Announcements

Important info and updates about using the site.

2025

Our latest announcements from 2025

Announcement
We’re making some updates to our Privacy Policy

Our updated Privacy Policy will come into effect on Wednesday 1 October 2025.

17 September 2025

Announcement
Pricing change for Portable Cabins and Tiny Homes

From 1 October, we are updating the pricing model for our Portable Cabins and Tiny Homes category.

1 September 2025

Announcement
Email delays - 19 August 2025

There was an issue that caused a delay with some emails today.

19 August 2025

Announcement
Book a courier - Aramex outage 7 August

Aramex will be unavailable via Book a courier from 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm on Thursday 7 August.

5 August 2025

Announcement
Book a courier – Aramex rates adjustment 4 August 2025

Our rates are changing for Aramex options within 'Book a courier'.

28 July 2025

2024

Important info and updates about using the site.

Announcement
Trade Me Messages feature retiring

As we announced on 3 December, the message feature within Trade Me is no longer available.

3 December 2024

Announcement
Services fee change - 15 December 2024

Trade Me Services listing fees are increasing from 15 December 2024.

29 November 2024

Announcement
Confirmation of Payee bank changes

From the end of November 2024, the Confirmation of Payee service will be phased in by banks.

26 November 2024

Announcement
Ping price adjustment - 2 December 2024

As we announced on 1 November 2024, this change came into effect on 2 December 2024.

1 November 2024

Announcement
Scheduled site maintenance: 23 October 2024

Trade Me will be unavailable between 01:00am and 02:00am for site maintenance on Wednesday 23 October 2024.

21 October 2024

2023

Important info and updates about using the site.

Announcement
Search errors - 9 November 2023

Searches were out of action for a bit this morning.

9 November 2023

Announcement
Site errors - 9 November 2023

Oops. Our site was down briefly this morning but things are back up and running now.

9 November 2023

Announcement
We’re updating our Privacy Policy

As we announced on 10 October 2023, our new Privacy Policy came into effect on 24 October 2023.

10 October 2023

Announcement
Pricing changes for in-trade sellers - 28 August 2023

As we announced on 28 August 2023, this change came into effect on 1 October 2023.

28 August 2023

Announcement
Scheduled outage for Aramex – Sunday 6 August 2023

Aramex are doing some scheduled site maintenance between 12:00 am and 12:00 pm on Sunday, 6 August.

4 August 2023

2022

Important info and updates about using the site.

Announcement
Scheduled site maintenance: 20 December

Our team are doing some scheduled site maintenance between 01:00am and 01:30am on Tuesday, 20 December.

13 December 2022

Announcement
Site outage - 1 Dec 2022

Whoops our site was out of action there for a bit.

1 December 2022

News
Site errors - 22 October, 2022

Searches on our site are currently out of action.

22 October 2022

Announcement
Site errors - 12 October, 2022

Our site was out of action for a bit this afternoon.

12 October 2022

Announcement
We've made a small change to our terms and conditions

We're letting you know that we are no longer watermarking images with our site logo.

11 October 2022