For me it’s all a bit “big brother” on eBay now..
and other online sites too.
no cash on collection means I don’t buy larger items due to extortionate shipping costs.
smaller items are on Amazon and here next day
small items on eBay are more expensive and take longer to get here due to eBay’s crippling costs on small businesses.
orivate sellers now have a 30 sale limit before being “dobbed in to the HMRC” under a thinly veiled lie about protecting small businesses.
i would sell my old stuff, maybe 100 listings a year and that money would stay in PayPal to buy other goods on the ebay platform. Probably about £800-£1200 of sales.
this would now see me likely having to fill in a tax return form etc even though I’m actually under the threshold for selling my old stuff.. but how do I prove I’m not a small business? I don’t have receipts for all my old stuff?? Do you?
Vinted is the same of course.
i should be able to sell my old goods free of big brother but im guilty until proven innocent in the tax man’s eyes. Dramatic I know but I just don’t need the headache so my old stuff now goes to landfill.
ebay was set up to sell our old stuff etc? Recycling is good for the planet blah blah
even the smallest inconvenience will see use decline.
dont get me started on managed payments either.. some people are fine with this but ebay is full of chancers and scammers and any small seller will agree with that. I’m suppose to give ebay access to my bank without PayPal as a security buffer? Nope! I don’t think so.
i don’t need someone in an Indian call centre telling me I’m wrong and they’ve helped themselves.
when eBay stayed the seller and the buyer managed the payments between them and eBay charged a small listing fee.
it worked and became huge!
Paypal was added to sell internationally and it worked.. eBay got even bigger.
since then it’s been all downhill for the user.
proffits are controlled but eBay just doesn’t have the market on the UK as it did and soon it will be pointless. Just how HMRC wants it so you go to the high street and stay poor.
a few eBay staff saying all is good and we are wrong on these types of threads but the numbers of users in decline speaks for itself. Plus how many purchases per user are there now compared to 2018? And how much is spent per user?
second hand sales by private sellers are all but over, small items are where Amazon thrives and the rest is destroyed by no cash on collection etc
paypal removal was another nail
ebay.. reform of you’re finished
bandages on the wounds only helps for so long if you keep hurting yourself. Soon you’ll be gone forever.
