Payments over Easter
The banks shut up shop over Easter, which means some payments to Trade Me accounts will be processed a little later than usual.
If you pay via phone or internet banking after 10pm on Thursday 21 April, the payment will not be processed to your account until the morning of Wednesday 27 April.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused, but that is how the banks roll for public holidays. We hope you all have a fantastic Easter break.
Travelbug wants to reward Kiwi office stars
Just a quick note to let know you about a competition our Travelbug cousins are running to acknowledge office stars around the country.
Administrative Professionals Day (formerly known as Secretary's Day) is on Wednesday 27 April, and Travelbug is giving away $500 Travelbug vouchers to three office stars – those people around the workplace that keep the office humming but maybe don’t get thanked enough.
Also up for grabs are three $500 Travelbug vouchers for the people who nominate the winning office stars. More...
Scheduled Maintenance
Trade Me is going to be unavailable between 2am and 5am tomorrow morning for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. All auctions that are due to close between 2am and 6am will be extended by four hours.
We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.Pink Shirt Kev: Bullying is not OK
You might be wondering why our Trade Me kiwi, Kevin, is all decked out in a pink polo shirt today. The reason is because April 14 is Pink Shirt Day in New Zealand.
Pink Shirt Day is an anti-bullying initiative kicked off in Canada when a kid in Nova Scotia came to school wearing a pink shirt and was teased and bullied for it. To counteract it, his classmates came in the next day wearing pink shirts to stand up against them. They bought 50 pink shirts and stood in the school foyer handing them out to classmates.
Pink Shirt Day is now established in other countries around the world to raise awareness and help stop bullying in schools and elsewhere. In New Zealand, it is being supported by several organisations including the Mental Health Foundation. More...
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Scam warning and safe buying advice
It was Scam Awareness Week last week and we thought it would be timely to remind members about one scam attempt we’ve seen recently, and offer some tips to keep you safe.
These scammers know their game and have many tactics to try and get your hard-earned cash into their pockets. In the last couple of weeks, a new scam has reared its ugly head in New Zealand. It seeks to lure victims by combining the old age medium of newspaper advertising, with the new age technology of online phone calls via services like Skype (technically known as “voice over internet protocol” or VOIP).
It starts with a classified advertisement for a cheap vehicle popping up in one of the local newspapers around the country. Alongside a free-to-register email address (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo) is a local New Zealand phone number purchased by a scammer that actually connects overseas, not locally. They are doing this through VOIP technology and number portability, which is brilliant if you want cheap calls to your friend in London, but not so great when you think you're calling someone in NZ to buy a car. More...