14 day distance selling returns to apply to auction sales

Brooker_Dave

Pembroke wrote: »

I can see Ebay rubbing their hands together as that ruling only 'seems' to apply to Pan-European websites, so if you only sold to the UK on .co.uk, and only sold to France on .fr and only sold to Germany on .de then it wouldn't apply and Ebay would get loads more fees.

Or you could just list on .com as the Yanks would definitely argue that EU rules don't apply to them, and with Paypal being essentially a US site they could also say the ruling doesn't apply to them.

Unless you offered free postage you generally wouldn't get hit by the return postage fees as you would price yourself out of all but your home market anyway.

The jist seems to be that if you sell in one EU country you *have* to sell in all, whether you want to or not.

"Article 22a, far from reducing red tape, obliges all retailers to sell into any country within the EU27, which runs completely contrary to all current best practice guidelines for cross-border trade."

http://www.retailfraud.com/2011/03/29/consumer-rights-directive-amendments-threaten-risks-increased-fraud/

martindow

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

The jist seems to be that if you sell in one EU country you *have* to sell in all, whether you want to or not.

I don't read it that way. Doesn't it say that if your buyer is in another EU country they would have this right of return. You could still choose where you wanted to sell.

Brooker_Dave

martindow wrote: »

I don't read it that way. Doesn't it say that if your buyer is in another EU country they would have this right of return. You could still choose where you wanted to sell.

Anyone in the EU could always enforce the DSR return right as far as I'm aware, it's just that now they have 14 days to change their mind.

The whole point of this seems to level the playing field (even if it will force EU sellers out of business and give a huge boost to Chinese and US websites) and force more cross boarder trading, hense the stipulation that you have to sell to all countries of the EU...