Archive for May, 2009

OMINS auto-extend: the easy way to increase exposure of your auctions

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

A great way to increase exposure of your auctions on Trade Me is to utilize the OMINS auto-extend feature.  Auto-extend keeps your auctions in a perpetual state of "closing soon", which means they will show higher in the categories than your competitors.  OMINS has supported this feature (which can be ...

The fastest sites in New Zealand (yes, we’re in there!)

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

ProjectX have published an interesting post about how well optimised New Zealand's most popular websites are: The bragging rights for NZ’s fastest webpage does not belong to Trade Me but to Land Transport at #1 and Canterbury University at #2. (Although Trade Me dominate the Top 10). The key takeaway from this ...

The price is right, regardless of the postage

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Test auctions on eBay showed that most people prefer to pay a low price for an item and also pay postage than pay a higher price and get free postage, even when the former added up to more than the latter. A CD for $5+$6 postage is preferred to a CD for ...