Archive for February 2020 announcements

Update re: message board changes

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 4:30pm, Mon 24 Feb 2020

As we announced on 12 February, we’re making some changes to our message boards. These were set to go live on 25 February, but due to some complications behind the scenes, this will now happen on 3 March.

Scheduled maintenance

Written by The Trade Me team in Scheduled maintenance at 5:00pm, Tue 18 Feb 2020

Trade Me will be unavailable on Wednesday, 19 February between 2am and 5am for scheduled maintenance. All auctions that are due to close between 2am and 5:30am will be extended by four hours. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Duplicates policy change for sellers

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 2:30pm, Mon 17 Feb 2020

From 1 March, we’ll be making a change to our listing policy for all sellers. This change will mean that sellers may only have one listing per identical item.

Having duplicate listings on our site isn’t a great experience for buyers, as it makes it harder to find what they want. We think this will improve their experience, and hopefully mean more sales for our sellers.

Changes to our message board

Written by The Trade Me team in General at 9:30am, Wed 12 Feb 2020

From 25 February, we’ll be making a change to our message board, and the following topics and threads will be closed:

• General discussion
• Environment
• Kaikoura recovery
• Genealogy
• Movies & TV
• Music
• New age and spirituality
• Opinion & politics
• Recipes

The message board was originally introduced as a way for members to help each other use the site. Over the years things have moved away from that, and we want to bring it back.  More...

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