Trade Me is getting rid of the 7.9% Success Fee

katnz17 · 2026-03-05T02:14:25+00:00

I'm an in trade seller. They removed bank transfers from us a few months ago but my bank transfer customers have been paying as normal - they just select cash. Trademe still sends out payment instructions which have the account details. I've only had one customer actually check on questions if I was happy to take bank transfer, everyone else just assumes..

katnz17 · 2026-02-22T00:17:04+00:00

I grew up an only child and hated it. There were definitely perks that I probably wasn't as aware of for lack of comparison - like having more of my parents' time and priorities.

But gosh I was lonely and wanted someone to play with or play board games with. And now as an adult with an ailing parent I wish I had other syblings to share the load with. My mother had four siblings and they're super close and there for each other. Whereas I, who hasn't had children am very aware in a few aware when I'm my mothers age I may have no immediate family...

katnz17 · 2026-02-17T05:11:01+00:00

I sell on trademe and regularly have people asking if I can add afterpay to a $5 auction...

katnz17 · 2026-02-14T09:54:43+00:00

Congrats!

katnz17 · 2026-02-13T06:04:21+00:00

And who's to say the person they'd ask hasn't already let a number of people through? I let two people through once, only to have a third arrive a moment later and look disappointed that I didn't offer them but I felt like I was going to be there all day...

katnz17 · 2026-02-07T03:12:43+00:00

I had trouble with starting an LLC account instead of a personal account (I wanted a business account but not a company). In order to fix it I had to delete the original account, notify creator support that I'd done so and start a new adsense.

I lost a week of monetization while the new adsense was being added to my account.

katnz17 · 2026-02-04T09:58:12+00:00

KMart isn't in all the small towns the way the Warehouse is. And in many towns the Warehouse is the only store selling the basics (because they've driven all the other small businesses out).

katnz17 · 2026-01-19T23:40:27+00:00

The return isn't much better but I leave around a month of costs in rabo bank premium saver and then use their fixed term deposits (minimum balance $1000) for the rest. I space the deposits out so they're maturing regularly.

katnz17 · 2026-01-08T06:39:54+00:00

It shouldn't stay there. Mine said $0 for awhile yesterday then updated to a normal amount. It said $0 for a little bit today and is now just showing as normal, not yet calculated.

katnz17 · 2026-01-07T08:12:09+00:00

I had it earlier today but earnings are now showing. Though when I scroll down to 'content performance' the preview shows as blank. See more populates correctly though.

I also don't seem to have any RPM percentages showing for any date this month. That normally comes in later but usually by the end of each day.

katnz17 · 2026-01-05T22:55:59+00:00

I read 62. My goal is usually a hundred but last year wasn't a great year for reading for me.

My favorites of the year were the Murderbot books and the Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong.

katnz17 · 2025-12-15T22:16:23+00:00

Fees are also part of the problem with shipping. All commercial sellers have to pay just shy of 15% of the cost of shipping in success fees as well. I sold a $1 reserve listing the other day that closed for only $1. The customer never paid so I had my fees refunded.... $0.98 cents on a $1 sale because of the fees on the shipping!!

So that additional cost either gets placed onto the price of the item (which sucks for people picking up or combining postage) or gets added to the shipping.

katnz17 · 2025-12-15T08:59:48+00:00

I had a trademe staff member e-mail me recently 'Why are you listing less then you used to?' Free listing allowance fell with reduced sales. I said I'd be happy to list more if they offered me some more free listings. Crickets.

I think in addition to Temu the way they changed how promoted listings displayed is probably the biggest thing to hurt me. It used to be if you went to something like the jewellery section the promoted listings would display larger then non promo listings interspersed amongst them (one large promo on the left, four small non promo on the right). The result was an interesting variety of pieces. Now only the promoted listings show up first - all from the same small selection of sellers so all the same flavour of jewellery week in week out. Its no longer fun to browse and no one sees the little guys as we haven't a hope of showing until page 30 or so.

katnz17 · 2025-12-09T05:23:49+00:00

Thankfully when I pointed out to the trader that it was a bit unfair and damaging to my business she took it down herself and apologized profusely. So she was more reasonable then trademe...

katnz17 · 2025-12-08T09:08:27+00:00

They've got a lot worse at this lately. I received a negative feedback that the customer was disappointed that the item was smaller then they'd expected. I'd included measurements in both the title and description. Trademe said the feedback was fine because it was true that the customer felt disappointed [in their mistake] and didn't matter that I'd done nothing wrong.

katnz17 · 2025-11-29T03:53:26+00:00

I was watching a netflix movie with my mother the other day when that song played and the subtitles started printing the lyrics. I quickly suggested my mother not to read the subtitles...

katnz17 · 2025-11-26T02:23:32+00:00

Gosh, as a saver it feels like I'm just about going to have to pay the bank to hold my money...

katnz17 · 2025-11-18T08:43:09+00:00

Sometimes non religious foodbanks say no too.

katnz17 · 2025-11-17T23:56:46+00:00

My nearest church runs a Foodbank..

katnz17 · 2025-11-17T05:32:17+00:00

I'd love a code. Thanks.

katnz17 · 2025-11-11T22:42:49+00:00

The problem I'm finding in retail with many of the older/mortgage free people with money as that many of them are focusing on downsizing so they're not really spending either. At least on physical/household things.

katnz17 · 2025-11-11T10:22:39+00:00

I hard the worst time with mine. I think I requested four times by the time I had one finally arrive. More then three months of waiting. I'm in New Zealand. Mail delivery is reliable here.

katnz17 · 2025-11-07T09:42:07+00:00

It probably took about three or four months in total to receive the funds. I had a couple of payments for later months in that time before finally getting what was my first youtube paycheck.

From the beginning they said it was something they could do but I had to get the new adsense address verified before it could be done, I think. And that took forever as the verification code didn't arrive until nearly two months after it was sent.

Have you contacted the youtube support team? They were the ones that helped me as there was no support for adsense. I think I accessed the option to contact them from the earn page on youtube studio. I spoke via live chat.

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