ebay standard response is they are applying UK VAT regulations - which obviously is incorrect. Given there are no UK based CS reps, its impossible to get them to replicate the problem. They need to have an account which is set to a UK address, and view UK items from it - something they can not do.
I've got over 50 items affected. All of mine are auctions (thats all I do). All the affected items are coins which are originally from a different country - but not all my foreign coins are affected, if that makes sense. I only had about a dozen affected listings which had no bids, so I played around with those - editing made no difference, even if I completely wiped it and changed the cat totally.
So I ended and relisted some, and 'sold similar' for others, (still on the old listing form). Some were ones which had 'country of origin' which I lchanged to British, all of which I changed the sub-cat to a British coin one rather than the correct say Malaysian, Canadian etc. There's a fair time delay until these are searchable, so I've only done this dozen so far, but by doing that it removes the spurious VAT. Hence my conclusion.
I'm going to list another batch tonight, and will follow my above rules, and keep an eye on the whole lot as well, to see if any more existing listings go wrong, or if any of the new listings get caught.
