camtang Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industr ... n-Trade-Me finaly someone is taking on tard me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 I wouldn't invest in it anyway, I don't see it going very far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 another example of outstanding investigative journalism.. :yaw2: ... yep throwing money at something is recipe for success Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted September 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 I hope it gets far, I am sick of paying stupid amounts of money to list and sell stuff. And I am glad that they have some competion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Site is down for maintenance. 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 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 The only way to drive down the success fees on TM is to use another site. It's interesting that in times of financial difficulty for many, TM increases their fees just because they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Where did you pull those rates from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 from herehttp://blog.wheedle.co.nz/. All ready commented on them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Losing money? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/ne ... d=10828624 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaide Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Meh, bring Ebay to NZ - then we'll see some real competition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 All items sold under $20 free. So, if your fish sells for under $20, there doesn't seem to be a $3 charge, Perhaps those fees are targeting the $800 pet dogs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Meh, bring Ebay to NZ - then we'll see some real competition http://pages.ebay.com/nz/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 All items sold under $20 free. So, if your fish sells for under $20, there doesn't seem to be a $3 charge, Perhaps those fees are targeting the $800 pet dogs? It also said $1 for over $20 so who knows Edit maybe the table is meant to be split into listing fees and sell fee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 In ye olde days if a site was mentioned on /. and it went down, it was known as slashdotted. I guess in this instance the site was stuffed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 In ye olde days if a site was mentioned on /. and it went down, it was known as slashdotted. I guess in this instance the site was stuffed? Don't make me feel old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 the TM fees are going up 0.5% http://www.trademe.co.nz/community/anno ... e-increase it's not a whole lot but their excuse is definitely 'just because we can' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Sad state of programming if after 2 years of development ... people are logging in and finding themselves in other random people's accounts! Amazon EC2 has been around for years now .. plenty of time to learn how to bring up virtual servers to manage increased site traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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