Online business ... By that definition you have provided, over 90% of eBay sellers would probably be considered a business. However, as with most "private" sellers, I do NOT operate on a commercial scale, I do not manufacture anything to sell, I do not trade consistently (I'm surprised anybody does on eBay these days) and I don't purchase items specifically to sell/trade on eBay either.

I usually purchase items based on the price the person I am buying them from wants for them and then decide if I want to keep them... Almost all of the items I purchase are from closed or closing down businesses and I generally keep/use most of the items for myself, as the items I buy always contain items that I want, however, from time to time, different scenarios arise, as with most things in life.

As you specifically picked out my cabinets in your original response, I'll tell you exactly what happened with those ..(not that it's any of your business). The guy I bought them from refused to sell me just the 3 I required for a job I wanted them for. I ended up purchasing all of them with a view to using them on further jobs. They sat in my shed for 2 months and were taking up space, so I decided to sell them on. Will I make a small profit on them, maybe I will, maybe I won't, maybe I will just try to get my money back on the excess ones I had to buy... why wouldn't I try to achieve that? I certainly don't want to lose money on them, but does that make me a business and a non law abiding citizen? No, hence my reasoning (which again I'm at least adding an explanation for).

As mentioned above, I generally buy items from closed down, or closing down businesses and unfortunately is the case, they don't want me cherry picking what I want, a prime example being the above mentioned cabinets. Another prime example would be a turbo I required to repair my car... I had 2 options...go buy a brand new one at a cost of £1,695 from Halfords, or buy one from a parts seller that was closing down, for £250 that also came with about 60 other car parts that were of no use to me whatsoever... What would you do in that situation? What am I supposed to do with the remaining parts? I chose to do what anyone with any modicum of common sense would do and try to sell them at a greatly reduced price to someone else that could use them and save themselves money on. Will I profit from those sales? Again, maybe, maybe not...but does that make me a business? Not in my opinion.

I have some garden furniture for sale, same thing... I wanted most of it for myself, but not all of it. What am I supposed to do with the leftovers? Offer someone else the opportunity to save a small fortune like I did, or merely discard it? 

There is almost always more to a story than meets the eye my friend and I have wasted far too much time and effort explaining my side to you, but your bitterness towards "private" sellers for whatever reasons you may have, seem to have simply blinded you to the fact that I must be a business seller, because your b.s definitions tell you so and I do not even meet those definitions, so again, I bid you a good day and to wherever you see fit, but at this point I'm tired of explaining to you.