03-11-2020 2:13 PM
Despite my 15 year membership and 100% feedback, ebay won't let me list my latest face mask. they say it's because I am not an authorised seller. What is an authorised seller? How do I become one? Why have they allowed my last 8 listings?
Face-masks can only be sold by established business sellers, and by those business sellers that were selling face-masks before Covid-19 was even known about. Why, you ask...? Because profiteering from human tragedy and disasters is strictly forbidden by UK law.
Be aware too that private accounts are ONLY for those clearing out their homes of their no-longer-wanted possessions. Anyone who makes, grows, refurbishes or buys in (new or used) item to sell, is a business and must be registered as such. Not only an Ebay requirement, but THE LAW. For confirmation got to Ebay's Seller Centre. For full information, go to the government's website. And note that there is no such thing as a 'hobby seller' in this country, and how much or how little you sell or make is totally irrelevant.