No Success Fees for Cars and Houses

Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Thu 18 Apr 2002

The fee structure for listings in the 'Cars, Boats & Motorbikes' and 'Houses and Sections for Sale' categories are going to change from a percentage based success fee,
to a fixed success fee regardless of the final bid price. For a limited time, there will be NO SUCCESS FEES for listings for cars, bikes, moterbikes and houses. An announcement will be made when the fixed fees are introduced later in the year.

Change to authentication rules

Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Wed 9 Jan 2002

As Trade Me continues to grow, we need to be continually introducing ways to deal with fraud, piracy and other types of unwanted behaviour.
In future weeks we will be introducing new features to improve security on the site and keep the quality of behaviour at its current level. With this in mind the following changes have been introduced:



Unauthenticated members now have limited use of some of the features on the site. These include:


  • The question and answer feature is for authenticated members only.

  • The auction complaints feature is for authenticated members only.

  • Unauthenticated members may place bids on only 3 auctions at a time

  • Unauthenticated members may not place bids of over $100.

  • Unauthenticated members may not run more than 4 auctions at a time.

  • Registration now requires gender, birthdate, and land line phone number

  • Authentication now requires additional information birthdate, gender, land line phone number, drivers licence or bank account number.

  • A multiple star rating system has been introduced. Members with over 10 positive feedbacks get 2 stars, over 50 = 3 stars, over 100 = 4 stars, over 200 = 5 stars, over 500 = a glowing star.

Several small changes

Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Fri 24 May 2002

  • New pages for editing auctions and classifieds were released, which make it easier to change the listing details if you have made a mistake.


  • Due to continual abuse from some members, the message board has been restricted to authenticated members only.


  • Sellers can now see a weekly summary of their activity. Access the new page summary page from the 'My Trade Me' tab.

  • Several small changes

    Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Fri 10 May 2002

  • Place a classified and run an auction have merged - so you can now place a listing from a single page,
    and upload a photo during the place a classified process.


  • The 'view seller's listings' page shows the number of bids, and can be sorted by title, dates, price and bids. We will soon be making all listing pages behave in this way.


  • The reserve price is no longer displayed on expired auctions.


  • Stores can run 'permanent listings'. These listings are only available from the store pages, and do not expire.
    To purchase these items, you can place a bid or use buy now in the same manner as a standard auction.

  • Change to bid withdrawal rules

    Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Thu 18 Apr 2002

    The buyer may no longer request to have their bid removed from Trade Me.
    This feature was needed in the early days of the site when people could join up and place million dollar bids on items with no intention of paying.
    However, as new buyers are no longer able to do this without authenticating, the feature is no longer needed.

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