some person has gone to jail for selling on ebay and claiming

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi... heard on the radio today...... that some person has gone to jail for selling on ebay... and claiming benefits....

by all accounts they said he sold over £100.000.. one hundred thousand pounds worth of goods on ebay... and was claiming benefits.....

i know that the 'taxman' randomly picks and watches ebayers..... what their criteria is ....i should imagine is maybe high feedback or high value sales ...

i am in the middle of setting myself up in business.... as now i feel its gone past selling my collections ....

just thought i would post a thread... to see what peeps think.... and at what level do you class it as selling un-wanted goods and selling for a profit....

Avoriaz

Maybe it is Snooze Control.

Has anyone seen him today?:D

saver_sam

See this about it. Very silly in my opinion

http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=455&ArticleID=1975970

Hoddie_2

Avoriaz wrote:

Maybe it is Snooze Control. Has anyone seen him today?:D

One can only hope.

Well I have no sympathy for anyone who fails to pay their dues. I hope they take the guy's assets as well.

frivolous_fay

Smeg appliances? Bleh!

Hoddie_2

saver_sam wrote:

See this about it. Very silly in my opinion

http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=455&ArticleID=1975970

Interesting in that they haven't done him for not paying tax or NI on his income. Perhaps they'll wait for him to be released and then send him a nice thick bill. I also genuinely hope they use the Proceeds of Crime bill to sieze anything he has of value.

The following is particularly interesting...

McNaughton and his sister-in-law, Michelle McNaughton, had already been to court for offences of computer misuse and deception in a separate hearing. Those charges related to McNaughton using his sister-in-law's eBay user name.

jayok

saver_sam wrote:

See this about it. Very silly in my opinion

Very silly that he done it or that he was charged with offences?

jayok

Hoddie wrote:

The following is particularly interesting...

Maybe for shill bidding?

pennylane99

there was a guy here done for fake DVD's and stuff, doesnt say Ebay, but I imagine he sold on there as well..

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/news/tm_headline=jail-for-dvd-fake-trader&method=full&objectid=18386781&siteid=109975-name_page.html

greeneye

I wonder if you are claiming benefits at what point your profits from ebay sales actually become classed as fradulent.
If your selling your own property that you owned before you started a benefits claim I wouldn't think that would be classed as earnings.

But from what I remember from years ago they are pretty big on declaring any income whatsoever.

So say you are claiming, bought yourself a new outfit decided you didn't like it and then sold it on ebay and actually got more than you originally paid for it that could be percieved as earnings that would need to be declared.

Likewise if you bought yourself a £2 ornament for the front room at a car booty but your other half decided they hated it so you stuck it on ebay and it turned out to be worth £500 I imagine you'd need to declare it.

Your obviously not likely to be tracked down by the DSS via ebay but these DSS grass a dole cheat phonelines seem to be very popular ;+)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi......

i thought you had to delare earnings or any money you recieve.... as i am sure when i was signing on years ago... that they ask if there is any bills paid by someone else.. or any other money you recieve....

its a grey area.......so in effect ..if you sell unwanted gifts... you are making a profit.....also if you sell something that you paid for and no longer want or use... you got money coming in....

i am a hoarder...... and over the years i have accumalated quite a lot.... hense me selling the stuff on ebay etc...

hense me starting a business.......