From what I remember not so long ago ebay began, almost randomly, to 'suggest' that private sellers needed to re-register as business sellers simply because they had breached one or other of the thresholds. I remember one private seller who had sold 3 items of high value on a new account, told that they needed to re-register as a business. Another seller, who had been selling off their stamp collection for years was pressurised because they had sold many items, but all relatively low value, advised because of their sales volume.
There were others not quite so absurd in themselves but which were even more abhorrent when business sellers on this board were pointing out to ebay, on a daily basis, that were hundreds of sellers who were blatantly businesses pretending to be private sellers, but which ebay totally ignored.
This 'advice' was clearly very selective and from what I read, always incorrect.
Surely it is wrong to knowingly register incorrectly, whichever way round it is done? Just as it is wrong for ebay to 'advise' on how anyone should register or re-register unless they have a cast-iron case to back up that advice? Once someone puts themselves in HMRCs firing line by registering as a business seller the repercussions can be far more serious and long lasting than HMRC having a 'bit of a trawl through their info.', particularly for anyone not used to dealing with them and their systems.
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