back it up with great operations and decision-making.
To help choose the best bright ideas and implement them well, we have a set of principles. There are seven in total, but four in particular are often front and centre when ideas are being batted around the pool table at Trade Me HQ. More...
Top 10: Most searched for dogs
This week's cheeky little rundown of stats is around one of Trade Me's most popular "items": dogs and puppies. There are 7600 dog-related listings up on the site as of today.
Having a quick squizz at some numbers, the top 10 most searched for breeds of dog in the past month on Trade Me are here:
1. Pig dog
2. Labrador
3. Chihuahua
4. German shepherd
5. Border collie
6. Bulldog
7. Husky
8. Rottweiler
9. Jack Russell
10. Poodle More...
Changes to Gallery pricing
The cost to promote a listing with Gallery has changed for some categories.
For around half our categories, the price has dropped from 55c to 35c. For the other half of our categories, the price has risen from 55c to 75c. Gallery for Books and CDs remains at 25c, while Mobile phone accessories have dropped from 55c to 25c.
Bulk listing tool coming soon
Within the next couple of months, sellers will be able to use a free listing tool to easily manage bulk inventory. Our new product listing tool will allow
sellers to:
• import and update listings in bulk
• assign a custom SKU/product code value
• set a product to relist and/or automatically send a fixed price offer
• specify a stock level to manage the automatic relist of items
• set an end time for automatic relists
We’ll give you an update closer to the time. Watch this space!