Talk:Trade Me
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Section about Clashes with Software Developers
I did not feel like this section was badmouthing TradeMe, as mentioned by 222.153.181.219.
It is reasonably well known that TradeMe's public stance is "no automated software". (However, this rule strangely doesn't seem to apply to sellers software -- see 'Auctionitis' and 'TradeTool'). TradeMe have indeed requested the immediate shutdown of several services released (e.g., 'TradeMe Sniper', 'HotBid', 'AuctionBar' and 'TraderContact') and have threatened legal action if this did not happen. I have personally seen two such letters, and have been at the receiving end of two phone-calls from TradeMe regarding such software.
I feel that, as the number of services being released is increasing quite rapidly, this issue is very pertinent and should be mentioned.
I've tried my best to add a little balance to this, although I think it would be good to add something about AuctionItis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.188.148 (talk) 00:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes, there is a lot of software that is actively used on TradeMe, including Auctionitis, TradeTool and OMINS. TradeMe doesn't seem to have a problem with these tools -- at least they haven't made any efforts to stop their use.
It's buying tools that seem to be the problem (such as AuctionBar and Snipe on TradeMe).
Unfortunately it's hard to expand on this issue as TradeMe don't make their stance on software publicly available.
All Trade Me users are bound by the site's terms and conditions (available in the 'help' section) which forbid using any automated tools to access the site. I'd say that was pretty clear 121.73.163.49 (talk) 12:10, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Messageboards
Trademe runs a messageboard which is amongst the busiest in New Zealand. However over time it has become abit of a haven for racists. Would a section about that be prudent here?
- Perhaps a small section, though making a claim that it's a haven for racists is probably not going to be NPOV/verifiable. Richard001 04:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Edit: Moved to 'community and related sites' Richard001 06:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Images
We need an updated screenshot of the site to show the newer links to smaps and stuff.co.nz. The main concern with the current one is that it's in a very lossy jpg format, a png would be much better. Richard001 07:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- I've uploaded one tonight, that's that taken care of. Richard001 08:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Besides the screenshot, further images that would improve the article are
- A good picture of Sam Morgan (I uploaded a small fair use one, but a bigger free one would be ideal)
- A picture of TradeMe headquarters (perhaps a Wellingtonian could take one and upload to Commons?)
- A typical auction on TradeMe to demonstrate the process
Removed section: Successive enhancements to the website
Most of this is fairly trivial and dated by now. The most notable changes/improvements should be placed in the history section.
- 1 November 2005 - New icon for brand new listings
- 11 November 2005 - "Buy now" price shown on category pages (obviating the need to go into the auction to see the "buy now")
- 11 November 2005 - Local tag displayed in auctions (an icon displays in auctions indicating whether the item up for auction currently shares a province of New Zealand with the enquirer)
- 21 November 2005 - Improved photo-page to make it easier to browse photos. When viewing an enlarged photo, users can see thumbnails for all images without having to return to the listing itself.
- 28 November 2005 - Email to watchers when "Buy Now" added (watchers receive an e-mail if the seller of an item adds a "buy now" price to the listing)
- 28 November 2005 - Date and time on answers and comments (questions and answers on auctions now get time-stamped with the times of asking and of answering)
- June 2006 - Automated email introduced, whereby a seller may have an automated email sent to the winner of a completed auction; such emails can contain bank account details so that the buyer can instantly deposit the funds
- August 2006 - Text bidding introduced: the system can send a bidder an SMS text message during the auction informing of the receipt of a higher bid, thus allowing the bidder ton text a still higher bid
- September 2006 - Buyers can send a template email containing an address for sending the auctioned goods to
- 20 November 2006 - New TradeMe front-end launched, with design input from the TradeMe community