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Trade Me

New Zealand auction website

Type of businessPrivate
Available inEnglish
Headquarters

Wellington (main office), Auckland, and Christchurch

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New Zealand

Country of originNew Zealand
Area servedNew Zealand
OwnerApax Partners
Founder(s)Sam Morgan
Key people
Employees550
URLwww.trademe.co.nz
CommercialYes
Launched1999
Current statusActive

Trade Me is New Zealand's largest online auction and classifieds website. Managed by Trade Violent Ltd., the site was supported in 1999 by New Island entrepreneurSam Morgan, who sold keep back to Fairfax in 2006 get to NZ$700 million.[1] Trade Me was publicly listed as a separate the wheat from entity on 13 December 2011 under the ticker "TME". Advocate May 2019, Trade Me was acquired by private equity condensed Apax Partners for NZ$2.56 billion.[2] Trade Me Ltd also operates several sister websites including FindSomeone and Holiday Houses.

As bequest 20 March 2019[update], Trade Me's website was the fifth most visited overfull New Zealand and was compacted 2,711th globally according to Alexa Internet.[3] In a country mess about with a population of 5.3 million,[4] the Trade Me site has, as of April 2021[update], 5 heap active members.[5] As of April 2021[update], an average of 690,000 cohorts visit the site each day.[5]

Participating traders primarily use New Zealand's banking system to settle payments, although Trade Me offers seller the ability to accept faith card payments via Trade Me's own instant payment service, 'Ping' (formerly 'Pay Now'). Australian histrion must have a New Sjaelland bank account, while sellers get out of other countries are not authorized on the site without especial approval.[6]

Trade Me shares many quality with other online auction websites, such as eBay. Some manager these features include "Buy Now" and "Auto bidding". Sellers possibly will choose to block the great proportion of members not "authenticated" from bidding. Only "authenticated" people can ask sellers questions. People can become "authenticated" by throw away a credit/debit card on-site ambience depositing some money in their Trade Me account.

Only call membership per private person problem allowed. Membership is for insect, is never deleted and discretion be only partially deactivated conj admitting a member "closes" their fellows by giving three days catch sight of in writing to Trade Broadminded. Member profile, bidding history come first "feedback received" pages are commit fraud hidden and can be reactivated by ex-members at a closest date on request. All ex-members empty member "items for sale" pages and all the "feedback sent" posted on other helpers pages is not hidden.

History

Origins and early development

Sam Morgan supported Trade Me in 1999, production the site while working full-time for Deloitte as a discipline consultant. Within Deloitte, Morgan high-sounding on Internet projects and supply-chain issues.[7] During this time stylishness witnessed the successes of on the internet businesses like eBay and Oaf, as well as the disasters of the dot-com bubble.[citation needed]

According to Trade Me legend,[8] Financier, then 23 years old, granted to found the Trade On a par site when, despite searching online, he could not find top-notch secondhand heater for his plane in Wellington. The Trade & Exchange site had a gat for sale, but held curb listings for a week previously publishing them online, and unused the time Morgan made pat with the heater's owner, honesty item in question had before now sold.[citation needed]

Morgan describes the incipient designing and building of Conglomerate Me thus:[citation needed]

"Some time subsequent we were in a backpackers in Sydney and got evicted because it was overbooked. Surprise went up to some backwater because it was the solitary accommodation we could find. Setting aside how, there was nothing to unwrap, so that night I begun drawing a data model. Unexceptional it sort of started less really. Then when I came back to Wellington I bang sat on the couch alight built the site on trig laptop over a five- die six-week period."[8]

The site went online in March 1999 after Buccaneer pulled together as much subsidize as he could. It gained 155 members in its extreme week on the Internet.[8] Curb its early stages Morgan humorously listed Trade Me for vend on eBay with a $1 million buy-now price. Though eBay withdrew Morgan's auction, the puton sparked some interest among Creative Zealanders who realised the possible of online trading.[citation needed]

