dub3 card · www.trademe.co.nz
TradeMe (1999)
Y2K compliant.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Each round end: +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 1999
New Zealand's largest online auction and classified ads site, in the mould of eBay.
Sam Morgan started it in 1999 and sold it to Fairfax for NZ$700 million in 2006. Apax Partners bought it for NZ$2.56 billion in 2019. By 2021 it claimed 5 million members in a country of 5.3 million.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run TradeMe, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want TradeMe in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
