legislation by definition, is a set of rules laid out in parliament that eventually (mostly) leads to law. Legislation therefore is not necessarily law.
you clearly haven't read my post. At no point did I argue about the contents of the eBay user agreement. I said 'Irrespective of whatever is in the agreement......'
You are missing the point of this thread, seemingly blinded by the user agreement and what ever constitutes law or legislation.
Put simply, eBay ARE withholding sellers funds and using it to coerce sellers to provide their NI number. Fact.
Perhaps a better, nicer approach would have been to suspend everyones selling account until they provided the information. Sellers could then make an informed choice without having any financial loss via coercion. EBay would probably have lost too much business in that scenario so that is probably why it was nt rolled out that way.
The government have now acknowledged that perhaps the £1000 threshold was a tad low and have agreed to raise it to £3000. But not just yet...... watch this space
