Trade Me’s $30 Billion classified businesses

Over at Fairfax columnist and mate Mod O’Donnell* writes that last year there were 782,000 changes of registration for cars, and that 58% were private to private sales. If you are going to buy a car privately these days, there is really only one place to shop: Trade Me Motors. (Please let me know if I am …

AirNZ auctions themselves to the lowest bidder

Once again Air New Zealand has not partnered with Trade Me for their annual charity auction. As I’ve said before this myopic decision decreases the amount of publicity, revenue and mojo Air NZ receives from the event. Auctions will sell for less, less people will se them and the brand association with Sella cheapens the …