12-12-2022, 03:16 PM
I'm supporting a charity shop, and managing their Trademe account, we already had very cheap priced items, but can't really go much lower, and I don't think that is really the answer. What I see from TM's site stats and our own stats is that there just isn't much exposure to the public anymore, we have plentiful auctions with zero views, and the amount of people logged in to Trademe at any time of the day is giving me that impression. It tells me that people are shopping elsewhere these days or not at all, Facebook perhaps? Don't really know, even though we're also selling on FB marketplace, but are getting next to no clicks on our items also, it could be the FB algorithm is negatively impacting our listings for some reason, which will always be denied if we ask or the same as Trademe, no people around.
So it's difficult to compare Trademe with Facebook at this point because it might be two unrelated reasons, but for sure the buying habits of kiwis has drastically changed in the past 6 months, and I don't believe most people are in that much of a tight spot financially wise, because I've seen many people spend upwards of $500 on a shopping trip to Costco, some even over a $1000, and they didn't appear to be super rich people. But it could be that people are easily influenced by watching the news about the coming "the economic collapse" that they're making more thoughtful decisions with their purchases, which is not a bad thing but, wasting it on chips and muffins at Costco's might not be that wise.
Anyway, I just wish people would support the smaller businesses, sole traders, and non-profits rather than the same old same old big box stores.
So it's difficult to compare Trademe with Facebook at this point because it might be two unrelated reasons, but for sure the buying habits of kiwis has drastically changed in the past 6 months, and I don't believe most people are in that much of a tight spot financially wise, because I've seen many people spend upwards of $500 on a shopping trip to Costco, some even over a $1000, and they didn't appear to be super rich people. But it could be that people are easily influenced by watching the news about the coming "the economic collapse" that they're making more thoughtful decisions with their purchases, which is not a bad thing but, wasting it on chips and muffins at Costco's might not be that wise.
Anyway, I just wish people would support the smaller businesses, sole traders, and non-profits rather than the same old same old big box stores.