Trade Me User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience20.9% of reviews
Neutral10.2% of reviews
Negative experience68.9% of reviews

~ Based on 411 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Trade Me Safe?

Trade Me: Property, Jobs, Shop appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Trade Me is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 300 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 300 App Store ratings for Trade Me.

Is Trade Me Legit?

Trade Me: Property, Jobs, Shop appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Trade Me is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Bad update

Scarf kiwi update has made it impossible to use the app for more than a few minutes. Listings stop loading and the app needs to be hard reset before it’ll work again.

Property map doesn’t work properly

The map loads once zoomed in and you can click on one property to view but when you go back then the screen doesn’t work. Then same happens each time you look at a property

Map search glitch

When looking at map for properties, the app glitches after looking at a search and trying to navigate back to the map.

If you can't log in...

I've been trying to troubleshoot logging in to my power pass
iPhone app with no success. We've even gone as far as resetting the account and receiving a new card.

But what fixed it in the end was actually the time setting! My time setting was set to manual, and when I change it to automatic with a slight adjustment of a couple of minutes, it fixed my problem!

I hope this tip helps other users.
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Cheap

Feels so cheap being basically a clunky website wrapped up as an app.
Previous native apps were so much better.

Update

Just updated on iphone and its horrendous what they’ve done to display settings

Can’t see options

Not enough contrast to see menu items on iPhone. A pain

Numerous ongoing issues with Trademe on iPhone

Months and months of freezing issues. Can browse listings for about 1 minute at a time before it locks up and you have to force close the app. I can’t even get through listing an item without it freezing up. I now use TradeMe in a browser instead. I keep seeing updates but they haven’t fixed it. I’ve had 2 different phones with these issues. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app which does temporarily fix it so I wonder if the problem is with the cached data in the app.
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Not great

Have a lot of issues with the app

Terrible

Real bad

Kiwi barter

Sell anything

Timer countdown has been removed

Very hard to tell when an auction is ending without bid countdown

Dreadful app, glitchy, maddening

Sometimes I can keep it going for long enough to watch list an item or change a detail in a listing. Terrible app. No points.

Photos

Hi. As of today, I am unable to upload photos to sell an item. Is this from your end?

Scam

Scam

Stops loading?

This app has been pretty terrible for at least the past 6 months - after 5 minutes of use it just stops loading. You can’t click into a listing, load new listings etc. Very poor usability. Hope to see this fixed.

Great shopping app

Been a member for ages and will continue to be.

Can you please change the Won tab so I can prevent some of my winning trades from being purged, like using a pin for example.
Rest of the app is good

Conditional offers

The app is great, I just wish it would include an option to make offers pending a pre-purchase inspection result

Freeze

You've cut server costs. The app is so slow now. How do you expect to grow revenue if peoples ability to browse has lag or freezes. No I don't need app support.

Log in

It keeps logging me off on different devices!