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Kōrero: Second-hand trade

Trade Me homepage, 1999

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Trade Me homepage, 1999

In the 2000s Trade Me was regularly the most visited website in New Zealand. Second-hand goods were an important part of its business – in 2009, 52% of items listed and 60% of items sold on the site (excluding cars and property) were second hand. Though there were a number of other online trading sites, none came close to replicating Trade Me’s visitor numbers. This is the first Trade Me homepage, when it started in 1999.

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Trade Me

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Kerryn Pollock rāua ko Bronwyn Labrum, Second-hand trade – Online trading, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24959/trade-me-homepage-1999 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock rāua ko Bronwyn Labrum, i tāngia i te 23 February 2010.