ebay found a new way to screw with buyers

[Betsy]

It steps over the line for me.. certainly now worth eBay’s appeal / convenience.

 

[d8mok]

It steps over the line for me.. certainly now worth eBay’s appeal / convenience.

Yeh I’ve pulled the last few items off now. Only had a few old childhood toys listed so makes little difference.

No point selling if they will restrict payouts (I guess this will be the tactic)

It’s suggested online that not providing the NI will shoot you to the most wanted list for not complying. But I struggle to see what legal obligation I have to give eBay it. The value of items sold isn’t even above the threshold.

I’m sure back in the day , it was always said to not give anyone your NI apart from your employer. Now everyone wants it.

 

[Woz]

EBay now asking for my NI number for my personal account.

Aside from the fact I’m not confident that EBay isn’t gonna have a massive data breach at some point for this info , it annoys me slightly that it puts you on the radar for HMRC no doubt ( which nobody wants) and likely another column / cost come self assessment time

Already happened to me (and countless others).

They have all my ID on file due to KYC.

29 Spam Email messages last Tuesday all starting with my name in the subject title. Based on a single search I did 15mins prior.

Pi$$es me off.

 

[d8mok]

Already happened to me (and countless others).

They have all my ID on file due to KYC.

29 Spam Email messages last Tuesday all starting with my name in the subject title. Based on a single search I did 15mins prior.

Pi$$es me off.

I haven’t decided yet if I’m playing their game yet.

I’ve got a separate business account anyway. This is just personal crap.

It’s also confusing as they report for calendar years but HMRC work on tax years.