What’s Hot On Trade Me 23 January 2008

A pleasant change in the Top Ten Hottest Products On Trade Me this week - only one bike/car makes the list. As for the the other nine slots? See for yourself (we’ve included the headline with each listing so you can see how they tried to attract bidders):
10. New TaylorMade R7 CGBMax 3-SW Graph FreeShiping $1
For [...]

Latest Pricing Changes On Property & Motors

Property Pricing Changes - selling up, renting stays the same.
The fee to list a residential, rural or commercial property on Trade Me has increased from $149 to $199, effective yesterday, 15 January. The fee to list a rental property remains at $49.
Motors pricing changes - if they go, they go up. If they don’t go, [...]

Top Searches From December 2007

What was everyone looking for on Trade Me in the lead-up to Christmas (and in the post-Christmas crush)?
All kinds of everything, but the Top 15 most-searched-for items in Trade Me for December 2007 were:
15 Harley
14 $1 reserve (new)
13 Kayak
12 Trampolines
11 Puppies
10 Louis Vuitton (new) 
9 Wedding
8 PSP
7 Transformers
6 PS3
5 Billabong
4 Unwanted (new)
3 Tents
2 Playboy clothing
1 iPod 

What’s Hot On Trade Me - 16 January 2008

Two-wheeled contrivances are in again.  We’ve come a long way since Pierre Lallement whipped up a velocipede (also known as a boneshaker) in France in 1763.
These days you can choose from utility bicycles, mountain bicycles, racing bicycles, touring bicycles, cruiser bicycles, BMX bicycles, tandems, recumbents, lowriders, tall bikes, fixed gear and folding models. And those [...]

Climb Every Mountain

As more than a few of our media darlings have pointed out (here, here, here and here, for a start), the death of “the greatest living New Zealander” has prompted an outpouring of sentiment in the form of selling off the memorabilia of our illustrious mountain-climbing legend on Trade Me.
Without commenting one way or another about the ghoulish, exploitative nature [...]

Top Of The Shops, December 2007

The numbers are in and we have a winner!
According to those fine folk at Nielsen//NetRatings and their NZ Market Intelligence research, these were the top 10 websites in the Shopping category for December 2007:

At Number 10, nzpost.co.nz/goshopping, which attracted 9,409 unique browsers across the month, looking for postage and packaging details.
Number 9, mags4gifts.co.nz, Fairfax Magazines’ subscriptions-as-Christmas-gifts [...]

What’s Hot On Trade Me w/c 6 January 2008

Another week, another Hot List. You can tell it’s summer — hot auction action includes kayaks, tents, barbeques and fish finders, as well as the usual collection of cars, gadgets & gizmos, and a surprising number of paintings. Some of the less common items amongst this week’s most popular offerings on New Zealand’s most popular site:

A [...]

List #4: The Top Movies Of 2007

The lists go on — our continuing mission, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go, yadda yadda, and also to provide guidance for Trade Me buyers and sellers in 2008. This time round, our topic is movies. Lights, cameras, action, quiet on the set, send the striking writers out of the room, it’s [...]

List #3: 100 Most Borrowed Books Of 2007

Our fixation with listing continues, this time with Auckland City Libraries’ recitation of their 100 most loaned books of the year just gone.
You can scan the whole 100 by clicking here, but we’ll save you a little time and effort by telling you what we gleaned:

All 100 titles are fiction, and almost all are popular [...]

List #2: Top Ten Book & Manuscript Sales Of 2007

Try not to salivate as we share with you a list of the top book/manuscript/printed ephemera sales of 2007, as collated by the Americana Exchange, which “tracks sales at all of the large, and many other auction houses, some 140+ in all”. Included in this list are books, manuscripts, and related ephemeral items. And all values [...]