Where are the Trade Me buyers?

[gr8dadof2]

as someone who used to buy a lot from TM i find too much new stuff, foreign sellers and bulk items.
Facebook marketplace is ok but theres a lot of flaky buyers out there

Trade me is good if you know what you are looking for. I have found the search not too bad for what I am looking for anyway. If you are just browsing then yes it can be a pain in the butt and who's going to buy just a regular pen from an international seller with $120 freight (slight exaggeration but many prices ARE ridiculous) so I agree the place is too full of foreigners, I avoid them like the plague. They must be thick some of them because you can buy the same item from a NZ shop for a 1/4 of the price, don't they do price checking within TM? They cant compete and I guess the stupid people who buy from them justifies their being there. The problem with facebook is it doesn't have near the same amount of security that TM has, but if you don't mind not being able to return your faulty item, then by all means use them. Sorry my bit of a rant over lol