eBay for Charity

Claiming back VAT on postage in the UK?

It would appear that some of Royal Mail's postal services are now subject to VAT :https://www.royalmail.com/information-vat-and-postal-servicesWe use Tracked 24 / 48 quite a bit which would appear to be subject to VAT. Does anyone have a view on whet...

£800 taken away incorrectly by Paypal Giving

We operate a Business / Charity account on ebay and have done for many years. In January we had to change our paypal giving account over to a new one as historically it had been set up badly and it was not possible to fix the issue, this was on the a...

Resolved! “This charity ID can't be used for a cross border listing.“

I am getting this error: “This charity ID can't be used for a cross border listing.” when trying to enable a donation to Cat’s Protection on an item I am selling. I’m in the UK, item is in the UK, and I’m pretty sure Cat’s Protection is in the UK too...

Charity Donation

Here's a very interesting situation, highlighted by a postage refund today.My items are very low priced although postage is high.Because of the Royal Mail pricing and categories it's quite difficult to get the postage exactly right for all purchase q...

Resolved! Ebay for charity blue & yellow ribbon not showing on listings

I have been working for a local charity running their ebay store for the last 3 months. We have nearly 400 listings, and we are set up as a charity on ebay and we pay the 1.1% charity fee rate. I have just noticed however that most of the items I hav...

Charity Selling Limits Increase

Hi there, We have had a charity Ebay account for a couple of years, it is in good standing although we haven't used it much throughout this year. We primarily used the account to facilitate an annual charity auction in October each year where we sell...

Resolved! Ebay shop subscriptions for charity ebay accounts

Hi, I've started working for a local charity setting up and running their ebay account. We get the reduced final value fees for charity of 1.1%, and presently we pay a 36p insertion fee per listed item. Are charities able to take advantage of ebay's ...

Charity account onboarding failed

im going round in circles here....I am currently trying to set up and ebay account for the charity I work for. We've done all the Paypal giving fund stuff and have been approved there. Setting up the ebay account today I encountered a technical probl...

Charity account

Hi,I’ve been trying for ages to set up a charity account for a small charity I volunteer for but eBay keep asking for more and more details. They want name, addresses, dob and NI numbers of the directors and some objected strongly to this. I actually...

Charity not found - trying to list an item and donate proceeds

I have a small vintage book that will fit in a large envelope which I would like to sell and donate the proceeds to a local charity. I have already put the charity in my favourites, but when I go to "Donate a portion of this sale" on my listing, it c...