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Site outage this morning
Just a quick update to let you know about an issue we experienced at Trade Me this morning. There was a power outage in Wellington and Trade Me was affected, along with thousands of other homes and buildings across the city. Several other major websites were also knocked out by the power outage.
The site was down between 8:41am and 10:05am. Around 14,000 auctions were set to close, so we have extended all of these by 4 hours.
We're sorry for the hassle this causes anyone. More...
Reminder about free gallery listings
Last Thursday (4 November) we held a Free Gallery Day to celebrate a big milestone for Trade Me Jobs.
A lot of the freebie Gallery listings will be coming up for relist tomorrow (11 November). For anyone who took advantage of that offer, this is just a friendly reminder that when any items come up for relist, you will need to pay to keep the Gallery feature on. If you want Gallery removed from your listings, please remove the tick from the Gallery box on the Extras page.
We don’t want anyone to get surprised when they see this fee charged.
Trade Me bends back at eDay 2010
The Trade Me team broke a sweat at Wellington's eDay collection at Westpac Stadium on Saturday. eDay helps households, schools, community groups and businesses get rid of old computers and mobile phones in a responsible, environmentally friendly way.
In terms of what was brought in to the 53 drop-off locations around New Zealand, the eDay organisers have reported that 2010 was off the hook. An estimated 77,000 items were collected from 17,787 cars, translating into 877 tonnes of old computer equipment and mobile phones.
Of course, although this one-day collection is enough to fill a whopping 110 shipping containers, it's still a mere drop in the bucket given the Government estimates Kiwis lob 80,000 tonnes of electronic waste into landfills each year. More...
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Payment delay for Labour Day
The banks shut up shop on Monday 25 October for Labour Day, which means some payments to Trade Me accounts will be processed a little later than usual.
If you pay via phone or internet banking after 10pm on Friday 22 October, the payment won’t be processed until the morning of Wednesday 27 October.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused, but that’s the nature of public holidays. Enjoy the long weekend!
New air rifle rules
We've tweaked our rules after the Government announced a new requirement will apply to all sales of pre-charged pneumatic (or 'PCP') air rifles. You can read the NZ Police release about the change here.
The guts of it is that PCP air rifles are now “specially dangerous airguns”. This means they now need to be treated as firearms under the Arms Act, and sellers are required by law to ensure that buyers have a firearms licence.
PCP air rifles will now be listed in the Rifles category, rather than in the Air guns & parts category. More...