Here is just about the coolest thing I have seen so far on TradeMe:

I want it! (Admittedly, Bartleby’s Starry Night is probably cooler.)

$20 plus postage though. What happened to $1 no reserve?

The problem with TradeMe has two forms.

1. There is never any good stuff. For example, try searching SJD, The Phoenix Foundation or Poster Milla Jovovich.
2. On the rare occasion there is good stuff, it costs bloody heaps. Either the sellers price is crazy, some idiot bids far too high, or both.
3. Bonus problem: at the end of an auction, there is so much fucking around with emailing and addresses and paying to bank accounts. When I win the auction, all that hassle should be replaced by absolutely nothing. There is no reason all of that can’t happen automatically. TradeMe are opening themselves right up to competition on this front. Remember, user experience is the new black.

So after a brief splurge of online action, I think The Warehouse will regain its crown of place that I shop at. (Even with its awful new logo. I mean, did they spend 3 minutes in Microsoft Paint? The old one may have been ugly but it was distinctive and representative, as a good logo should be. Compare the new one, which was more like “Hey! Arial! What an awesome font!”)