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A little patience after the Christchurch quake
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you will be aware that early on Saturday morning Canterbury was awoken by a big shake. It’s times like these that often bring the Trade Me message boards to life, and the weekend was no exception. It was humbling to see many messages posted that showed that people were not only talking about the earthquake and its impact, but exchanging information and working out how to help each other. When civil emergencies like this hit, the message boards act a pretty useful conduit to information and also a way for people to support each other.
At a purely practical level, we’ve received several queries from people asking about their trades, and what happens if the item they’re selling is broken, or if they’re waiting for an item from a seller in the earthquake zone. It probably goes without saying for many, but we’d urge everyone for a little bit of patience and understanding around these issues at the moment. If you are expecting something you have bought from a Canterbury seller please try to be as flexible as possible.
Obviously life has been disrupted for thousands of Trade Me members in Canterbury, and big issues like access to clean drinking water and getting the electricity back on are going to be higher up the priority list than packing off a Trade Me parcel!
If you are a seller in or around Christchurch and had items for sale that are now bent, broken or buried under a pile of debris, we are more than happy to remove these listings for you, waive our standard withdraw fees and generally try to be flexible. Please get in touch when you can by email, phone or smoke signal.
From everyone here at Trade Me, including a good number of Cantabrians, we wish you all the best and hope the coming days go as well as they can.