TM mandating Ping payment option

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Response came in, the seller offers me a buy now, but no explanation of the service fee thing. Maybe they don't know?

Which is weird...

The seller is probably unaware of the service fee. One thing that has become very apparent to me from the recent TM Community activity on the Ping issue is that the functionality of the platform is rubbish. I'm getting constant emails about comments being left on that thread but the link back into the 'forum' takes me to some random place in the thread rather than to the comment that was placed. Trade Me's IT seems to be 'nailed together' and definitely no somewhere buyers should be happy to pay even more for TM's dodgy payment system.