Private sellers who should be business sellers any thoughts?

macfly

It seems to be impacting on neither. The seller has one neg in 600. People obviously know they are buying copies.
Let's not go down the rout of ebay's reputation".

Crowqueen

toffe wrote: »

personally i don't have time to worry about little things like this, i leave it to ebay and just get on with running my business while letting ebay run theirs.

i don't think it so much impacts on ebay's reputation as it does the seller themselves as personally if i click on an item and it is clearly a business seller but they are not registered as a business seller it puts me off, purely because it gives the impression of a cowboy, flyby night outfit who may go NLR at any moment.

as a TRS i'll be waiting to snap up the customers they are putting off buying from them with their del boy ways.

eBay have branded the site so well that casual buyers will associate any idiot with eBay and not just as one bad seller.

Seeing things through sellers' eyes, yes, that's true to a point, but looking through buyers' eyes increasingly these days, in my experience, once bitten, twice shy.

toffe

Crowqueen wrote: »

eBay have branded the site so well that casual buyers will associate any idiot with eBay and not just as one bad seller.

Seeing things through sellers' eyes, yes, that's true to a point, but looking through buyers' eyes increasingly these days, in my experience, once bitten, twice shy.

well i can only personally speak from my own experience and my sales continue to grow month on month, year on year, so i can't see that these things are impacting on my business at all.

Myyrrddyn

One of the downfalls of ebay is that is you make something to sell on ebay ie a bit of jewellery they class you as a business even though 99.99% of the things you sell is household junk. I started as a private seller and then went onto bigger things even having a limited company so everything is legit and above board even my accountant like the progression from private seller to employing staff and selling on several websites 2 being ones I created from scratch. But as the ones you mentions seem to be businesses they should be selling as a business, paying tax etc. It annoys me when you see things like this, but what can you do?

Pembroke

You can download the meccano magazines for free if you want http://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/MMpdfs1.php?id=1253816687 wonder if they have any thoughts on people selling their files on Ebay ?

George666

toffe wrote: »

personally i don't have time to worry about little things like this, i leave it to ebay and just get on with running my business while letting ebay run theirs.

i don't think it so much impacts on ebay's reputation as it does the seller themselves as personally if i click on an item and it is clearly a business seller but they are not registered as a business seller it puts me off, purely because it gives the impression of a cowboy, flyby night outfit who may go NLR at any moment.

as a TRS i'll be waiting to snap up the customers they are putting off buying from them with their del boy ways.

Crowqueens answer to this is right also the item number 270681949085 Mobile 48 pointed out is a top rated seller as well this means if they could be making buyers on ebay think that all sellers on ebay are selling dubious products this could damage everyones businesses.

Myyrrddyn wrote: »

One of the downfalls of ebay is that is you make something to sell on ebay ie a bit of jewellery they class you as a business even though 99.99% of the things you sell is household junk. I started as a private seller and then went onto bigger things even having a limited company so everything is legit and above board even my accountant like the progression from private seller to employing staff and selling on several websites 2 being ones I created from scratch. But as the ones you mentions seem to be businesses they should be selling as a business, paying tax etc. It annoys me when you see things like this, but what can you do?

Well you can report them to ebay for a start the seller I first linked to is now selling a buy it now and running 15 auctions for the same item number 160524433693 this is against ebays multilistings rules if nothing else.
Second you can report them to Consumer Direct for running a business and failing to inform customers that they are a business this is illegal.

Crowqueen

One of the downfalls of ebay is that is you make something to sell on ebay ie a bit of jewellery they class you as a business even though 99.99% of the things you sell is household junk.

That's because you are a business if you sell that sort of thing, regardless of what else you sell.

Myyrrddyn

Crowqueen wrote: »

One of the downfalls of ebay is that is you make something to sell on ebay ie a bit of jewellery they class you as a business even though 99.99% of the things you sell is household junk.

That's because you are a business if you sell that sort of thing, regardless of what else you sell.

It was a hobby and not a business but it doesn't matter anyway as it was a good start. I know other people who have hobbies and having to list as a Business on ebay when they are not actually a business. This sometimes gives buyers the wrong idea, is what I was trying to say.

chancesare_2

Myyrrddyn wrote: »

It was a hobby and not a business but it doesn't matter anyway as it was a good start. I know other people who have hobbies and having to list as a Business on ebay when they are not actually a business. This sometimes gives buyers the wrong idea, is what I was trying to say.

Hobby or not, technically the moment you make something in order to sell it, is the moment your hobby becomes a buisness in the eyes of HMRC.

Being a business on ebay doesn't mean you are a business for HMRC purposes though.

macfly

Ebay sales continue to grow and grow. You are talking absolute tosh.
Quote "In my experience". Which is virtually none.