So nice to live in a liberal country where a politician marrying his boyfriend (civil union) is essentially non-news…. On the downside, professional incomes are very low – here is a job requiring an MBA that pays just $75,000, or USD$51,000. (It’s nice that Trade Me Jobs shows the salary – it really helps identify …
Category Archives: Trade Me
shill bidding on eBay
Shill bidding on eBay is, anecdotally at least, a big problem. eBay’s recent decision to hide the ID’s of other bidders has not helped the community policing. Slashdot has some interesting comments on the issue – including one chap that has the following advice: 1) Never bid on camcorders, computers, automobiles, or any other high …
NZ online traffic rankings from alexa….
Very cool summary of NZ site rankings from Projectx, or you can just look at the laest results on Alexa 1: Trade Me isn’t that far behind Google. In the USA eBay is number 5 after Yahoo!, Google, Myspace and MSN. 2: 6Park is bigger than Skykiwi, which was news to me. It has all …
Real Estate online
Bid4Assets is bragging that they sold $239m in California real estate online since 2000, and $40m in 2006 alone. gee – right now there are 27,930 residential properties listed on Trade Me. At an average price of $300,000 per house that’s $8.379 billion worth of real estate listings. Kinda makes that US$239m in 6 years …
Google checkout – aggressive promotions
Google express is aggressively recruiting buyers: Sign up and get US$10 free – which you can spend on anything (excluding post and packaging) from some pretty major retailers – including Buy.com and Toysrus.com. Meanwhile retailers get free processing unti lte end of this year. This is exactly what the wannabe online payments players in New …
mmmmm….
via Stuff – Sam Morgan…. “If you are seeking a chief executive for a company like Telecom, chucking an ad up on Trade Me Jobs is not going to be the sole thing you’ll want to do”…
Wiki on Trade Me
Codswollops. I cannot comment on this as I’m an insider but not a spokesperson. Apply a bit of common sense to these statements though….. (and no – I’m not going to edit them) (From Wikipedia – TradeMe) Fraud and controversy …In recent times, TradeMe has not in all cases helped out victims of fraud. …. …
NZHerald ads
Some ads are back – there is a Microsoft one (that’s smart enough to know I’m on a mac) served up by http://ads.apn.co.nz/ADCLICK/CID=xxx – which is not the former doubleclick method. There is also a super slow Sorted ad – served by http://secure-nz.imrworldwide.com/xxx, which is Neilsen. The ad appears quickly enough, but clicking on the …
Stuff ads
Well – perhaps there is just no advertising money out there at this time of year. Stuff has esentially no advertising showing. Maybe NZHerald is in the same situation, and is using Google ads as a backup plan. Good show if so. Trade Me, meanwhile, looks to have a full complement of ads, as does …
on counting correctly
Realestate.co.nz state on their homepage that they are “featuring over 75,000 properties”. Actually, if you add up the listings, they have just 71,522. Seek.co.nz state on their homepage that they have “12,242 jobs online”. Actually if you hit the search button they show just 11,836 jobs. Search4jobs.co.nz show 6,586 jobs if you hit the search …
NZShop economics
Here’s a tilt at NZShop’s financial’s, based on essentially no information. My last order confirmation number from NZShop was over 62000. If this is the total number of orders ever, and the average sales price is $50 (they seem to be all about DVDs), then that’s a total of $3.1m in sales (Say a reasonable …
Retail sales in NZ
Retail sales in NZ have been quoted a few times as $60bn NZD. Let’s dig into that a little. The latest stats from Govt.stats.nz show $60.5 bn for the year to the September quarter, 2006. The big spends are $13bn in supermarket, groceries and produce, $5.8bn in fuel and $7.8bn in motor vehicle retailing. If …
NZ Online retail – the market
Some interesting comments on the previous posts – worth a look at. I’ll redo some numbers in a while, but in the meantime here are some charts… This is daily unique domestic browsers to the big online shopping sites. (except Gameplanet sorry, which I inadvertently left off). The point of the chart is to show …
why “ecommerce has flopped in NZ”
That article again – right at the bottom, from out of nowhere, come “five reasons ecommerce has flopped in New Zealand”. “1. Mall mania. Trips to the shopping centre are a top Kiwi recreation. 2. Security fears. Kiwis are paranoid about giving credit card numbers online. 3. Bargain hunting. If it’s not cheaper online, why …
Ferrit. Incompetent #2
The Herald’s coverage of eCommerce leaves something to be desired – imagine surveying NZ’s eCommerce space and forgetting the biggest site is Trade Me, not, umm, Ferrit. Perhaps Peter Griffin is a columnist shilling for Ferrit… regardless – we should blame him, as well as the NZHerald editors, and give kudos for whoever did the …
Lance Wiggs 