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Speaker 1: Question for you, is it possible that the age of

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Speaker 1: trade me being used for the buying and selling of

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Speaker 1: secondhand household items is over? I asked this because trade

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Speaker 1: me is clearly realized it's got a problem. Right. It's

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Speaker 1: announced today that it's going to be scrapping it's eight

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Speaker 1: percent success fee because customers have told them the fees

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Speaker 1: they charged it is far too high. I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 1: I sawd a bunch of baby stuff I wasn't using

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Speaker 1: anymore on trade me last month. It was like a

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Speaker 1: rocker and a bath and a baby food cooker, that

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. I will never use trade me for

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Speaker 1: that again. By the time I'd taken the photos and

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Speaker 1: then put the ads up, then sold the things, then

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Speaker 1: box them up, then marched them down to the post shop,

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Speaker 1: then dispatched them to bloody Sedden, and then gone back

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Speaker 1: to the buyer to tell them the cost of the postage.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't worth my while it was way too much admin,

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Speaker 1: but especially when I saw how little money I was

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Speaker 1: actually getting for all of that effort. After trade me

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Speaker 1: had taken out an eight percent success fee and then

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Speaker 1: two percent for using their ping payment service, which they

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Speaker 1: own and then about six dollars just for listing the

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Speaker 1: item in a decent way. There wasn't actually that much left.

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Speaker 1: If you're selling something for about fifty bar you've lost

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Speaker 1: eleven of that to them, as about twenty percent of it.

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Speaker 1: And most of the stuff I sold sold for a song,

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Speaker 1: and some of the stuff I could just couldn't sell

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Speaker 1: at all. Maybe part of the problem is that you

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Speaker 1: don't have to go to trade me anymore to get

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Speaker 1: something for a good price. It is now the age

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Speaker 1: of the cheap shop that is actually still quite cool,

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Speaker 1: because why would you spend one hundred bucks on a

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Speaker 1: secondhand breast pump when you can just go down to

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Speaker 1: kmart and buy a decent one for forty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: And if that's the money I'm now getting, I may

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Speaker 1: as well just give my stuff to my friend who's

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Speaker 1: just had a baby instead of spending the admin on

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Speaker 1: collecting a little bit of money for myself. I just

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Speaker 1: wonder if, with Facebook's marketplace being free for buyers and

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Speaker 1: sellers and kmart being affordable and reasonably cool, the age

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Speaker 1: of buying other people's second hands on trade me is

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Speaker 1: coming to an end. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

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