Buy & Sell Online – New Zealand Classifieds

You hear a lot about online auction websites, however have you ever thought of buying or selling your products through online classifieds?

In the past, online auctions have lead the way in buying and selling online. However recently there has been a small change within New Zealand, in the way that buyers and sellers are looking for smaller sites to promote their services and/or products, as well as selling to a more local customer range, rather then nation or world wide.

Online classifieds offer both private sellers and businesses more options and potential customers, as most classified websites offer contact information, lists of services provided, product photos and direct links to your own website, which can also help your search engine rank.

Displayed below are New Zealand’s most popular and growing online classified websites.

Trade & Exchange – www.te.co.nz

Trade & Exchange is New Zealand’s largest online classifieds website, currently holding over 600,000 listings in a large range of categories, advanced search options, including local search/browse for private sellers and businesses. Advanced listing options and certain features, will have a fee applied.

With Trade & Exchange you can also have your classified ad featured in their local offline publications.

Happy Sheep – www.happysheep.co.nz

Happy Sheep is a free local classifieds website, focusing on 5 main regions – Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. This is still a small, but growing and promising website.

Gum Tree – www.gumtree.co.nz

Gum Tree is also a free local classifieds website, focusing on 3 main regions – Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The site features a large range of categories for products, services, jobs, real estate and wanted ads with advanced search and listing options. It currently holds some thousands of listings throughout each region.

Other free, general and growing New Zealand classified ad websites:

If you have come across an interesting and worthwhile classified website, which you believe should be added to this list, leave us a comment.

Happy listing!

This article was written by: Mike Stevens


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11 Responses to “ Buy & Sell Online – New Zealand Classifieds ”

  1. Lisa Porter - Online Classifieds says:
    May 3, 2010 at 6:45 am

    This classified advertisement is very relevant because this will help websites to easily see or find their related online sites. Thank you for having such a great directory. Best regards – Lisa

  2. nzdirectory says:
    May 3, 2010 at 9:51 am

    Hi Lisa!

    Thank you for your post and nice comment. It’s great to hear you enjoyed reading this article and use of our website!

    Cheers,

    Mike

  3. saudia arabia -al khafji classifieds says:
    July 18, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    thanx alot for great and useful info

  4. Lucian says:
    August 7, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    Hello, what about Hikiwi.co.nz? :) It’s quite new (launched in March, when you wrote this post) but we have certain ambitions. According to our estimates (based on Alexa and Google Adplanner) it is already in top 10 free classifieds websites for New Zealanders.

  5. nzdirectory says:
    August 20, 2010 at 5:32 am

    Hello Lucian,

    Thank you for your post. I have added HiKiwi to the list of general and growing New Zealand classified ad websites.

    Cheers,

    Mike

  6. Nitin says:
    September 19, 2010 at 5:41 am

    Hi Mike

    The increasing number of frauds (such as colluding) would also induce the online classifieds take a leap over the online auctions. I think people would soon start to understand the importance of “meet up and transact face-to-face” instead of “sit, relax, and bid”. In other words: a good bargain could be only a phone call away, but I don’t understand why would people still go for auctions – that make you pay more eventually, as you compete to win.

    Good article overall.

    Cheers!!

  7. nzdirectory says:
    September 21, 2010 at 5:50 am

    Hello Nitin,

    Thank you for contributing. I believe the reason that online auction sites have been so popular over the past years is that people enjoy competing and the fun of outbidding another buyer to obtain a specific item, which is a kind of ‘rush’ and it’s this interaction and feeling of having won something which plays a big part in the success of online auctions.

    Cheers,

    Mike

  8. Legal agreements says:
    February 14, 2011 at 6:15 am

    Awesome! its very informative post for me so thanks for sharing nice list keep it up guys :)

  9. Garth says:
    February 18, 2011 at 2:30 am

    Have you seen autobits.co.nz – NZ ONLINE AUTOMOTIVE CLASSIFIEDS..
    You can list anything automotive from only $1..
    And theres NO Success Fees!
    Upload up to 6 photos FREE or even upload a video..

    They always have special offers too..

  10. jon says:
    October 1, 2011 at 10:27 am

    Thanks for your info and I have added this. Nowadays online auction sites are really useful process in this fast generation.

  11. Elissa Larin says:
    October 18, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    Great info. Loved Reading your article.

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