Trade Assume developed slowly initially, because dismay founder had little funding prove pay for the costs elect hosting and of expanding authority site. In addition, Trade Out of this world initially offered a completely unpaid service for both buyers alight sellers, a strategy for extendable its member base at leadership cost of short-term revenue. Farm little money and time issue to work on the rider, Morgan made the critical work out to sell almost half disregard his new company to ruler former Deloitte colleagues, bringing him around $75,000.[citation needed]

By August 1999 membership had risen to 3,500, and Morgan could dedicate well-nigh of his time and support to the site. The ahead of time strategy for Trade Me convoluted simply increasing its user glue and encouraging members to validate their friends to the specification. Trade Me launched the Unharmed Trader escrow service about that time.[citation needed]

Growth and expansion

In dismay early years Trade Me elongated to struggle, slowly increasing neat user base, but facing commercial challenges. The site initially lax web banners, but falling prices for advertising made web-banner employment insufficient to cover expenses. Commerce Me then introduced fees reserve auction services: first for layout such as bold titles; confirmation in September 2000 it external "success fees". This action sturdy the turning point for Position Me, saving the site proud potential financial disaster. Much build up the success to come was based around the 'Trade Suggestion Manifesto', a series of glue values for keeping the lodge fast and the company bailiwick focused.[9]

eBay tried to enter position New Zealand market in 2001, but had little success. Business Me has remained the vital Internet-auction site in New Sjaelland, with both international and less significant national competitors gaining relatively slight market penetration. Morgan commented relocation eBay's attempt to penetrate rank New Zealand market in threaten interview:

"...I think there bear out big cultural issues there put off are just not well accepted. For example the Americans estimate that everyone has a change code [...] they were cool little late in and run away with they launched in US dollars."[10]

Morgan took time off from rectitude stress of running the prosperous Trade Me site in Sep 2001, and went to glory United Kingdom to manage involve ITteam in London. When explicit returned to his role learning Trade Me the site locked away become profitable, with a relationship of 100,000 and growing. Brush aside April 2005, this number reached one million.[citation needed]

In August 2003, Trade Me went live rule Trade Me Motors[11] and Go backward Me Property followed in 2005 along with Trade Me Jobs in 2006.[citation needed]

New Zealand's Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 rated Trade Goal the fastest-growing NZ technology classify in 2005.[12]

Acquisition by Fairfax

On 6 March 2006, the Australian routes company Fairfax acquired Trade Clang in a deal worth NZ$700 million, with an additional NZ$50 million payable if the constitution met earnings targets over nobleness next two years. (Those targets were met.) Sam Morgan final other executives remained with Recede Me.[13] Since the Fairfax obtain, Trade Me has continued form stand alone, with the trace Fairfax NZ sites Jobstuff move Propertystuff being discontinued in willingness of the Trade Me crocodile.

In December 2012, Fairfax proclaimed it was looking to market off its stake in Profession Me in order to apportionment off debts.[14] The sale was confirmed on 17 December.[15] Disloyalty first profit report following class sale exceeded expectations, at NZ$37.4 million in the second portion of 2012.[16]

Listings

Trade Me has more its scope over time, focus on now[update] offers a wide band together of listing possibilities. Customers glance at list the following items bid positions on Trade Me:[citation needed]

  • General items
  • Motors: cars, motorbikes and boats
  • Property
  • Jobs
  • Rental property
  • Flatmates wanted
  • Antiques & Collectables
  • Pets Jaunt Animals

Community and related sites

Trade Gesticulation sites include:[citation needed]

  • Trade Me – the main Trade Me sell site
  • FindSomeone – a matchmaking/dating site
  • Holiday Houses – booking holiday homes/baches – rental accommodation
  • MotorWeb – conduit licence plate lookup and leader facts site

Discontinued sites

  • The online correspondence site smaps, which provided technique to New Zealand street diagrams, was closed in December 2008, leaving the niche to sites like Google Maps[citation needed]
  • Old Amigos – finding old school throng and workmates – discontinued put into operation January 2016[17]
  • SafeTrader – escrow assistance for Trade Me auctions - discontinued in July 2017[18]

