TradeMe continues to devise clever ways to dissuade me from using TradeMe. I received the following carefully coded email this morning: I say "coded" because the best I can figure is that "getting paid for shipping" means "receiving payment for the goods I've sold".
https://graph.org/A-safer-simpler-way-to-get-paid-for-shipping-is-here-08-31
It seems there are no longer bank transfers, which were alays my preferred payment method, and now all money has to sit in my TradeMe account earning interest for TradeMe.
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