Classified listing increasing from $49 to $59. Not a lot you may say, but for dealers selling 200 cars a year, that's $2000 more ($3000 earnings pre tax) they have to find.
noswalg,
Mar 31, 9:56am
well if members don't like it SELLA is always an option, zero fees!
woki,
Mar 31, 9:57am
It is obvious , Trademe are wanting to push the car business away by making it to expensive . Obviously they dont want cars listed on their site !
intrade,
Mar 31, 9:59am
um sella is actuarly not existing no more. they closed down for public and only companys can list goods and its integrated in to nz herald. so thats a no go no more here you go there is your idea down the drain Users will now no longer be able to list or relist an auction or classified items for sale on Sella.co.nz.
Your current account will only be accessible for a limited time. This will allow you to close any open trades etc. Our stores users will be able to export a history of sold items. All verification requests have also been cancelled.
noswalg,
Mar 31, 10:14am
I never realised that until I logged in just now, shame really it just increases TM's monopoly again and allows them to raise fees as they see fit! It would be good to see Ebay get a foothold in NZ, $19.99 for a vehicle classified in oz, no wonder Fairfax is not trying to launch TM in oz (apart from being open to australian residents)
tgray,
Mar 31, 10:22am
It's certainly a few grand more I need to find. I think I will start charging buyers the ownership changes from now on, which will recover the fee increase.
intrade,
Mar 31, 10:46am
there is other places who try to make it the problem is it takes millions of $ to create a competition out of nothing i would say there have been almsot 100 onlineauction sites been and gone on nz who never made it to name one from the olden day oneway even trade and exchange was merged to sella and now shut down. the new model the herald has is a fail they should have done it the other way advertised sella on the herald but usually its narro minded penpushers who make statistics that make the big desitions. for examplemacintosh apple would be no more was it not for steve jobs , to name one firm that had a leader with the companys future in mind.
outbidyou2,
Mar 31, 2:15pm
fees will be 10% soon for general items I'm sure.
Crap
bigfatmat1,
Mar 31, 2:44pm
what happened to wheedle thought it was a minor bug
pauloc,
Mar 31, 5:58pm
With the extra fees maybe Trademe could get a spell check option!
family.first,
Mar 31, 6:19pm
They will eventually push people away. Just wait until the day TM charge 50% commission on all sales.
nzemale,
Apr 1, 9:01am
Yes - I was wondering that too. Started out with all the hype of the world and then . nothing! Seems like the guy wasted several million and then some.
Probably got Talent 2, to write the software hahaha
damon9,
Apr 1, 9:41am
Um Sella is still around! It has merged with Trade & Exchange as I just looked there 5minutes ago.
pebbles61,
Apr 1, 10:15am
Why don't the dealerships all put in and make their own site!
NZTools,
Apr 1, 10:24am
Because they will still face the same problem that every other website that competes with trademe faces. No buyers
pebbles61,
Apr 1, 10:35am
Well if that's the attitude they're gonna take, then pay for the use of trademe.
NZTools,
Apr 1, 10:41am
Thats the point. It is worth paying to use trademe, because thats where all the buyers look. Time and time again, people have spent millions developing and marketing websites to compete with tradme, that just wither and die a slow death, as everybody who buys online, is so used to just using trademe.
Even Ebay which is globaly massive, wont waste their time or money trying to take trademe on in their own back yard.
pebbles61,
Apr 1, 10:44am
Has Ebay even considered setting up shop here! I use the UK site more and more for car parts.
NZTools,
Apr 1, 10:50am
They own all the relevant domain names etc, but they know there is no point setting up shop here.
As i have said many times, if trademe put their fees up $10, put the price of your car up $10, then it cost you nothing.
pebbles61,
Apr 1, 10:53am
The price to list your car and house is a bargain given the coverage one gets, it's the % fees on the smaller stuff that's gonna sink the site if they continue increasing them like they have been.
franc123,
Apr 1, 10:55am
And it is no longer available to private sellers, read above.
NZTools,
Apr 1, 11:01am
I pay fees by the bucketfull on all the smaller stuff i sell. If they put it up another few percent am i going to go elsewhere! No, because the buyers wont go elsewhere. I will just factor the increase into my price, just as any business does.
Even Joe public who is flogging off a spare bed, or a box full of preserving jars, has more chance of selling them quickly for the money they want on tm than on any of the free listing sites that come and go.
trogedon,
Apr 1, 11:40am
ebay has (or did, haven't looked for ages) but very little listed and even less traffic. Want to sell a car for free! Put it on the road with big signs in the windows.
tgray,
Apr 1, 12:23pm
Yes they did consider it and rightly decided not to, since Trademe have such a strong dominance in NZ.
tgray,
Apr 1, 12:30pm
I just worked out, based on the listing fee increases and subtitle increases, it will cost me $2688 more next year to list on Trademe. If I want to keep in business, there is nothing I can do but accept it and carry on. That's a family holiday to Fiji.
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