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What would be the minimum amount to have in your Trademe account when
selling items? If said items don't go over $100.

What do others use as their balances?

Told ya it was a dumb question

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:59:00 +1300, Flintstone
<> magnanimously proffered:

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>What would be the minimum amount to have in your Trademe account when
>selling items? If said items don't go over $100.
>
>What do others use as their balances?
>
>Told ya it was a dumb question

Well this may be a dumb answer

I mostly buy and only do a little selling ... mostly vintage watches.
The reserve & winning bids are almost always *over* the 100 dollar
mark. But I've never kept more than $50 in my account to cover the
listing and success fees, and have let the balance go down to around
eight dollars before topping it up again.

Flintstone wrote:
>
> What would be the minimum amount to have in your Trademe account when
> selling items? If said items don't go over $100.
>
> What do others use as their balances?
>
> Told ya it was a dumb question

I take it up to $10 or so, list everything and then it goes way into
debt when they sell, then I usually leave it till I need to sell again,
but this time they stopped me bidding after a few weeks to I topped it
up to get it just out of debt. No point leaving my money with them
earning them interest instead of me.

Richard wrote:
> Flintstone wrote:
>>
>> What would be the minimum amount to have in your Trademe account when
>> selling items? If said items don't go over $100.
>>
>> What do others use as their balances?
>>
>> Told ya it was a dumb question
>
> I take it up to $10 or so, list everything and then it goes way into
> debt when they sell, then I usually leave it till I need to sell again,
> but this time they stopped me bidding after a few weeks to I topped it
> up to get it just out of debt. No point leaving my money with them
> earning them interest instead of me.

Yep, I had $2 odd for months and month, then sold something for a few
hundred and went overdrawn, I just added another $10...so have just a
few Dollars....

regards

Thing