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    Ebay business sales made in person for cash.

    Thanks for your reply. So if I (as a private individual) was to buy an item from Currys, for example, with a stated 12 month warranty, and that item was to break after 18 months, in theory I could still force Currys to give me a refund if the item bought could reasonably be expected to last more...
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    Ebay business sales made in person for cash.

    Can anyone tell me what information/paperwork I have to provide to a buyer who comes to my business premises (well, house), to pay for an item originally advertised on Ebay? Do I have to give them a statement of their rights or anything like that? Also, what are their return rights? I heard...
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    VAT Registration 'Rolling Year' Query

    Thanks for reply. That makes sense to me.
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    How to treat refunds for VAT registration threshold.

    I'm a sole trader who is not (currently) VAT registered, and am trying to calculate where I am in relation to the VAT threshold. I have two questions on this: 1) For items that are purchased from me but then returned in a later month for refund, do I understand it correctly that I should keep...
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    VAT Registration 'Rolling Year' Query

    I'm trying to work out if I'm required to register for VAT for my sole trader online business. My turnover may have breached the VAT limit for a couple of weeks during March if it is calculated on a daily basis for the last 365 days. However, if you calculate only at the end of each month, for...
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    Sole Trader Accounting

    The problem is that I put on my tax return that I am doing traditional accounting, when I am using the above method. Does that mean I've put the wrong thing on my tax return? Is this likely to come back to haunt me?
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    Sole Trader Accounting

    I've been running a business as a sole trader selling primarily on Ebay for a few years now (a small time affair, well below the VAT threshold for turnover), and am seeking to improve my accounting practices, without making them too onerous. Since virtually all of my activity goes through...
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    Legality of Ebay's Money Back Guarantee

    My query is about the sense in which it can be called a 'guarantee' if the consumer can have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that the facility will be applied to their purchase.
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    Legality of Ebay's Money Back Guarantee

    Right but I'm really asking specifically about views on legality - nothing else. I'm sure there will be plenty of horror stories on both sides (I've personally had horror stories on both sides) but I'm after views on the legal standing of the system.
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    Legality of Ebay's Money Back Guarantee

    I was a buyer in the final instance, however I'm really asking from the point of view of the law.
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    Legality of Ebay's Money Back Guarantee

    Hello all, I'm a sole trader who buys and sells quite a few things on Ebay, and have recently come upon the limitations on Ebay's (now apparently) rather porous Money Back "Guarantee". Essentially what I have discovered may be summarised as follows: 1) There is some limitation on the amount of...
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    Is it legal that ebay do not show fees for sellers for some types of items?

    Oh, and FYI - you should try talking to ebay customer services. They don't know either.
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    Is it legal that ebay do not show fees for sellers for some types of items?

    I'm not sure where you're getting the notion that laptops are more desirable than monitors. Believe me, I'm in the business, and each is just as desirable as the other to somebody who wants one. I also find the notion that you should be happy with no specificity and just assume the worst case...
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    Is it legal that ebay do not show fees for sellers for some types of items?

    That seems like a lot of speculation, which isn't really much of a way to run a business. I know (from being charged after the fact) some of the things that ebay calls consumer electronics and some that they don't. Laptops are classed as consumer electronics. Computer monitors I think are not...
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    Is it legal that ebay do not show fees for sellers for some types of items?

    Don't be so sure. A graphics card is clearly an item of consumer electronics. Manufacturers decorate them all purdy and give them nice looking coolers so punters will pick them up off the shelves. But ebay classes them as 'other electronics' (therefore 8% fees with no cap rather than the 5% fees...
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