FUNDS HELD NEW EBAY POLICY! CLOSING ACCOUNT AFTER 19 YEARS!

[tricia-o]

Im absolutely furious! Ebay have changed their policy and are now refusing to pay monies (which belong to the buyer) until the item has been posted and received!!

I have been selling on Ebay for 19 years and this is how we are being treated?

I will NOT pack and post my valuable antiques until I have been paid! I have never heard anything so ridiculous! Can we not be trusted? Shame on you Ebay! You are the loser here! I have now cancelled all sales and 67 listings and I will find another platform to sell my antiques with someone that values me!!

[jow1995]

You can always try a local auction house, but the fees can be as much as 27%

[simishoostore]

I pay business fees, I just don't have a subscribed shop front with ebay, I am not a LTD company andd also I haven't earned £100 in 10 months. The rason I look like a business is that I have made it look that way from a marketing point of view to try and start a business which isn't being successful. I would get VAT registered but I am not required to do that at the moment so I haven't, if it does take off I will, the reason why I have multiple options is that I do print on demand and that is free to do as well, I can link it to my website for free. Like I said there is no harm trying to do it; as of yet its not been worth it. It looks fancy but really its far from it.

[papso22]

You make items to sell and you have your own website, they are markers of being a business.  You don't have to be a LTD co to be a business, or be VAT registered.

Unsuccessful businesses are still businesses.

[simishoostore]

I don't sell any stock, I don't buy Items unless I sell. I don't stock anything and don't even own all of my own one bedroom home. If I could afford to buy stock I would do as you have said. The companies I design for make the items I design and ship them, it is print on demand, holding or buying stock is not involved, just the designing part is, if I make £5 it is pocket money that HMRC still takes off me.

[simishoostore]

I don't advertise my website on ebay and if I have ebay haven't informed me that I have, I listed a couple of items yesterday and they told me I couldn't do something; when I looked in to it; it was the address of the company that deal with UK Law, which is required. I have sold one item in 10 months and made £20 of which HMRC took off.

[simishoostore]

Lovely xx my mom had to sell all her antiques when my father passed. we went from working class to comfortable to poor in the space of a year, it has been a fight ever since, couldn't even afford my own house x I will try and find the antique sites for you that are free to list and sell and private message if that is ok x give me a day if you could x

[simishoostore]

I don't buy the goods really and the companies make the money not me, I do it for fun and design for them. Funnily they are limited companies, shall I take my designs off just because they look like stock cuz if you look they are all 3d images. Also I haven't made £50 in 10 months and HMRC take any earnings off me

[simishoostore]

I have only just started and trying. making £20 in 10 months is not a business, also I pay ebay fees, I just haven't got a subscribed shop front which I did have and couldn't afford to pay, just because you have experience and made it and have been going long enough, doesn't mean I have to pay for the shop front and register as a LTD company, or get VAT registered yet

[simishoostore]

They still do, they did for months with me with a shop front and subscription, I had to lose the shop front for that reason and paying £20 a month, I made £20 in 10 and is costing too much and I was getting in debt. 

[rugbyguy1960]

I don't believe that someone with some talent who is trying to use that to actually create a business for themselves should face criticism. 

[simishoostore]

I seriously feel like crying today and feel i want to close everything in fear, I am trying so hard and it's just print on demand, I am making no money and it is costing me to just try and have a website and enjoy designing again. it was costing me so much to have a shop front with ebay and what money I make HMRC take it from my benefits. fining the money to even get these made when the hold funds is coming from my benefits. I am so tired and lonely and scared of losing everything and my home for the sake of trying. I design and thats all I want to do. I don't know what to do, I felt like throwing it all in just to pacify people because I feel a failure in every way, in every part of my life. I have nearly lost everything and I am not making any money to even support what I am trying to give or put across, and you know all I want is a buyer with their own shop or an existing company or brand to recognise me and say look we will buy your brand or you can do some design work for us and our company, but it all fells like a pipe dream and probably is. I can't afford help with finances, loans, grants, I have no funding or finances to help, still I try but I will not lose everything and my home just because my venture looks like a existing business. It is far from it. 

[simishoostore]

I'm so tired and low, I feel like a failure and like I should quit. I just don't want to get in debt. I can't afford a shop front and can't afford to buy stock, I can't afford to get loans or a grant to help.

[rugbyguy1960]

Keep on doing what you enjoy.

If you manage to create a business then great.

People always seem to have issues with others with some talent.

[simishoostore]

Thank you, but I am crying it has really upset me so much, should I get in debt if I am not making anything, how can I afford to buy things with no money? I had to purchase a jumper for a buyer and it comes out my benefits until I get their money, I have to save the money and profit in case the buyer complains so I am £100 down when I am only making £20 in the end in 10 months which HMRC take off my benefits

[rugbyguy1960]

Don't get into debt because of something you enjoy and are good at.

Try looking more in your local area to offer your services and get known.

Then if things progress come back with a vengeance. 

[simishoostore]

I have tried for 10 years, I did it before I had a breakdown, before I was ill. I sold paintings but people kept ripping me off, I designed for people but they want something for nothing, I do things to help people, no one will employ me because of my illness, Design and art is all I know. I was a designer for 25 years then a florist for 14, I was doing floral arrangements for a muslim wedding venue before covid that i loved then I had a breakdown and became ill with this neurological disorder, I take so many pills and I am so ill some days I can't function, it takes me so long to do things and even update my website because of the pain I am in and its so upsetting I can't work and have to go to constant hospital appointments. If I can just sit here and design regardless of making a sale it for a moment makes me feel good and worthy. I have worked since age 16 and hard, in floristry I was doing 70 hrs a week, it killed me and now I feel worthless. 3 years and I have been like this, I am on insta as a designer and my website promotes designing, people can come to me to design a bag to match outfits, its an idea that seems set to fail. 

[rugbyguy1960]

So much for enterprise and growth within the UK.

[rugbyguy1960]

Is there a way to collate email addresses so instead of getting ripped off you can attach some small sample images of your work and maybe gain interest that way.

[tricia-o]

Thank you so much. x
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[tricia-o]

Thank you so much.
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