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Thread ID: 52991 2005-01-04 15:44:00 Should overseas trader be able to list items on sale at trademe? Ninjabear (2948) PC World Chat
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310642 2005-01-04 15:44:00 Trademe has announced that overseas trader cannot list items on trademe for sale.I think that they shouldn't have made this banned.I think that if they made it so that overseas trader must be address verified that would be good.

A majority of overseas trader like to use trademe like me and i find ebay alot confusing to use.Trademe says this is to prevent fraud etc but I believe that a majority of overseas trader are genuine.

They should ban the countries that are usually causing scam like nigeria example.I see that most of the nigerian scan comes from united states.
Why should people who live in Hong Kong or say united kingdom take the ban also when clearly its not our fault?

What do you think people?Trademe should find alternative system of helping overseas traders and sellers not ban something just because something comes up
Ninjabear (2948)
310643 2005-01-04 17:02:00 What do you think people?Trademe should find alternative system of helping overseas traders and sellers not ban something just because something comes up[/QUOTE]

This has come about for several reasons,

1 SCAMME do not want to spend the money to identify independently the overseas Sellers.

2 SCAMME do not want to bear the cost of supplying data to Customs and IRD about these Sellers, and their activity's.

3 SCAMME are bowing to pressure from the authorities to do something positive about the epedemic of SCAMS on SCAMME.

4 SCAMME is a very profit driven orginiseation. This was the most expedient metheod of getting the Authorities off their backs, and they can window dress it as a positive security move by them, to protect local buyers.

This Stop Gap measure by SCAMME will alliviate the SCAM level on the site for a short time.

Nothing really will change untill SCAMME deal with the basic flaws in their security and member enroolment program.

Charging $10-00 to as a question and become authenticated is nothing but a SCAM as paying $10-00 does not prove anything about you.

SCAMME is the only major local site to charge in this way.

As a result of this policy change the number of buyer SCAMS has Skyrocketed.

In the Scam Site Rules the goods are supposed to be in "possesion" of the Seller as with many things on SCAMME this did not come out as intended.

If this area of the rules is read several times it is clear that the SCAM SITE meant the rules to say "In possesion of the seller IN NEW ZEALAND".

As with so many things on SCAMME this is not what it says at all.

Which has lead to much confusion. Sadly allthough all forgien sellers apart from Australians have been banned, this unclear area regarding goods not on New Zealand soil remains, another SCAMME dissaster.

The reguirement that all Australian sellers have New Zealand bank accounts is also farceicall.

The ANZ will have good business with this in their "Tranz Tasman Accounts" Legally locall in both nations at once.

D.
drb1 (4492)
310644 2005-01-04 20:29:00 its a new zealand auction site and it should stay ours, its pretty safe actually. and if overseas sellers/buyers want to use it they can use their eBay. Prescott (11)
310645 2005-01-05 05:26:00 Without trying to be critical of a fellow Southlander,auctions need buyers & sellers to make them work!The more the merrier.

The "feedback"system on TM soon sorts out the baddies!(whether local or off-shore)

There are a lot of traders from all over the world,particularly buyers on TradeMe!

Cheers,kiwitas,(-:
kiwitas (6582)
310646 2006-01-15 21:16:00 its a new zealand auction site and it should stay ours, its pretty safe actually. and if overseas sellers/buyers want to use it they can use their eBay.

Trademe.co.nz is like a little car boot sale compared to ebay.co.uk or even ebay.com.au

all the trading methods and auctioneering is so backward
cognoscenti06 (6780)
310647 2006-01-15 21:19:00 It works for us, who gives a toss how ebay uk does anything? Metla (12)
310648 2006-01-15 21:27:00 I think it is ok for an overseas trader, as long as they make it very clear that they are non NZ so that you know postage times are going to be a bit longer. mejobloggs (264)
310649 2006-01-15 22:10:00 Trademe.co.nz is like a little car boot sale compared to ebay.co.uk or even ebay.com.au

all the trading methods and auctioneering is so backwardThat's about right coming from a pom. Ebay is horse manure compared to TradeMe. It's too typical of USA excessive commercialism.
Greg (193)
310650 2006-01-15 22:14:00 I think it is ok for an overseas trader, as long as they make it very clear that they are non NZ so that you know postage times are going to be a bit longer.

No, it is against the TradeMe rules. You are allowed to be an Aussie though.
gibler (49)
310651 2006-01-15 22:37:00 Do we really have to have crap about TradeMe all the time?

. trademe . co . nz/structure/messageboard/default . asp" target="_blank">www . trademe . co . nz
. trademe . co . nz/structure/helpdocs/crm_choose_subject . asp" target="_blank">www . trademe . co . nz

Go and vent spleen there . At least someone might care, and we won't have to put up with pointless rants about things you can't don anything about .

Let alone having to see how many times "drb1" can fit SCAMME in a post .
ninja (1671)
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