https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Buying/just-bought-on-eBay-and-I-saw-suddenly-a-UK-VAT-added-to-price/m-p/6857566#M14685 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/43999">@laugb2001</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>Hi,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>thanks for the info and I found it and it says Germany!!!&nbsp;</P><P>How come I check he is based on his feedback page that he is UK</P><UL><LI><SPAN>Member since: 09-Oct-01 in United Kingdom</SPAN></LI></UL><P>and then where you told me I found this:&nbsp;<SPAN>Member since 09-Oct-01 in Germany</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is this legal? The selling page was not mentioning anything about Germany and I would have been careful if I had known he was in Germany as I am used to deal with transaction abroad and so aware of the changes on 1st January. <STRONG>Is he playing both places to claim more money? Can this be reported to eBay and can they do anything about it?</STRONG></P><P>thanks&nbsp;</P><P>Lau</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>If the listing states that the item location is Reading in England but the seller's profile says something like "Based in Germany, this seller has been a member since 9th October 2001" then you could use the Report option on the listing, making sure that you select the option to draw attention to the fact that the seller is providing misleading information as to the location of the item.&nbsp; If the item was located in England then the seller would have to be using a fulfillment centre to send the goods out once the order was placed.&nbsp; A lot of Chinese sellers do this - if you scroll right down the page the business details often give their address as being somewhere such as China or Hong Kong, whereas the item location will often say something like "Portsmouth" instead.&nbsp; In some cases the item is despatched from the UK, even though the seller is based outside the UK, although in some cases the listing gives a misleading impression that the item is located within the UK and once you buy the item from the sale he/she then posts it to your address from a the country that he/she is actually located in, the end result being that you then have to pay Customs charges when the item arrives in the UK!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>One other option is that this may be a case of a private seller based in Germany using several eBay sites to advertise his/her items for sale.&nbsp; If the item was really being listed for sale by a seller who lives in the UK and the item really was located in the UK then there shouldn't be any extra VAT to pay on the listing, as the item wouldn't be subject to import duties in the first place.</P> Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:34:15 GMT m25jet 2021-01-24T15:34:15Z