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Thread ID: 66728 2006-03-05 21:03:00 TradeMe sold Tukapa (62) PC World Chat
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435740 2006-03-06 04:38:00 I must not be much of a patriot then, if someone offered me 700 million (even if they were aussie) I'd be asking where to sign... DangerousDave (697)
435741 2006-03-06 05:12:00 i would be the same for sure lol
i just wished it stayed in nz so yeah
csinclair83 (200)
435742 2006-03-06 05:12:00 Good on him for getting $700mil for it. Pity another NZ company sold off shore and run by the ozzys..
Wasn't David Kirk the winning all black captain of the 1987 world cup?
plod (107)
435743 2006-03-06 05:39:00 Yep he was the all black captian csinclair83 (200)
435744 2006-03-06 05:42:00 Yep he was the all black captian
which would make fairfax an ozzie company run by a kiwi :rolleyes:
plod (107)
435745 2006-03-06 06:03:00 is David Kirk the CEO?
I thought he was just the NZ representive of Fairfax...considering theres alotta fairfax companys in nz...so they have a nz representive, that basically acts like NZ's CEO for Fairfax...
if i'm wrong...and he is in fact the ceo then bloody good job :D he surely has brains if he went after trademe....
csinclair83 (200)
435746 2006-03-06 09:31:00 He is the chief excutive officer of the sydey based company(so google says) plod (107)
435747 2006-03-06 20:00:00 oh well good on him...700million, nice, 32% of that..is still 224million, surely set up for life on that anyway...just live off the interest... :D I heard on Breakfast this morning that if he just puts the money in the bank, he'll still earn something like $42000 a day in interest :D although I don't know if that was on the $230m or on the $700m

Mike.
Mike (15)
435748 2006-03-06 20:32:00 Now, the question is: where will TradeMe go from here?

I'm picking Fairfax is looking to make it direct competition with E-bay (long term)
Short term, make it easier for aussies to use TradeMe, and increase the client base substantially which will then of course increase profits.

Just speculation though...
Myth (110)
435749 2006-03-06 20:45:00 The latest articles seem to note that TradeMe will still be run by the NZ team including Sam... I hope they keep it that way. Mary (6534)
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