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Trade Me and Rugby World Cup tickets
We’ve received a few enquiries about selling Rugby World Cup 2011 tickets on Trade Me. The starting point for Trade Me is pretty simple: we really want Rugby World Cup 2011 to be a massive success, so we won’t do anything that might undermine this.
Rugby World Cup 2011 is a “major event” under the 2007 Major Events Management Act, which means that tickets can’t be sold above face value. The T&Cs of the tickets also prevent resale or transfer to anyone you don’t know personally. So to be safe, you should assume you can only pass on tickets to friends and loved ones.
However, it’s possible a secondary market will be set up closer to the event. We’re talking to the good people at RWC 2011 about ideas for this, but it’s potentially a complicated little beast, and nothing has been decided yet.
It’s also important to remember that for any event, we don’t let people sell tickets they don’t have. People won’t be in possession of their RWC 2011 tickets until about a year from now, so even if we do end up allowing ticket sales, they won’t be able to be listed until then at the earliest.
In case you were wondering, tickets are a pretty tiny part of our business, not a huge money-spinner. We’d need to do some special work to cater for the conditions around RWC 2011, but we’d like to be part of the event in a constructive way. In simple terms: if we can help, we will.
If there are any interesting developments we’ll post an update here, plus RWC 2011 has lots of useful info at rugbyworldcup.com, or you can follow them on Facebook.
Daily deals start tomorrow!
We’re launching daily deals – hot deals available for a fixed price for one day only. Stock will be limited, and you’ll be able to purchase by credit or debit card.
Daily deals will kick off on the homepage from 10am, Thursday July 1st. Sign up for email alerts now so you don’t miss out!
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P.S. Would you like your listings to be included in daily deals? Email our daily deals team and we'll be in touch. Please include a contact number, product description, stock availability and pricing information.
White noise on Trade Me
As All Whites mania subsides (a little), we thought it might be interesting to have a quick look at the fuss and fanfare driven by our much-celebrated national football team over the past few weeks.
Taking a look at the graph below (click to expand), the peak of interest in terms of searches came the day of the team's superb effort to draw 1-1 with Italy in the dead of the night a week ago. Clearly, Kiwis were showing solidarity with the team, and plenty added their support after an extraordinary effort by the men in white against the reigning world champions.
The top 10 All Whites-related searches over the past couple of weeks are here:
- All Whites shirt
- All Whites jersey
- All Whites bra
- All Whites football
- All Whites scarf
- All Whites signed
- All Whites flag
- Nike All Whites
- All Whites poster
- All Whites shorts
The most unusual item on the list is of course Tracey's "piece of New Zealand sporting history" in the bronze medal position. As well as making the papers, the world's most famous black bra also featured in The Daily Telegraph's World Cup coverage.
If you're keen to add this quirky piece to your sports memorabilia collection, you'll be in for a late night: it closes in the witching hour tomorrow morning.
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Our new bulk listing tool has arrived!
We’ve created a free listing tool, called My Products, to help you easily manage bulk inventory if you sell a lot of items on Trade Me. It automatically manages auctions, so you can run your business more smoothly. We’re making it available to everyone, but we think it will be particularly handy if you’re selling multiple items that are identical or closely related.
Here’s some of the cool stuff that My Products allows you to do:
- import and update listings in bulk
- assign a custom SKU/product code
- set a product to relist and/or automatically send a fixed price offer
- set an end time for automatically relisted auctions
- use auto-billing to ensure your products continue to list, even when your Trade Me account is in debt
China visits Trade Me
A group of Chinese young leaders visited our Wellington office last week to find out about Trade Me’s experiences of e-commerce in New Zealand, and compare this with the bevy of online marketplaces in China.
The visit was part of the first ever NZ-Sino Youth Exchange, a programme that brings together a handful of young leaders from New Zealand and China. In October last year, five young Kiwis headed over to China, with the help of Asia:NZ and the magnificently named China People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and last week saw the reciprocal visit to New Zealand.
Before coming up the lift to Trade Me, our Chinese visitors had already visited dairy gurus Fonterra and bee product experts Comvita, touched Oscars at special effects maestros Weta, met a couple of Government ministers, and had a taste of Maori culture in Rotorua.
Bowen Pan was one of the Kiwi group who went to China in 2009 and is now on the staff at Trade Me where he is in our strategy, finance and analytics team. He took this week off work to hit the road with the Chinese delegation.
Bowen says the exchange is about developing friendships and networks across the business, education and government sectors. “The New Zealand government is investing heavily in China to help Kiwi firms do business in China. One example is New Zealand Central, a $40m project in Shanghai that aims to be a ‘home base’ for New Zealand businesses.”
Thanks to our Chinese visitors for making it in to Trade Me for a chat, and a look around our neck of the woods.
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