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| Thread ID: 97769 | 2009-02-27 02:52:00 | Trademe success fees | forrest44 (754) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 751759 | 2009-02-27 02:52:00 | Anyone else sick of the fees you have to pay every time someone wins one of your auctions? I recently have sold around $200 worth of stuff, and have gone through about $20 in fees Sure, with Trademe you get the best market of buyers, but just because they have the monopoly doesn't mean they need to abuse it...? |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 751760 | 2009-02-27 03:31:00 | They can and do abuse it though. Sold a vehicle via auction last week, got far more than I would have as a trade in or if it was sittin on the side of the road. $78 total cost. That seems pretty decent to me. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 751761 | 2009-02-27 03:34:00 | Yeah they're a bit of a rip off, but what really gets me are people who try to inflate their postage costs to compensate for it. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 751762 | 2009-02-27 03:37:00 | Sure, with Trademe you get the best market of buyers, but just because they have the monopoly doesn't mean they need to abuse it...? Trademe don't have a monopoly. There are other auction sites that compete with them - it's just that you didn't use them. You chose to use Trademe, agreed to their terms and conditions, successfully sold your goods and paid the selling fee which you agreed to pay when you listed the goods. And now you're whinging. On a forum. I have no sympathy for you. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 751763 | 2009-02-27 03:45:00 | Next time list it in the newspaper, It will cost the same, Pretty much nobody will see the ad, If someone does want it you have to deal with them face to face and you can guarantee they be some jerk-off who will waste your time, take more then a polite interest in your premises,, and probably offer to swap something broken they own such as a lawnmower or bike if your lucky. | Metla (12) | ||
| 751764 | 2009-02-27 04:02:00 | Trademe don't have a monopoly. There are other auction sites that compete with them - it's just that you didn't use them. You chose to use Trademe, agreed to their terms and conditions, successfully sold your goods and paid the selling fee which you agreed to pay when you listed the goods. And now you're whinging. On a forum. I have no sympathy for you. Trademe may not have a monopoly but they are the biggest and you will get a bigger audience when you list something there. The other auction sites like Zillion and Webuy etc are mainly full of people trying to sell cheap chinese crap for high prices It's the chat forum! We can all whinge about whatever we like :p |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 751765 | 2009-02-27 04:09:00 | I agree, You can go though quite a bit of cash listing with galleries, and the odd success fee. I have an idea for a auction site with a difference. I just need ten people with 10K each ! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 751766 | 2009-02-27 04:10:00 | The other auction sites Zillion and Webuy etc are mainly full of people trying to sell cheap chinese crap for high prices Trademe has quite a few of those people as well ! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 751767 | 2009-02-27 04:21:00 | Anyone else sick of the fees you have to pay every time someone wins one of your auctions? Yep, just recently sold my motorcycle boots for $135 and i paid $18 in success fees.. Good thing mum covered it =) |
password (5384) | ||
| 751768 | 2009-02-27 04:31:00 | I should really start my own auction website shouldn't I, something clean and simple, geared towards helping people buy and sell and not making profit from advertising/success fees. Then if everyone on here begins to use it I suppose it would get a bit of momentum going and, well, who knows.... | forrest44 (754) | ||
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