PRIVATE SELLERS NOT WANTED ON EBAY

[plantsandsucculents]

The new regulations on ebay to arrive in February just prove that they are trying to convert Private Sellers to Business sellers.  Buyers will noe have to pay ebay for expensive postal and courier rates which I know that I can get cheaper through Royal Mail or Yodel.

So we will be priced out of the market and I think buyers will be going elsewhere probably to Amazon to get better deals.

Not sure how this can improve ebay for buyers or sellers frankly.  Very disappointing.

[edwardian-dreams]

It’s been puzzling that large parcels haven’t been allowed for best part of 6 weeks or so

Ebay now have announced hey you can now sell large items as we will be adding dhl to simple delivery couriers 

well, we could sell them before, when custom postage was allowed then disallowed even for really really BIG items like flipping sofas 

so whilst I don’t do conspiracy theories in general this one is a bit iffy

but why make people wait for dhl all this time , it’s not as if eBay was making money from lost sales 

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[3942rick2005]

New workaround, it is more of a faff though - https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/How-do-you-list-anything-bigger-than-61cm-Part-two/m-...

[terribletoll]

I’ve moved over to Vinted which is simple and straight-forward. Not quite the footfall of eBay - but despite calling eBay 5 times now to ask if I might be reinstated, nothing has happened and my pleas have been ignored. I sell about 2 or 3 items a month! Second hand stuff.

[jonathanblair2]

Its not that simple sadly, there's not always masquerading going on, there's nothing that says private sellers can't be self-employed with low to medium turnover, VAT is set where its set anyway but ebay just want a monthly retainer off us because its very very profitable for them for items which sit on site for too long. They pay AWS or whichever cloud provider a monthly amount for ads sitting online.  HMRC's definition of the difference between selling off old goods and trading should have something to do with selling "more than one of the same item", and anyway anything sold once could be either honestly. Then its only the gain on the item which is taxable AFTER fees and postage so all this stuff about free selling when they're charging 7% on the lowest items via buyer protection is just a different way of charging nearly as much as before. Ebay's knackered about 200 of my ads by bulldozing simple delivery through the front end of ads whilst leaving my wording which promises special delivery or tracked on all higher value items (ie quick, not whenever the courier feels like delivering); the only blessing is they've let me remove EVRI who've stolen and lost so many items I'll never use them. A real mess. Customer Service were v helpful sorting out the blocked link to add tracking which you can access......so long as you purchase the rubbish label first and they said you can cancel it off and get a refund on the phone, but then the website says you can't so I've paid twice to send "free". It falls across Advertising standards AND consumer trading rights. BS