its not free to sell - false advertising and needs to be taken down.

[byclickingsubmit]

"It’s now free to sell. What you earn, you keep. We removed fees for private sellers in all categories," 

Once you sell and item there is a fee applied. Its called a "Buyers Fee".

We removed fees for private sellers means, there will be no fees for private sellers.

When i list an item, even before it sells. Ebay add a FEE to that item.

Fees are still applied to the seller, they may not be responsible for paying this fee but one is applied to private sellers. so this needs to be changed as you stated youve removed fees.

Just because you called it a buyers fee, its sell applied to the seller.

[bzmotman]

"until ebay started grassing us all up to hmrc" - I think you mean "until ebay complied with the law".

Obviously this has the potential to affect businesses pretending to be private sellers unless they are correctly declaring their Business to HMRC.

Personally I am in favour of all sellers paying the correct level of tax & complying with the appropriate Consumer Protection legislation.

[superchallenge]

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@ebtyson wrote:

Under advertising law, you can't mislead and claim a technically.

The seller doesn't get all the money paid buy the buyer, so there is a fee to sell. The price of an item as viewed by a buyer is increased above the price a seller will receive directly impacting sale of the item. Higher price == less sales.

If the "buyer" fee was 50% would you still claim it's free to sell?

Yes. Because it would be free to sell. It would not be free to buy. As has already been explained to you.

This really isn't complicated.

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@ebtyson wrote:

Private sellers aren't paying tax, there is no VAT,  it makes no difference whatsoever who eBay claims is paying the fee. It's all a marketing scam and needs to be stopped.

Stop accepting companies taking the P out of you.

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eBay isn't "claiming" that buyers are paying the fee. Buyers are quite literally paying the fee. Private seller sells an item for £10...they get £10. The buyer pays £11.60 (or whatever it is.)

£11.60 is more money than £10.00.

£1.60 more, in fact. And that £1.60 came out of the buyer's wallet and went directly to...eBay. The seller never saw it or had possession of it, and was never asked for it by eBay. Because...get this...the seller was not charged!

It's crazy, I know, but it's about the only thing eBay have done recently that is actually REALLY clear and easy to understand.

[dch2112011]

Your flogging a dead horse unfortunately !

[superchallenge]

Pretty much. Some people can't be helped 🙂

[kath3735_wxmjn]

it is not e bay 'grassing' anyone up, it is a legal requirement for them to give the information to HMRC.   Depends of course on what kind of seller you are as to whether the government will take any of the money.  Genuine private sellers should be ok, just pseudo ones that have anything to fear. 

[kath3735_wxmjn]

and it would not be taken into consideration by HMRC when considering whether to tax someone or not (at least it should not be!)