Scheduled maintenance
Trade Me will be unavailable from approximately 6:00 am to 6:45 am on Wednesday the 22nd of February for scheduled maintenance and upgrades.
All auctions closing between 6:00 am and 7:00 am will be extended by ninety minutes.
We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Message Board changes
We noticed that most discussion about new features were in the ‘Trade Me General’ message board. So, we have merged ‘Discuss New Features’ into ‘Trade Me General’. All existing threads have been moved.
Also, we have renamed ‘Gardening’ to ‘Gardening & DIY’
Email problems
Over the past day some members have received poorly formatted emails from Trade Me. This problem has now been resolved.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
9:05 am: Bad link errors
We had a technical issue overnight which caused a small proportion of our members to get "Bad link – 404" errors on parts of the site.
The problem has now been fixed. We apologise for any inconvenience.
New pricing for vehicle listings
From midnight Wednesday, 15th Feb, the price of listing a vehicle on Trade Me Motors will increase from $19.95 to $24.95. You can continue to relist for free, so you only pay once until your vehicle sells. No commissions or success fees apply when your vehicle sells.
The number of photos available for vehicle listings has increased from three to five.
This is the first price increase since the launch of Trade Me Motors in 2003. Trade Me Motors attracted over 870,000 unique visitors in January and now has more than 33,000 cars listed for sale from car dealers and private sales. More...