New eBay API Error - Business/Personal eBay Account

Hi Mike, just got clobbered by this tonight myself when only approx 1 in 5 listings actual went and this error came up.

Set the preference rescheduled and ok but mad, but not with Auctiva.

Greedbay does not give a d**n some notice would have been appreciated as when I joined them like many others there was not this distinction and so if you had not changed it you stayed 'undefined'.

Auctiva please give us an alternative, at this rate as soon as I can sell at a decent sell through rate in the UK I will say good riddance to greedbay. The only things I will miss is your toolset, I hope your plans to provide off greedbay sales is successful.

Hello, I recently updated my email address on eBay, I live in USA but my email address is under @googlemail.com ... Will the change affect me at all? Please reply promptly, thanks as this is URGENT.

Hi I believe this only affects those registered on the UK and probably the Irish site as they are governed by European Union directives as well as English/Irish Republic law respectively.

Okay, thank you, then I feel ease and safe.

This is a worry. Does anybody know at which level you are considered to be a 'business' and must therefore change your eBay settings from 'private' to 'business'.
I have an eBay score of almost 700, so I suppose that I am a 'business' in the eyes of this stupid rule, even though *all* my listings are 'private' and nothing to do with any 'business'.
What can we do about this - stuff all I guess!
Damn legislators shoud try living in the real world for a while.
Grrrrrr!!!!

Hi the situation is messy, I am not an official of any kind in this but I see it as below and expect it varies from country to country or even state to state in the USA.

1) Does not matter what your profile number is or rate of selling is on eBay.

2) Need to consider whether your selling is considered to be selling your own items or buy to sell, this relates much to how long you have kept the items between buyng and selling them.

3) The income tax institution of your country will have rules relating on what the word 'trading' or 'business' means and when you should register as a business.

4) To me (2) & (3) above dictates whether I am a business or individual selling off their own items rather than eBay itself not eBay.

5) When your online selling is officially considered to be a business by the relevant government departments of your country then it will probably become a target for income tax deductions and selling taxes (e.g. VAT in the UK) when it reaches certain level.

So absolute eBay profile score is not the problem, you need 'only' to consider your ruling government's legislation.