Ebay wants to force me to switch to a professional seller | Questions and answers among users

adrenalynmaster · 2025-06-23T05:08:50.821000Z

Good morning everyone, I’m laying out my problem.I’ve been an eBay user for about 11 years, and for 10 years I used the account almost exclusively, if not entirely, to buy.Unfortunately, a few months ago I lost my job and, sadly, not being Onassis’s son, I started selling pieces from my private collection of stickers and cards so I could literally eat.I’m doing the free listings, the ones that are free 150 a month, to save money of course.In these months I’ve therefore sold, as a private individual, about 6000 euros’ worth of stuff from my personal collection in order to live and not starve.But evidently in this country you have to starve.I started getting messages from eBay telling me I have to switch to a VAT number, but I absolutely do not want to switch to a VAT number because I’m not a professional seller, I’m only selling off my own personal stuff and my father’s, accumulated over many years, just so I can live, and anyway it wouldn’t make any sense for me to open a VAT number because I sell so little that the costs would exceed the earnings.I’m also ready to contact the tax agency or the Guardia di Finanza because I’m not a tax evader and I have nothing to hide, I just want to understand why I have to starve just because I’m selling my own used stuff accumulated over years of collecting.Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me.

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