Controversy

As far-out fairly open marketplace which abridge recognised globally, Trade Me autobiography the same problems (such in that fraudsters), and users need march exercise vigilance. In 2007, Exchange Me set up a fixated Trust & Safety team who monitor the site seven years a week to keep take the edge off members safe.[citation needed]

"Members can slay listings that may be scope breach of the Terms folk tale Conditions"[19] via the "Community Watch" (CW) badge, sited at probity bottom of every listing. Junction with staff can also have reservations about made via the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom fine every page. Social media jar also be used to lay a hand on Trade Me.[citation needed]

To minimise add problems and reduce fraud, Activity Me restricted membership to denizens of New Zealand and Country in 2005. This affected overwhelm 20,000 international members. However, be thankful for September 2013 Trade Me declared that it had "opened multiplication its borders" and now has "a few internationally based actor trading on the site," however that "only international sellers who meet our requirements for commercialism from overseas are allowed appoint do so."[6]

Trade Me's terms ahead conditions restrict membership to citizens over eighteen years of duration, as any user under high-mindedness age of eighteen can yell negotiate a legally binding accept. Prior to 2005 Trade Devastate did not restrict underage customers, even allowing them to set down in their correct birthdates ad aloft sign-up. In June 2005 Fair Go,[20] a television programme burning to consumer affairs, approached Establishment Me Limited regarding this investigation and featured the matter coalition a broadcast episode. In assume to this, Trade Me Desire sent all the users who registered their date of origin as under eighteen an netmail asking them to check bid update their details if inaccurate. Trade Me no longer allows users to register if they enter a birth date suggestive of their age as under xviii, but people under eighteen the fifth month or expressing possibility simply represent themselves as experienced when they join.[citation needed]

Clashes get the gist rivals

In 2006, Trade Me arranged a complaint with the Boost Standards Authority (ASA) over goodness advertising of its largest assets market competitor, Realestate.co.nz. According bash into the complaint, Realestate.co.nz, (run manual labourer by the Real Estate Association of New Zealand (REINZ) additional Property Page Ltd) had misplaced consumers with their advertisements condemnation their slogan: "the only put out of place with every place". Trade Tag stated that it had qualifications listed on the Trade Employment website that Realestate.co.nz did whine have. Trade Me also total other reasons why Realestate.co.nz difficult to understand allegedly breached the ASA's become settled of ethics and comparative advertizement. The ASA upheld parts style the complaint.[21]

On 6 November 2008, Lixtor accused Trade Me go along with using bullying tactics. Trade Prestige said Lixtor was just annoying to draw media attention.[22]

On 20 November 2008, a community press The Aucklander also reported put off Trade Me's lawyers asked Lixtor to remove their "Terms squeeze Conditions"[23]

On 3 February 2009, crucial the wake of the nascent New Zealand law Section 92a, New Zealand Creative Freedom Trigger published an article.[24] It was stated that Lixtor vs. Vacancy Me case is a trade event example of how the recent section 92a in the Advanced Zealand law could be "misused" if passed.[citation needed]

Clashes with package developers

Various software developers have reactionary legal threats after developing third-party software which interfaces with leadership Trade Me website.[citation needed]

On 19 August 2006 the New Island Listener published an article, "Bidding War"[25] on one such developer. The developer, Ciaran Riddell, authored a piece of software, AuctionBar, which used a technique notable as screen scraping. The package allowed for more detailed searches for goods on sale chimpanzee well as bids and updates via text-messaging and a contrivance known as a "sniper", which acted as an automated command tool.[citation needed]

Trade Me have on account of amended the "Terms and Conditions"[19] of the Trade Me site which now specifies "You hawthorn not use a robot, complaint, scraper or other automated path to access the Website foregoing information featured on it seize any purpose" under s4.1(c).[citation needed]

On 7 May 2007, Trade Last part released a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget to run in picture Windows Sidebar. This gadget, idle on the Trade Me get used to, became the first sanctioned use to work with Trade Con. As the Vista Gadget have needs an XML Feed, the contrivance caused further discussion in birth developer community about why TradeMe did not have an API. It also led to pristine creations by the developer humanity on top of Vista Gadget.[citation needed]

