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Trade Me – Who are we?
You might be surprised to learn that Trade Me’s been around for 15 years now. In that time, we’ve grown from 2 members to 20 members to millions of members – it has been an amazing journey. Likewise, our staff has grown from a small room of like-minded folk to a team of over 350 in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. We’re all helping Trade Me do what it is good at – connecting people online to do a deal in a way that is trusted, great value, and pro-consumer.
Along with the good sorts at Stem Creative, we’ve put together a short ‘behind the scenes’ video about the people that make Trade Me tick. Look out for a very dapper appearance by Trade Me founder (and current director) Sam Morgan. We hope you can find 362 seconds of your day to watch it. Oh, and if you’re interested in joining our team, please check out our Careers page.
We’ve revised our Privacy policy
We wanted to let you know that we’ve made some changes to our Privacy policy that come into effect today. Most of the changes are to spruce up the language and make it a bit more readable.
However, there is also an important change that relates to the advertisements you see when you visit Trade Me. This change means that we will allow “remarketing” advertising from some advertisers and advertising agencies – previously this had only been done by us.
Remarketing is pretty common around the web. In our case, it will let our advertisers use cookies to reach people who have previously visited Trade Me, and show them relevant ads across the web. More...
New digs for Trade Me HQ - and yes, we're hiring!
Over the past few weeks the Trade Me team in Wellington has been moving into a new office. It's nice and new, as well as being informal but serious like us, and we thought you might like to see some pics of it in action.
It’s great having everyone back together in one place – previously we’d had teams in four disparate locations in Wellington.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work, and we reckon providing our staff with an environment that lines up with the way we tick is important. For the record there are three slides, a caravan (yes, it was bought on Trade Me), a lawnmower, 6 coffee machines and 268 great people spread across three floors. More...
Brand new in Fashion
We’ve just added the much-anticipated brand selector to the sidebar in the Clothing & Fashion category, so you can search by your favourite fashion brands.
There are hundreds of brands to choose from, and you can select and search for one or multiple brands at the same time.
You can now hone in on that favourite item with laser-like precision by using all the attributes that are important to you, including colour, size, style, brand, price and keyword. More...
Category change: Can you smell something?
The 'Category Change' team has been busy again, this time adding a heap of new fragrance categories to help you keep smelling your best.
We’ve added 27 new categories across both men’s and women’s fragrances, with many more popular brands now available.
Check out the spreadsheet for more sweet-smelling details on what we've done.