How to Exclude Some Sellers/Stores in Trade Me Search?

thesla on 25/06/2023 - 15:01
Last edited 29/04/2024 - 15:00 by 1 other user

Just wondering if there are any tricks to filter and exclude certain seller/shop when searching in TradeMe ? I am not against any of them, it's just when looking for second-hand lego for my kids, there are a bunch of seller/shop that sell individual figurine, hundreds of them … How can I exclude those sellers ? Especially, they will always be there and it will unlikely to have good bargain ;-)

I discover recently that you can use "NOT keyword" to exclude some words in description and title.

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  • Grandma on 25/06/2023 - 15:24
    +3

    There's a user that sells phone cases as 'used' and theyre brand new and it ruins trying to find anything xiaomi on the website

    • Alan6984 on 25/06/2023 - 15:56

      There used to be a 'report this listing' option you could use (if you can be bothered).

      • limepanda on 25/06/2023 - 16:20
        +1

        One time years ago I was so frustrated that I went through and reported about 100 listings that were clearly in the wrong category's and cluttering up actual results. From memory only a couple got removed. There's just no will from TradeMe to tidy up their marketplace.

        • Alan6984 on 25/06/2023 - 17:25
          +1

          Yeah - the root cause is a lack of competition.

          TradeMe is effectively a monopoly (I'd guess they could have 80% or more market share in NZ - I might be wrong though).

      • Grandma on 26/06/2023 - 10:17
        +1

        Ive done it a few times and even left q&a answers politely pointing out that the items are in the wrong categorization. No change

        • Alan6984 on 26/06/2023 - 10:27
          +1

          Yeah - I would say that, to have any chance of them changing it, you'd have to report to TM, rather than just point it out to the vendor, since the vendor has chosen the category.

          Probably pointless though, as noted above.

  • Dunno on 25/06/2023 - 16:01
    +1

    This might be helpful if the seller has their name in the listing to exclude them from your searches. No way to blacklist an account to stop seeing the listings.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/qrh6ig/comment/…

    • Alan6984 on 25/06/2023 - 16:17
      +1

      Interesting that you can't - I would have thought a blacklist would be a basic option, but in twenty years I've never noticed the omission (or perhaps it used to be available and is no longer).

      • Dunno on 25/06/2023 - 16:37

        They have a blacklist for sellers(block specific people bidding or asking questions on your listing)

  • Huntakillaz on 25/06/2023 - 17:16
    +1

    Unfortunately trade me lacks a lot of modern features, they even stopped adding new categories.

    Like most things once a big company buys it innovation stops and just the basic/bare minimum is done to keep it going along with a ui update every 5yrs to make it look like they doing stuff

  • thesla on 25/06/2023 - 20:22
    +2

    I am trying bidbud.co.nz as mentioned in the reddit thread above. It has the feature to exclude Seller ! It's just a bit weird to have a third party accessing you trademe account so I created an empty one … Anybody know this bidbud website ?

    • CheapAzChips on 25/06/2023 - 22:13
      +2

      Bidbud has been around for years and is definitely trustworthy, in fact while the site is perhaps not endorsed by TM it's certainly allowed by them as it uses their API with their authority. BidBud is free, and is so good, in fact, that many people use it as their main interaction with the site.

      When you log into Bidbud, they do not get your TM login details, you are actually only ever logging into TradeMe and then authorising BidBud to act on your behalf. It's very safe.

      BidBud has other useful tools: auction sniping being their biggest feature, but also a bad feedback checker, far better search capability, automated group/multi buys, and much, much more. Did I mention it's totally free?

      • thesla on 25/06/2023 - 22:21

        I had a try at it is so awesome !!! This going to make my cheapie life so much more efficient !!!!

        How do they earn money ???

      • ace310 on 26/06/2023 - 09:25

        Thanks, I am going to try that. Didn't knew about it.

      • bigcheese on 26/06/2023 - 09:38

        That’s looks really useful.
        Thanks.

  • xsolider on 26/06/2023 - 10:42

    Just tried, unfortunately there's no phone app for it, which means no easy way to save "recent searches" which I use a lot.

    • xsolider on 26/06/2023 - 10:50

      Ok, they allow you to save the search as favourites which is an alternative.

      • thesla on 26/06/2023 - 20:03
        +1

        It can save the search and also the results ! Which means that it can tell you what changed since last time you search rather going through the list and remember which listing you already saw last time !!!

  • xsolider on 27/06/2023 - 11:41

    Guys, I was just trying to test this method on bidbud. Blacklisted a seller, but his listings still turn up in my search results. Did I miss something? Please note that it was just for testing purposes, I was not against this particular seller.

    https://ibb.co/0Bf7VGL

    • xsolider on 27/06/2023 - 11:46

      NVM, it looks like it would take a few minutes for the change to take effect. The listings have disappeared now.

  • Martz5 on 29/04/2024 - 14:25

    Sorry to hijack an old thread - i'm looking for advice on how to best list and sell multiple items on Trademe. Have come across Bidbud as well as the Trademe feature 'My Products'. I will only ever have 1 quantity of a product but may have multiple listings on the go. Which would be easiest/better to use?
    Hopefully something that will allow me to bulk auto relist everything when closed without selling and/or manage listings easily on a mobile device.
    Would appreciate any feedback/suggestions - thanks!

    • mr-deal on 29/04/2024 - 14:29

      AFAIK, just My Products - but I don't know how good it would look on Mobile (as it is a website and not an App).

      You can effectively set up listings and forget them until they sell though as it will auto-relist.

    • Huntakillaz on 29/04/2024 - 14:38

      With MyProducts you can setup 1 listing and then clone the listing and make more of the same and then modify it to suit

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