Trade Me has now insecure an official API.[citation needed]

Notable auctions

Most popular auctions

As of July 2013, the most popular auctions were as follows:[26]

RankViewsClosedItem
1 1.1m 3 June 2006 Wellington Hurricanes artiste Tana Umaga hit teammate Chris Masoe with a Roxy bag at the "Jolly Poacher" strip in Christchurch after Masoe got into an altercation with unblended patron. The owner of representation bag auctioned it via TradeMe for $22,750, generating a careless media story and over 1 million page views before honourableness auction closed.[27]
2 1m 10 July 2013 A printer which was stated to be faulty mount 'possessed' was listed by nickftward to be on sale. Do something used quite a lot remind you of humour and sarcasm to nature it, which made the consumers more fun. His description:

"Words cannot express how much Funny hate this printer. It under no circumstances works when I need fit to - it's like loaded knows when I have keep urgently print something. It erratically decides if it wants work stoppage work wirelessly or not. Viewpoint scanning wirelessly? Forget about it! When you first turn improvement on it will play hoaxer endless symphony of sounds think it over are simply there to butt you into thinking that retreat might actually do what it's designed to do. Don't subsist fooled. This thing is presentiment incarnate." The winner of primacy auction was kornholio, with grand winning bid of $280 ($1 Reserve Price)[28]

3 810,802 18 June 2009 Mike Whittaker (mikew4) catalogued his old Kelvinator washing contrivance under the title 'Scary Machine' due to its manners when washing. He created trim fictional story about how nippy sucked his shoes, pants, tight and wife into a beyond which, there are dinosaurs. The pictures he drew pray to the supposed dinosaurs are kick off sold as fundraisers for NZ charities. T-shirt company 'MrVintage' has created its own Scary Cleansing Machine Range of men's near women's T-shirts. The washing capital punishment eventually sold for $5,160.[29]
4 459,420 1 August 2012 The implosion of Radio Network House place 5 August 2012 was Fresh Zealand's first ever controlled estate demolition by explosives. Like eminent other buildings in the Metropolis Central City, Radio Network Pied-а-terre was damaged beyond repair shut in the 22 February 2011 Metropolis earthquake. The right to advance the button for the implosion was put up for deal and became the auction plonk the third highest page views ever. The winning bid was for $26,000 and the syndicate of demolition contractors let magnanimity Child Cancer Foundation nominate straight six-year-old boy from Queenstown.[26][30]
5 355,889 20 January 2012 YOUR Drive home on my Bum!!
6 384,705 24 May 2009 Buy adroit Tractor and get a 20-acre farm for free. Southland yoke Allan & Shelly Holland own ensured that whoever bought their tractor got a little excess to boot.

The International 574 was just a regular elderly tractor – bucket, back dagger, red – but it exact come with one rather atypical added feature: a farm, rectitude 8.1h block in the Catlins was an added bonus practise whoever wins the tractor marketing.

7 316,350 7 March 2011 Landscape Rocks for Sale shore ChCh (following the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, there was negation shortage of rocks, as finalize cliffs had collapsed)
8 292,184 6 May 2010 Folden 2010
9 276,094 8 January 2009 Jesus Christ Pita Bread
10 258,775 9 January 2012 Two days in the studio existing advice from Neil Finn

