Re: eBay required VAT number for stealth acct Quote:
Originally Posted by burbur about 1)
the threshold is 17.500 EUR. after you reach it you are getting a mail on the 1st of the next month saying you have 28 days to upgrade to buissnes. It is always at the 1st and it can be more than 17.500 EUR.
After those 28 days are over they either block you from listing on ebay.de OR they send you a new message which is exactly the same as the old one and they give you again 28 days. on some accs i had it 3 times in a row before they finnaly blocked me.
When they block you you can switch to buissnes and continue selling until they block you for not providing the certificiate 22f. this usually takes less than 1 month.
Big disadvantage of selling as a private seller is you can only list 9 items in buyout (i am talking about the itemquantity). So if you listed 9 and 8 of them are sold you can not increase the quantity of the item back to 3 for example since it would exeed 9. You need to make a new listing (and people love to see 200 sold for example).
about 2)
I use UK accounts to sell in germany with and i choose itemlocation in germany but ship from another EU country and my paypal is from anothoer country aswell. Some clients do not like that but with ebay there is no problem.
about 3)
when you change from a private to a buissnes account it requiers you to enter buissnes information. the buissnesowner can be a different person thatn the account owner. so you can request the paper, trade on a personal account and when you upgrade it to a buissnes account you will just use the information which you have on the paper. check fiver there are many people offering to do the paperwork to request it | Hi Burbur,
The information you provided are very important and useful to me, thank you so much.
Please allow me to ask some more questions:
about 1)
Who sends the message when reaching the threshold of 17.500 EUR please? eBay or Paypal?
It's good to know the big disadvantage of the limited 9 quantity though I am currently fine with such case.
about 2)
This way sounds good to me.
Do you list on ebay.co.uk OR ebay.de please?
I use UK accounts to list items on ebay.co.uk with UK itemlocation and everything is fine, but when I use UK accounts to list items on ebay.de with DE itemlocation, then there is VAT issue.
According to your information, will this way works without VAT issue please:
To use UK accounts list items on ebay.co.uk with DE location and ship from DE?
I only have UK ebay accounts, I have to ship from DE, I can get paypal accounts from another country if needed, and I want to sell items to the whole EU, based on such situation, any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
about 3)
This also sounds good to me, but I'd like to try #2 first.
Thank you Burbur.
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