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New Zealand
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The sooner Trade Me Looks at its reviews and changes its business practices the better for everyone. It has rapidly gone downhill since it was sold. No phone contact and they hide behind this, no way to challenge them, and higher fees. They take no responsibility for trades that go wrong and suspend honest accounts with no explanation. A disgraceful NZ business that should be looked into by our government.

Date of experience: October 5, 2024
New Zealand
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T/M suspended my husband and my accounts for no logical reason. We are in our 80's and trying to declutter. Unethical, rude, bullying contacts. Seems to be no way to challenge them despite their atrocious feedback!

Date of experience: September 21, 2024
New Zealand
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T/M has gone rapidly downhill since its sale. No way to speak to a person and insufficient email resolution to any problems. A thoroughly unethical business. A disgrace to New Zealand. Would have given negative stars if allowed

Date of experience: August 24, 2024
New Zealand
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Rubish platform
May 22, 2024

Absolute rubbish, expensive to trade with their double charge fees and useless customer service! Beside fb I will start using the new website that's launching soon letgo.co.nz saw the add today and I have attached a photo of their advertising

Date of experience: May 22, 2024
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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SCAM WEBSITE
December 9, 2023

Do not use trademe! Not only are their fees ridiculously high but they can reverse funds out of your account with no explanation or anything! They won't answer your emails through customer service when you ask them why they took hundreds of dollars out and they don't have a contact number to call! THIEVES! Scammers!

Date of experience: December 9, 2023
New Zealand
1 review
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Zero stars in my books there is no way of contacting their customer service team. If there is an issues there is no way of resolving it. The chat option is crap. I don't understand how trademe is NZ most trusted marketplace. Ordered Binoculars from trade me. Came in broken the guy refused to help me saying I must have broken them filed a dispute with trade me no one has contacted me yet. I will not buy from trade me again.

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Date of experience: September 20, 2022
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I recently won at auction two watches, two separate sellers on trade. One arrived broken, not working when it was described as being in working condition. The other hasn't arrived 6 weeks on.
Thye have told me that they are on the case but I think my money is just gone.
Previously bought another watch, all good, and a car as described.
Won't be using this site again

Date of experience: April 12, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Seller sold me a fake LV wallet. Contacted TM many times they refused to refund my money and despite of I have sufficient evidence they didn't give a dam. Don't buy from Trade me it's so obviously after my bad experience there are so many fake goods listing on their site and they will not do anything to protect you even though they advertised buyer protection policy in place but it's misleading. Trade me is only interested in collects fees nothing else and when it comes to customer service its like dealing with a bunch of high school kids what a bunch of arrogant useless people.

Date of experience: August 5, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No Star- My account was locked, and I have been emailing them every day Not even a Response ;). They should call back within 24 hours, But I have been waiting for over a Week! Please don't go by fancy Ads. This Customer service is not Reachable any other way now. Unless you show up in the Wellington office. It is no longer the company of the old. Will not use that site anymore. Very disappointing.
Please let me know how to reach this company to get my refund which the Retailer is happy to pay back to my ping account.

Date of experience: March 17, 2023
New Zealand
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Recently bought an item on trademe with an agreement with the seller it would be sent via a safe carrier method, after sale the seller up and sends it by a risky carrier because it was more convenient for them, without telling me til after the fact
Reported it to trademe but they dont care if sellers mislead potential buyers as long as it means they get sales, and this is the second time they have swept a report of this from me under the rug

Date of experience: June 26, 2023
New Zealand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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There are too many options that don't seem relevant to a query when I need help. I still haven't heard from the Disputes team for a month now. The cutomer service (or lack thereof) is very disappointing.

Date of experience: November 10, 2023
New Zealand
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have been waiting for more than 8 weeks for service and solution, however, none had sorted it out!

It's been good, so, I'm migrating all of my advertisements to other companies that have had better response and quality with less fee.

Thanks so much TradeMe's Team, your bad service is helping me to save money and find different flavors.

TradeMe is a legacy, New Zealand needs a better company and service.

Date of experience: February 16, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was looking at bulk uploading images via My Products. It refused to upload images from site despite that being the products intention.

They refused to admit the problem at first, had no idea how to fix it, refused to fix it. By now months had gone by. I took the problem to Nicole Williams the apparent boss who has even less idea than someone with no idea. She told me a product manager would contact me, it never happened and she never responded when I contacted her back. This something a junior Dev could fix and test in about 2 hours.

Date of experience: February 22, 2022
New Zealand
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Is a good site that i have used in the past have tried to start up my own NZ trade me account but for some unknown reason the site administrator keeps disabling my account and gives no reason. I have not had problems with other trade me buyers and or sellers in the past or with Trade me. Is not fair that people can have a NZ trade me account and others cant. They probably dont answer there feedback, and or dont have a customer service plan in place for online problems.

Date of experience: March 7, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
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After years of using Trade Me with no issues, the last trade was fraudulent and the police said this was not unusual.

I went to Trademe, the police, and bank as they suggested and the result... Trademe, the police and the bank all say they can do nothing.

Apparently the Trademe account was taken over, the email account was taken over and the bank account was taken over and the money was sent from the receiving ANZ account overseas within minutes of it landing and withdrawn there in hours (from what Kiwibank advised in their recovery attempt).

Date of experience: February 17, 2024
New Zealand
1 review
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Trade me is not safe as they say, they don't care about how much you get ripped off and how much you loose and always by the side of the dodgy and leave the victim alone. Trust and safety staff are not balanced and works against the victim, don't care about you leaving Trademe and say we are not loosing anything. I wonder why in the last years I see trademe making ads to get more members coz of these dodgy unbalanced yrust and safety staff. See you die slowly Trade me!

Date of experience: February 9, 2023
Eanna G.
New Zealand
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Dreadful site no problem paying to place an advert but then if your auction is successful you must pay another ' success' fee....hilarious that you could sell something for $1.50 and the success fee would be $.050! Even more amazing is the cost to speak to someone in their customer service team $1.99 (plus GST) PER MINUTE! Someone really has this sewn up hard to understand why ebay isn't used more in NZ. People looking to sell online have little or no other options. Without doubt a rip off :-(

Date of experience: October 26, 2013
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Second-Rate Ebay
June 13, 2015

Exorbitant fees - from selling, withdrawing a listing to their $1.99 per min phone calls. Why are New Zealanders supporting this? Do your homework - look at other auction sites and eBay Australia. They have a monopoly here which is ridiculous.

Date of experience: June 13, 2015
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Seller fees are too high. Need a cap rather than a percentage fee that increases linearly with the amount the auction sold for.

Also Trademe does nothing to stop buyers who repeatedly win auctions and then never follow through with purchasing.

Date of experience: May 28, 2017
New Zealand
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I bought a few things off this site, not many though. I've seen a lot of people who had bad experiences from this because they didn't buy responsibly, but just make sure the seller you're buying from has a good reputation. The purchases I made took a long time to arrive but were exactly what I asked for at a fairly low price. However I have had no experience on selling.

Date of experience: February 6, 2016

Overview

TradeMe NZ has a rating of 1.4 stars from 100 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with TradeMe NZ most frequently mention customer service, buyer protection and bank account. TradeMe NZ ranks 169th among Auction sites.

service
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value
22
shipping
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returns
18
quality
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