Reduced fee promotions since February 2023 ?

[lostloads]

I used to receive regular reduced fee promotions, whether it was 70% off, 80% off or maximum £1 etc.

Apparently, like many on here, these abruptly stopped in late February 2023.  My wife has continued to receive a promotion every 2 weeks on her eBay account without exception since that point. Not a single one for me. eBay advise that they are random, but the evidence appears to contradict that.

Anyway, there are several threads on this situation from others.

My question is for anyone in this position who also experienced these promotions suddenly ceasing in February. Has any private seller had a promotion granted to them since then, say after a couple of months without any. I'm curious if most people are in the same position as myself - when the promotions stopped, they have disappeared completely (so far). 

Or whether sellers in that position have been gradulally seeing them re-appear once again.

[trevdbowler]

About 2 months ago, whilst on Ebay, I got a pop-up (or pop-down?) message that HMRC had releaxed their criteria for monitoring Ebay sales, and increased the £1000 pa limit to nearer £6000 pa , to only catch the big genuine sellers who are making a living from Ebay.
That's certainly not me, as I am just de-cluttering.    I've heard nothing from HMRC.

[the_book_seekers]

I would treat that with a great deal of caution. It doesn't match up with ebay's official advice on the new regulations which is currently showing the below thresholds

• Total sales on eBay is equal to or more than €2,000 (approximately £1,740) after deducting fees and commissions or taxes
• 30 or more sales transactions are completed on eBay (cancelled transactions are not included in the calculation)

These are international regulations and I can't see HMRC making some kind of side agreement with ebay. Indeed if HMRC were to make some kind of allowance for ebay every on line company would be expecting the same treatment and the OECD which set the regulations would also have something  to say. That pop up was probably some kind of mischief which should be ignored.

[Anonymous]

You have heard nothing from HMRC because it is not relevant to the main issue of reporting limits. The figure of £6,000 will refer to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) which has nothing whatsoever to do with OECD reporting procedures. It is entirely a separate matter altogether.

The CGT annual exempt amount was reduced from £12,300 to £6,000 from 6 April 2023 and subsequently to £3,000 from 6 April 2024. The pop-up is out-of-date and, as the_book_seekers mentions, it is mischief and should certainly be ignored. In context, CGT refers to individual items of value and I presume it will only apply to exceptionally few instances on eBay.

[Anonymous]

didnt the world leaders years back gather at a summit, to discuss how low taxes big corps should pay!  instead of being treated like all tax payers and pay full amount.  so if government are giving special treatment how is hmrc any different??  the same governments that dont abide by international laws or recognise ICC

[the_book_seekers]

HMRC has signed up to an international agreement set by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and these are the regulations under discussion, not how big corporations are taxed, which is another matter entirely.  HMRC will not be extending special treatment to ebay or any other

on line company. 

[discover_ne1]

Exact same here only it continued for us until 2024...  We don't sell much about 10 items a year...  Don't make much £100 or so but when I spoke about a new idea on youtube, to sell items 99p auctions no reserve because my discount on ebay will be your discount, they shut her 70% discounts off.  Basically, I should've kept quiet and continued to sell on misses occassionally.  It's like eBay does not want anyone to enjoy discounts unless you don't want them. 

[make-my-day-357]

YEY !! No more fees for us private sellers - at last !! (Germany's PS have had this luxury for awhile now).

The only thing that may end up ruining it for us GENUINE Private Sellers  is the businesses pretending to be private sellers.

I have come accross several so called private sellers recently that have 12 or more copies of a certain 4K film for sale - these people are fraudulent pretending to be PS when obviously they are not.

I can understand a Private Seller having maybe two of something now and then but not multiple copies of several different items.