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Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

$50k a year is a very good living for a modest single man, that doesn't live in the city.

I'm sure there are people hear that can sh*t on your income just as well. Be nice! ;)

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

didn't mean to offend anybody. In fact my comment was meant to be ironic.

I think 4k is a hell of a lot of money and where I live 4 families or even more do live off 4k $ a month and not only a single man.

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Gotcha. It looked like you were mocking the income. Sorry! lol

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

I'm only in my mid 20's and have a corporate job, I live in the UK and make 3500 per month, I think this is extremely decent for the UK, I can imagine how this might sound lousy for someone from the US, I know salaries can skyrocket there for various industries, but not as much in the UK.
I'm also married and have a toddler, so the perspective of working from home 1-3 hours and making roughly the same income or more was pretty attractive ( so I could take care of cooking, cleaning properly lol ), but I am being honest and I just could not handle all the stress and wake up that suddenly I have 5k blocked in paypal, when nursery, mortgage and all that **** won't "wait" for 6 months, but I am currently also working on the idea of doing my sells on my own platform, just working on my products before launching and will keep an ebay account to spam customers with coupons lol in their packages.

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Andi due to the UK selling laws if a customer wants to return an item or cancel an item within 14 days you have to accept the return.

So rather than making it difficult for yourself, when you get the return request send the customer a message ,ask if the item is still in its original packing ect, once they confirm it is unopened, provide the return address, the return address in no way shape or form has to be the dispatched address.

Sounds like your making things very difficult for yourself. I had Trading standards on to me once, I ignored them for two weeks then said I had, moved to the USA, and got my account switched to eBAY US and then used a virtual address in Florida, one of my customers actually sent a return to Florida, the virtual office takes a photo of the item for you, and asks if you want it forwarding or trashed. Anyway because my Account has a USA address I got restricted 4 weeks ago as they wanted VAT. Ive changed back to the UK site, got the restriction lifted with some photoshop proofs, and I'm back in business. Andi dont give up too soon. There is no way Id give up an account if it was a 5k a month, it all adds up :)

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Just gotta be smart and patient with ebay. If there were an alternative to it, I'm sure 99% of people in this forum would jump to it, but it's reach is just too BIG..

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Will Ebay payments eventually require SSN?

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Yes. Adyen will require a SSN and/or EIN.

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

So you know for sure that someone selling their old paint set from when they were in high school with a BIN price of 19.95 free shipping has to come up with a SSN?/EIN?

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Yes. I’ve dealt with Adyen systems for years and every platform it’s on requires one or the other. eBay may not require it out the gate like everyone else has, but I’d prepare to turn the info over.

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

If I was a typical seller, there's no way in hell I'd give up my SSN just to sell sh*t every once in a while.

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

What if you were clearing $5-6000 a month

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

I have left selling on eBay for a while, for about four years, and left ebay and paypal for a while.
I made paypal Business account recently and planning to link several ebay account to same this paypal, as I am selling VeRO related software what strategy shall I have?

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

2 things..

1. That's NOT a typical seller.
2. Odds are, you aren't CLEARING that much without already having supplie that info to PP. So....

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Yeah I CLEARED $80k last year, paid taxes on it, NET not grosxr

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Then what's your question? Because that's not someone who just "sell stuff every once in a while".

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

I didnt ask a question

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

I reply to a guy said he wouldn't give a social security number

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Yeah... I'm that guy... and you DID ask a question. Are you feeling okay today?!

Re: Abandoning Ebay - Stress Levels not worth it?
 

Well, if you are making that much, how about hiring a manager to do your work while you take a break from it?

This way you aren't losing any business.