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Supporting te reo Maori
We’ve taken a couple of small steps towards providing more support for te reo Maori.
We know we’re not perfect, as you may notice with the missing macrons in this announcement – our site technically can’t support them yet. Today’s changes are a small step, but the first of many and we hope you enjoy them.
iOS app updated More...
Afterpay has landed
We announced in May that we've teamed up with Afterpay to offer a buy now, pay later payment option on Trade Me. We're pleased that as of today Trade Me members can now use Afterpay on over 1.3 million items across 230 categories.
Buyers who use Afterpay get their items immediately but pay it off in four fortnightly interest-free payments. For instance, if a buyer bought a pair of pants for $100 using Afterpay, they receive them straight away but pay them off in fortnightly payments of $25.
For more information check out the Afterpay help pages.
An update to our Privacy policy
A few weeks ago, we let you know about a change we were making to our Privacy policy. This change comes into effect today.
While Trade Me already places a number of restrictions on the sale of firearms, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes with Police to increase the safety and transparency of our firearms community.
From 13 September, we'll begin to ask for the name and number on a firearms licence before allowing a Trade Me member to bid, ask questions, click ‘Buy Now’ or continue with the purchase of a firearms listing. We will use this information to verify that the buyer or seller has a legitimate and current firearms licence, and that those details match their Trade Me membership. More...
All pages now use HTTPS technology
This morning we made some changes to make the desktop version of Trade Me even more secure. Previously, the URL for some of our pages began with “http”, however they now start with “https” (the ‘s’ stands for ‘secure’).
We’ve had ‘secure’ versions of pages on the desktop site for several years where it matters the most (e.g. log in screens, payment screens, My Trade Me features, and the ‘Sell’ process). Today’s change goes above and beyond to ensure all pages work the same way, from a security perspective.
The only change you might notice is seeing the padlock icon on all pages throughout Trade Me, instead of just on the important pages, which makes it much harder for external parties to snoop in on network traffic. More...
An update to our terms and conditions
Today the Afterpay terms for Trade Me sellers come into effect, as we announced on 31 July 2017. If you’re a seller and interested in offering Afterpay on your listings, please take a look at the terms.
Today we’ve also made some Afterpay-related changes to our standard Terms and conditions, Privacy policy and the Buyer Protection policy.
We’ll be launching Afterpay in September. If you’re keen to get buying with Afterpay, make sure you visit our sign-up page to pre-register and go into the draw to win one of five $2,000 shopping sprees (conditions apply).