eBay - Help!!

[Kay Sera]

Hello everyone, and Happy Easter (I'm sure I should be enjoying a day off!)

I am totally and utterly confused with eBay and PayPal, having spent all morning trying to fathom them out, and I'm hoping some kind soul will take the time to explain things in simple English.

I have sold a number of single, unwanted items on eBay, as well as bought a number of one-off items. I generally use Paypal for buying and selling and so far, so good.

Now the tricky bit (for me anyway).

I have just started a small business, printing fancy wrappers for chocolate. I have created only one listing so far on eBay and now daren't move forward until I fully understand what the h*ll I am doing.

1. We are VAT registered, so I have filled in the relevant bits on eBay to say so (and understand it will take up to 2 weeks for confirmation of this). I don't understand why it says about being VAT exempt if you submit your VAT No. Can anyone clarify that bit for me?
2. I am selling my products in single packs of 6 wrappers but if anyone wants to order more than 1 pack, how do I amend the invoice?
3. Where do I amend the invoice - eBay or Paypal.
4. Does eBay/Paypal automatically add VAT to the invoice.

I'm not even sure if the above makes sense Maybe it's time I went and started sorting out 5 bin bags of my granddaughters clothes - to sell on eBay!! Which brings me to another point - these are being sold on behalf of my daughter - so no VAT should be included. How do I do this?

Thank you so much to anyone who feels brave enough to try and help.

 

[alex4orne]

"I am selling my products in single packs of 6 wrappers but if anyone wants to order more than 1 pack, how do I amend the invoice?"

In your listing, you need to fill in more quanities available to do this. Say you have 6 packs of six, then when you are listing to you need to put in you have 6 pack available then ebay will do the rest for you.

AS for selling your daughters items, I would suggest you set up a second account for doing that, so that it keeps your business seperate

 

[Kay Sera]

Thanks for your help. I am using Auctiva and tried doing that originally but then I had to complete additional P&P costs for supplying more than 1 item, which isn't really relevant as they are only paper wrappers, so don't really cost any more to post.

Good idea about a second account. Thanks again.

 

[alex4orne]

I use auctiva too, in the additional p&p bit you can just put in 0.00p and that should do it.

 

[Kay Sera]

How simple is that - never even occurred to me (duh). Thanks again.

 

[ups2007john]

many skill I learned,thanks too.

 

[MH1]

Simply list the auction as a pack of six, then enter the number of lots, ie 10 lots of six.

If your client wants three lots they simply put three in the buy box, this works on BIN listings, not auctions. Postage has already been covered, regarding VAT, list the all inc amount and simply raise an invoice showing the VAT element for the client later.