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    Ebay have killed my business

    I'm now up to over 250 unwanted messages, so it's not very positive. I have done the same promotion on the shopify system as my own web site. If it outperforms my own in house system, i might stay with it, but the amount of rubbish it is generating is intense. In addition, my own site generates...
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Ebay apologised for telling me to do the change and are clueless why three previously OK radios are now delisted - 72 hours to wait. All brand new stock from three or four manufacturers - purchased direct from the manufacturers and a few via a UK trade only distributor, which gives me access to...
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    Ebay have killed my business

    This morning the listings were live but not visible. In the phone they did something and they appeared. They suggested I swapped the titles around to have marine vhf radio as the first words. I edited the listings and three got removed in thirty minutes
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Yes - I seem to have customers in clusters - word spreads person to person. On the shopify front - I'm inundated with requests for percentages if they increase sale, quotes for unspecified products and even just random letters - the shopify website just seems to attract people on the make, and...
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Thanks Ozzy - I even tried nicking the standard text and images (mine are unique) from a competitors site and that was the 30 minute removal. The fella I spoke to at ebay did seem to understand the issue and this time, they have restored all 4 items recently removed - I did not have to do it? He...
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Paul - thanks for the info. I'll see what if anything happens - I will see how some parallel marketing with my original website actually works - if the shopify one gets picked up better than mine. If not, I will dump it. Thanks
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Muse - but that is scheduled for a swap to something else.
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Well - I got to speak to a fella who genuinely seemed to understand and was quite honest - the removed listings have been put back. Previously, this had not been done and was left for me to do - but the products are live again. I'll give the shopify platform a go and see if in the 30 days, it...
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    Ebay have killed my business

    Thanks for the advice - my local chandlers is somewhat old fashioned, and the locals of course know me as my office is quite close to the harbour - The boating forums haven't been very responsive, and ebay does much better than my own website. I'm setting up a shopify site to experiment. At...
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    Ebay have killed my business

    I’m getting on, and am thinking it’s maybe time to retire as my main income stream has dried up and other avenues have never worked as well. I sell marine radios. The things boat owners fit to call for help when the hit icebergs, or more commonly when they cannot remember where they intended to...
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    Ebay AI listing Removals

    I've had my account restricted because of listing violations. A couple of my best sellers removed citing policy violation - as in devices that receive or transmit are not allowed. The section they are listed in is aviation and marine radios! Listings seem to be scanned by AI and somehow attached...
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    US company shipping to UK and insisting sale is VAT exempt

    I do indeed use freeagent, but I'm shifting to xero shortly. So at the moment, no idea how the next chapter will work. With alibaba - depending on which agent they use to ship, I usually get no VAT, unless UPS decide to charge it and then I have their VAT number to use against that one.
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    Cease and desist letter from BMW AG, Germany - Advice needed

    Thinking a bit more - the interesting thing is how they were discovered? What attracted them to the parcel in the first place. Random opening of parcels I was thinking was actually quite rare now. Trade mark infringement comes a poor second to pharmaceuticals, and illegal items triggered by...
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    Cease and desist letter from BMW AG, Germany - Advice needed

    Classic ploy. Their case is based on the loss to them based on the BMW items not sold due to your product usurping it in sales. A bit like how Apple do the same thing with screens and batteries. I suppose their stance is you were selling reverse engineered BMW intellectual property to people who...
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    US company shipping to UK and insisting sale is VAT exempt

    I have looked back through a years worth of my aliexpress purchases. They have my VAT and EORI numbers and none have VAT shown anywhere. If I look at prices I see everything with no VAT added at all. If I log out, and look at the same item, the price shows with 20% VAT added. My aliexpress items...
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