300 listings per month for private sellers it is very bad as I am a Pensioner

[bumblebeecrafts-2008]

I am a pensioner and since my husband past I have been using nearly all of 1000 listings per month as I am trying to sell things  (down sizing) to try & help make life a bit more viable with the cost of everything nowadays. It is a huge reduction for  private sellers 1000 down to only 300 per month. Good for businesses less competition. I spoke to an ebay agent on the telephone and complained about it and was told it has brought us into line with Europe.  Doesn't ebay know we are no longer in the EU so that arguement  falls flat on its face.

I am hardly selling many items anymore because of this so, I will look at other sites to sell on . Ebay I have been with you for over 16 years shame on you.

[*vyolla*]

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@vintique*violet wrote:

I'm certainly thinking in the real world and just pointing out the math here - it's not 300 free listings per month. Listings can be carried over to in one month you can have 300 then, potentially, 600, then 900 etc. 

As a private seller I only have 300 listings allocated per month and according to my overview- there is no rollover, therefore it does not accumulate.  

The message actually says "get up to 300 free listings per month"  

Over the 300 a month a charge of 35p per listing applies. 

I have never needed to do that as I am well below the 300 a month. 

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I don't know how to explain this any better, this has already been discussed so much - if you have fixed price Buy It Now listings then they'll carry over and won't be part of the next months 300 free listings. Ergo, you'll have another 300 free listings on top of any that have carried over.

This works the same for auto relist auctions (not ones that are manually relisted though). If your auction doesn't end up with a winning bidder and it's set to automatically relist (up to 8 times) then that listing too will be carried over and won't count towards the next 300 free listings. 

Taken from eBay's guidance page for fees for private sellers:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/fees-private-sellers?id=4822&st=3&pos=1&qu...

[vintique*violet]

Thank you for the information... I have mine set not to relist - I do it manually , so I suppose upon reading this, if I allow eBay to relist then it does not count and can rollover... so agreed it can be potentially far more than the 300 ( advantageous for the rogue private business sellers) - However, it is not an advantage to me, as I do not have 300 items to list, even when we move I expect it only to be perhaps 50 or 60 items once the loft is cleared and the old tools etc from the shed. 

Interesting encouraging 300 listings when selling more than 30 per annum HMRC want reports...

10% rule maybe? 

Thank you again. 

[johnwash1]

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@*vyolla* wrote:

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Great that you have listings that sell after a couple of years, I personally feel that if something on my private account doesn't sell after 6 months then it's clogging up the site and I either bundle it with similar items, and if that doesn't sell I give it to charity. 

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You're misunderstanding the difference between a computerised system and the real world.  If you were talking about an auction house, of course it would be horribly clogged if it had the same almost unsellable items appearing month after month.

But sites such as ebay have SEARCH.  I have lots of peculiar items that have been relisting for years.  But they don't 'clog' the site.  When you're looking for your collectible coin or your kitchen implement you don't see any of my items, they don't diminish your experience as a buyer.

Yes, sometimes I do think "Gosh, I've been relisting those for years, time to bin them".  And the following week some weirdo buys a 1980s modem or a 2-button PS/2 mouse.  I'm allowed to call them weirdos,  I'm one myself.  So I rarely bin my items and I feel no guilt about my use of the site.  Indeed, I think these kind of unusual items from peculiar sellers bring more traffic to the site.

[papso22]

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@lucy_farmer wrote:

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'I am waiting for HMRC to pounce because i sell for my family....'

I hate to say I think you're right 😒. I'm pretty sure that HMRC will go for the easy targets ; as Vyolla said up there^^ they'll go for the soft targets not the big boys.

Us 'soft targets' don't have accountants and lawyers and money to deal with challenging HMRC and most of us don't have a deep intellectual grasp of how the tax system works. So we can easily be scared ***less.

Silly really; whatever the 'little people' are deemed to owe, wouldn't touch the sides of the 'national debt' or whatever. Whilst bringing down a 'big boy' or two would be enough to keep all pensioners homes heated over the winter....

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I don't think they will go for the 'easy targets', as there is not enough money in them.  Each case, regardless of size, requires the same resource and every seller that HMRC says owes tax has the right of appeal.  They can't afford to tie up resources where there isn't a lot of tax due, but that doesn't mean they won't run a campaign to get information from smaller sellers. 

They are resourced according to risk and the extra staff taken on will have to be justified in terms of £ results, so 

[kath3735_wxmjn]

The majority of my stuff is clothes and sometimes it does take years to sell but i do not care, it is there and one day someone may just want that item.  I had a suit that was on for at least two years and i sold it a couple of months ago, better than giving it to a charity shop or flogging it on the car boot for a fiver!   What is clogging up the site are the sellers who put 50 of the same item on with only a word different or 1p difference.  I was trying to buy a skirt for myself a few weeks ago and i gave up, even with specific brand, size and colour i got the same cheap chinese tat for the first 5 pages, i also put used down and still these new items came up.  That is down to E Bay.  They have lost a number of sales from me because i just cannot be bothered searching.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

probably all working from home as well or will be on strike when they start investigating.

[lucy_farmer]

'......got the same cheap chinese tat for the first 5 pages,.....'

Try going 'nearest first' on the filter... often helps weed out the Chinese tat.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

Thanks for the tip, never actually thought of that.