An awful lot of unwanted bedding

Strapped

charlies_mum wrote: »

I am a business seller on Ebay, and only have my mobile number listed, and my business is my retail address and not my home address.

There is no way I would want my landline and home address available to anyone who looks at my listings.

I don't have my landline number listed either. Enough crazies ringing me already!

Tim_Deegan

charlies_mum wrote: »

I am a business seller on Ebay, and only have my mobile number listed, and my business is my retail address and not my home address.

There is no way I would want my landline and home address available to anyone who looks at my listings.

You don't have to. You just divert your business land line to your mobile outside office hours.

People are told not to trust sellers who only give a mobile number, for obvious reasons.

Tim_Deegan

macfly wrote: »

Yes, I think they are talking tosh. The only number I have for my plumber is a mobile. He has done £8,000 worth of work for me over the last three years. Why did I book him? Real life "feedback". He was highly recommended by a few of my neighbours. Bit more serious than buying a duvet.

Well that's a different matter completely. He came with personal recommendations, and you have known him for 3 years.

Would you be so trusting if he had cold called you and given you a card with just a mobile number on it????? Have you never watched Rogue Traders?

Tim_Deegan

Strapped wrote: »

I don't have my landline number listed either. Enough crazies ringing me already!

Well that's up to you. But you just won't get as many people trusting you.

Strapped

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

Well that's up to you. But you just won't get as many people trusting you.

I'll take my chances. (TRS with >3k feedback, only 1 neg so far...)

macfly

no Tim - it's just you. My ebay account also comes with personal recommendations - feedback.
And I have never watched Rogue Traders. Getting advice from the telly is a step too far for me.
And for all my advanced years, I've never been done. Wouldn't make a good program though would it?

Tim_Deegan

macfly wrote: »

no Tim - it's just you. My ebay account also comes with personal recommendations - feedback.
And I have never watched Rogue Traders. Getting advice from the telly is a step too far for me.
And for all my advanced years, I've never been done. Wouldn't make a good program though would it?

You are missing the point completely. It doesn't matter how many recommendations your eby shop comes with. It's a well known fact that people who don't want to be traced use PAYG mobiles. So less people trust sellers who only give out mobile numbers. If that's how you want to run your ebay shop that's up to you. However many people will be very wary about using it.

Mrs_justjohn

I have been away from this forum for a couple of months and have just returned this week.....still the same drama queens and still the same old posters talking sense....Nothing changes ...LOL

Whether the sellers story is credible or not or true or not, at this stage the only rule they are 'known' to be breaking is an ebay one about declaring their business status. Yes this means that they may be slipping under the radar for compliance to certain rules only covering businesses but as all their buyers seem to be happy then there is no great harm done.

As for tax avoidance allegations - no one here can possibly know if they are defrauding the IR so why speculate?

Mrs_justjohn

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

You are missing the point completely. It doesn't matter how many recommendations your eby shop comes with. It's a well known fact that people who don't want to be traced use PAYG mobiles. So less people trust sellers who only give out mobile numbers. If that's how you want to run your ebay shop that's up to you. However many people will be very wary about using it.

Well nothing would convince me to give my home address and landline to buyers on ebay. If my TRS and PS status...plus my 100% feedback of 11000+ gained over 11 years does not convince them, and they have to ask for a landline to call me to check my credibility - they would go straight on my BBL. Buyers like that I could do without:rotfl:

Tim_Deegan

Mrs_justjohn wrote: »

Well nothing would convince me to give my home address and landline to buyers on ebay. If my TRS and PS status...plus my 100% feedback of 11000+ gained over 11 years does not convince them, and they have to ask for a landline to call me to check my credibility - they would go straight on my BBL. Buyers like that I could do without:rotfl:

If you have a feedback of 11000+ then I suspect that you should be a business seller. Which means that ebay displays your business address anyway. As for your phone number, if you are operating as a business then I think it is worth having another phone line installed just for business use. But how you operate is completely up to you.

It seems that some people seem to be twisting what I said around. The fact is that all the advice people are given is not to trust any seller or tradesman who only gives out a mobile number. And this is for obvious reasons. Even the credit card merchant companies give a possible fraud score for all transactions, and they give a very poor score for any anonymous details such as mobile numbers and hotmail, yahoo, and gmail e-mail addresses. At no point have I said that all people who only give out a mobile number are dodgy. But it is a fact that people who don't want to be traced use anonymous forms of communication.