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Our new natural disaster & civil emergency policy
Written by The Trade Me team in General at 9:00am, Wed 18 Mar 2020
Today we’re introducing a new policy which will restrict the price of items onsite, that are related to a disaster or emergency. These new measures aim to protect our users from exploitative pricing during the Covid-19 outbreak, and future events.
This means that listings which attempt to take an excessive profit during a disaster or emergency, are not permitted. Listings may not feature excessive Buy Now or reserve prices, and may only use normal retail pricing that was in place prior to the event.
If you do come across anything on Trade Me that doesn’t look right, please use the Community Watch button at the bottom of every listing and one of our team will take a look.