Scheduled maintenance
Trade Me will be unavailable on Saturday, 20 May between 2:00 am and 5:00 am for scheduled maintenance.
All auctions that are due to close between 2:00 am and 5:00 am will be extended by four hours.
We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Update: Some changes to Trade Me Motors
As we announced last week, today we’ve made some changes to Trade Me Motors.
Q&A added to classified listings
Previously on a Motors classified listing, buyers only had the ability to email the seller. We've now added the ‘question and answer’ function to classified listings too.*
This means potential buyers can use the Q&A function on Motors classified listings as well as auctions, and other buyers will be able to see what questions have been asked and answered. More...
Some changes to Trade Me Motors
Next week we’re making some changes to Trade Me Motors.
Adding Q&A to classified listings
Currently on a Motors classified listing, buyers only have the ability to email the seller. We're making a change to add the ‘question & answer’ function to classified listings too.* More...
Some privacy policy changes come into effect today
Last month, we gave you a heads up about some privacy policy changes, that are coming into effect today.
Trade Me Jobs Profiles
In December last year we announced a change we’d made to our privacy policy to enable us to begin work on Trade Me Jobs Profiles. Job Profiles will enable job hunters to display relevant skills and experience to recruiters and prospective employers. We’ll create your Job Profile by using your saved CVs, contact details and jobs you’ve viewed or saved, or applied for through Trade Me. Job Profiles will initially be available to a small group of job hunters, and will be progressively be rolled out over the coming months. More...
Seller update: changes come into effect today
Today we've made some changes for our selling community.
From today (1 May):
- To qualify for the Top Seller programme you must be marked as in trade.
- We’ve added more benefits to being a Top Seller, but removed some discounts too.
- Our success fee cap has been raised from $149 to $249 – but not for in-trade sellers.
- We want to remind you of the ways we support our sellers.