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HMRC exemption certificat for VAT - Sole Trader under £85 000
Hello, eBay restricted my sale, preventing me to put anything on sale, as they ask me a UK VAT registration number. That said, I am a sole trader, and my yearly turnover is under £85 000, meaning that I have not to enroll to the VAT program. I did ri...
Watch list items
When my watch list items end they disappear, very frustrating as i cant see how much they sell for
Resolved! Massive drop in sales
We sell on both the main platforms and mostly they would be level in terms of sales , until a couple of months ago , when ebay sales just fell off a cliff , I had to check that our listings were still there . Has anything bizarre happened ? Anyone el...
Bugs Bugs Bugs
Seem to be encountering lots of bugs the past few days.Examples - try to refund excess postage paid to a buyer on the screen where you select a reason it says "Page did not load, lets try that again." Sending a buyer an offer from a message it just c...
Fraudulent returns
So in the last couple of months I sold quite a lot of phones and I had a small supply of brand new sealed phones. With these, I've had a nightmare on eBay. Some of them were bought by genuine buyers but around half were by fraudulent buyers. They wou...
VAT Deregistration
My rolling 12 month sales total is well under £80K and I want to deregister. I have been watching this board for some time now and noted how some have had accounts suspended or even deleted over this. I would obviously rather continue paying vat if d...
Stuck at MC Centre, what should I do?
Buyer has raised a case stating item has not arrived posted Tracked48 (see tracking advising this below), I've been to the post office who are stumped as no reason stated. Desperately trying to contact Royal Mail but it's impossible, I've raised a cl...
De registration of VAT
We are having a issue with de registration of vat on our eBay account. We have provided the information of deregistration from HMRC. This has been forwarded several times now. E bay are asking for a exemption letter from HMRC which we believe does no...
Why am I getting pressured to change from private seller to buisness
I am disabled, I sell on average less than ten items a month. No set particular item as most surplus to my requirements or I have bought and decided to sell on for a small profit ie a second hand item etc.I haven't had any issues since I came to ebay...
Blocked by a Seller
Hi all. I am disabled and have ti get my Carer to pick up my ebay items I buy from local click and collect store.I missed a old Piece of glass by Greener and asked Seller if relisting. He/She said yes, and would put in on for £24 but as Buy it now.Wh...
‘Empty box’ return
Today I received a return. Item sold, iPhone 15 pro, brand new and sealed. The reason for returning was that the phone doesn't switch on at all. When I received the return, the package contained a packet of wipes and 3 batteries, I assume to help mak...
non payment/part payment
Looking for some advice. Someone bought an old van off me and paid a deposit and said they'd come and pick it up and pay the rest on collection. That was last year. I recieved a message last December saying could i wait a while for pick up. I agreed,...
How are the clothes going folks?
Got a few vintage items - being an old git - But thinking about the effort need to list clothes and the cost of postage & packing is putting me off listing them. Esp now it seems the warmer weather is here and I could be out in the garden. Can you co...
Why is percentage of buyers leaving feedback so low
last month was a very bad month for sales and as a result I was able to get any sold items sent out very quickly and improved my handling time I expected that I'd get some very positive feedback as a result but out of 35 parcels sent out some next da...
ebay countdown clock wrong
hello A few times in the past week i have noticed the ebay count down claims to be for example 18.29 and is counting down from a reasonably fresh search, but the atomic clock is 18.30. And so the buyer waits for the last 10 seconds or so to bid, but ...
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