Stay safe from “malvertising”
Last month we gave you a heads up about some scammer activity targeting Trade Me Motors users in particular, and set out some advice to keep yourself safe online.
In the last couple of days we’ve seen another little piece of evilness target Trade Me. It’s a combination of malicious software and advertising (“malvertising”). This involves cybercriminals using an online advertisement to distribute malware.
We have processes in place to prevent ads like this appearing but unfortunately this week one snuck through. We’re sorry that it happened. The ad purported to be for Lonely Planet and was on the site from Thursday morning until Friday lunchtime. More...
Rental market sees supply down and rent up
The national supply of properties for rent continues to decrease, but the decline has slowed according to an analysis of Trade Me Property’s listings over the past 3 months.
Across New Zealand, the supply of rentals for the quarter ending 30 September was down 12% when compared to the same period last year. In the June quarter this drop was 18%.
With supply continuing to contract, demand also shot up, with 12% more messages from prospective tenants being sent than in the same quarter in 2009. Waitakere led the way, with demand soaring by almost 50% in the quarter. More...
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Trade Me’s API unleashed (at last!)
A first edition of the Trade Me API has been released into the great wide open today, and that news should be music to the ears of anyone out there who is keen to build cool applications for Trade Me members to use.
API is short for “application programming interface” and, in a nutshell, it’s a language and message format that will let a program or application that someone has built talk to information sitting in Trade Me’s database.
We know it’s been a long time coming, but there’s been a considerable amount of in-house philosophical debate about the pros and cons of making the API public. It’s also been a big job. We know it is not perfect and regard it as very much a work-in-progress – it will change and get better over time. More...
GST heads north on Friday
Unless you've had your head buried in the sand somewhere, you'll know that GST is set to increase from 12.5% to 15% on Friday, 1 October.
The good news is that our GST-inclusive fees won't be going up with the GST rise. They will not change.
We will be tweaking the receipts we issue to members to reflect the GST change (and to ensure GST-registered sellers can claim GST at 15%). More...
Reminder: Daylight savings on Sunday morning
Daylight savings kicks in at 2am this Sunday morning, and you'll need to put your clock forward one hour.
So nobody gets inconvenienced by the time change, all auctions due to close between 2am and 4am on Sunday morning (about 1000) will be extended by two hours.
Daylight saving will be with us right through until Sunday 3 April 2011. More...