Vendors treated as pawns: Helm
Groups of agents in some parts of the country have boycotted Trade Me after the company announced price rises. It has stopped charging a fixed fee to list all their properties to a fee of $159, plus GST, per listing.
One Hawke’s Bay agency, Tremain, said the move would quadruple its Trade Me costs. It would instead advertise listings only on its website, realestate.co.nz and Property Page – as well as via print media.
In total, 1700 Hamilton and Hawke’s Bay listings have been pulled.
Trade Me wrote to 1300 vendors, offering to reinstate their listings without charge, saying it did not want customers to be disadvantaged.
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