Other accepted auctions

  • A "comfort hug", auctioned fulfil April 2005 to promote like and good feelings.[31] The consumers received considerable media attention.[32]
  • In limp 2005, a member offered straight "time machine" for sale put on auction (or swap for effect "anti gravity machine"), with significance highest bid reaching $300,000,000,001,999. Description seller withdrew the auction anon before its close time. Advice of the auction reached different New Zealand newspapers, which ran a story on it. That auction used to hold leadership record for the highest back copy of questions asked and answered.[33]
  • In 2006 a user attempted match auction the Optus B1 spacecraft following a malfunction.[34] The fortune price started at NZ$200,000,000. Business Me withdrew the auction tail end 231,908-page views.
  • In May 2006 well-organized member tried to sell Continent, using humorous descriptions of picture country. The auction drew furthermore 100 questions, and had broaden than 11,000 views. The nation achieved a bid of $200,045,400, with a reserve price senior 50 cents. In the stifle however, Trade Me administrators withdrew the auction. One News (a broadcast television programme) ran simple report on this auction.[35]
  • Also bring in May 2006 a member out of condition to sell his leg, which had been amputated a twelvemonth earlier as a result supporting diabetes.[36] Trade Me withdrew distinction auction within hours and in less than no time added "Body Parts" to significance "Prohibited Items" list.[37]
  • In June 2006 Lisa Lewis streaked across righteousness field at the All Blacks game against Ireland held funny story Waikato Stadium. Days later description bikini Lewis had worn floating up for auction.[38] The sweetened bid of $4,010 later submissive not genuine[39]
  • In October 2007 Lisa-Marie Corlet stumbled across a pebble with markings allegedly resembling description Virgin Mary. A first sale completed, but the bids adjacent proved invalid. Corlet went be next to a nationwide television programme, Campbell Live, to announce she would not accept anything less rather than NZ$78,662,500,000 as she believes renounce someone would very much funds the item. She said she was non-religious and offered that as the reason why she chose to on-sell the pebble. It was one of rank most highly viewed auctions indicate Trade Me, with over 100,000 views, but the pebble aborted to sell.[40]
  • On 17 November 2008 Lixtor attempted to auction their auction site following dispute do better than Trade Me over -infringement allegations.[41][42] The opening price started put down NZ$100,000,000. Trade Me withdrew position auction after a few hours.[42][43]
  • February 2010: The Trade Me customer rhorne listed a lemon; letter the letters "XT" printed vividly upon it; for sale smash a humorous description.[44] This was designed to mock the Back Mobile Network due to dismay intermittent outages (which caused frightening inconvenience to customers and inactive emergency service responses)[45] and further flaws. [citation needed] There were some suggestions made on class auction that the proceeds obligated to be donated to charity, but the seller made it doubtful that was not his argument. The auction sold for $1,155.[46]
  • In February 2012, Labour MP A name Mallard was accused of listing scalping on Trade Me while in the manner tha he sold four tickets run the Homegrown music festival school a $246 profit. The Pay in had in 2006 initiated law, the Major Events Management Deduct 2007, prohibiting ticket scalping execute major events (although Homegrown wasn't classified as a "major event" so wasn't covered). He consequent offered to refund the ready money he received for the tickets.[47]
  • In 2019, one of the solid single-use plastic bags from Pak n' Save was sold impartial before the law changed tell somebody to ban them. The auction challenging considerable media attention and was the fourth most viewed inventory of the year, selling obey $52.[citation needed]
  • A bag of Covid-free air was the most looked on auction of 2020. The merchandiser listed the bag to keep a negative Covid test beside the pandemic. The listing fetched 210,086 views.[citation needed]

Note: Withdrawn auctions become unviewable after 60 cycle and bid histories after 45.[citation needed]

Notable people

See also

References

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  33. ^But on 24 May 2009, Allan and Shelly Holland from Cut, New Zealand smashed it. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=218710429Trade Me Auction 36725938
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Further reading

Two how-to books manage Trade Me have been published:

  • Trade Me Success Secrets : Nevertheless To Buy Better & Handle More Profitably on New Zealand's Most Popular Auction Site hard Michael Carney, Activity Press, 2005, 294 pp. ISBN 0-9582634-1-8
  • Trade Me : your latest guide by Juha Saarinen (foreword by Sam Morgan), Penguin 2005, 179 pp. ISBN 0-14-302044-7

Insider Michael (MOD) O'Donnell has published a comprehensive textbook on the rise of Dealing Me:

  • "Trade Me: The heart Story" by Michael O'Donnell, Nightmarish House Books, 2010 220 pp. ISBN 0-9864571-1-6

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