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Wheedle aims to undercut Trade Me, charging a flat-rate $1 fee on items that sell through the site for more than $20. The fees will be waived and the site will be free to use until November 29.

What's not to like? :thup:

PS: we should get them to define categories for aquarium tanks .. in terms of what "huge" means ...

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Sella.co.nz is similar and is a bit of a flop. This could be comparable to Google's attempt at the social media game. Facebook has the customer base, that's something you can't just buy so although G+ is running, it's nowhere near as successful as Facebook. I wish him luck though, competition is good for consumers.

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As the comments state, Trademe has had a lot of competitors but they never go far as Trademe is too well known and most people/business's that list on there have spent a long time building up reputations and a strong customer base. Sella is the only other website that has managed to stay around and it's not that successful. Even if Wheedle does manage to launch successfully and stay around for awhile they will eventually have to charge the same sort of fees that Trademe does just to cover costs of running a successful internet company.

Good luck to them though and I will check it out anyway.

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they will eventually have to charge the same sort of fees that Trademe does just to cover costs of running a successful internet company.

Good luck to them though and I will check it out anyway.

TM is profitable .. so why are they pushing up their fees? Because they're effectively a monopoly.

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Our standard advertising fees for auction and classified listings once your free listings/time period have been exhausted are as follows:

All items sold under $20 Flatmates Giveaways Items sold over $20 Pets Vehicles Jobs Rent Property

Free Free Free $1 $3 $9 $29 $29 $49

$3 for selling a fish? good luck with that

The non www. domain, http://wheedle.co.nz/, is even more broken than http://www.wheedle.co.nz/ get them both fixed...

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TM is profitable .. so why are they pushing up their fees? Because they're effectively a monopoly.

I agree completely, Trademe has turned real greedy since fairfax media purchased it. It has been losing money for a few years though that is why they are deciding whether to sell a few shares I think.

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