Hi technomancer,
Your description made me laugh. That's how a lot of things are in New Zealand - unfortunately.
TradeMe is basically the ebay of New Zealand, the only successful auction platform. As far as I know there used to be even a time when ebay.co.nz was redirected to trademe.co.nz. All attempts to establish an urgently needed competitor have failed so far. And TradeMe takes advantage of it by increasing the prices and limiting/hassling their users with stupid policies, some of them most probably imposed by the government/customs.
Your description made me laugh. That's how a lot of things are in New Zealand - unfortunately.
TradeMe is basically the ebay of New Zealand, the only successful auction platform. As far as I know there used to be even a time when ebay.co.nz was redirected to trademe.co.nz. All attempts to establish an urgently needed competitor have failed so far. And TradeMe takes advantage of it by increasing the prices and limiting/hassling their users with stupid policies, some of them most probably imposed by the government/customs.