No wonder our fees keep going up!

[*crikey*mate*]

Don't mind me - just ranting about postage charges from one of our Top Rated sellers.

TRS - Feedback nearly 3000 - selling clothes.

I bought two items - charged $11 combined postage.

*shrugs*

fair enough, I knew up front and calculated the cost into my purchase price calculations.

The items arrived today.

They were squished into a in a 500 g satchel - but here's the kicker - they weigh (according to my trusty digital postage weighing scales) 1006g

[purple.cow]

It stays as being a clean out until you start buying, or acquiring the items you sell for an outside source not derived from your own personal, or family personal affects.

Hope that helps that fish brain of yours out a bit 😉

What I do and think of as being just my hobby thing in selling on markets is definately a business in the Aussie taxman's eyes ecause everything I sell is bought in only to resell.

It would be a bit of a different story if I wasn't so lazy and actually made the things I sell so I could be considered as a ' Crafter' but I just have no interest in that sort of thing, don't know I'd turn anything out wortn selling even if i tried 😞

[not_an_eloi]

some folk can turn BS into a craft, i'm told.

[purple.cow]

You really shouldn't talk yourself down like that eloi :^O

[the-kazbar]

Thanks for that Moorna, it's what I thought...

hmmmmm

"Me and my family (huge family) are having a massive clear out lots n lots of bargains to be had,"

2163 feedback transactions as a seller......

The ATO are not fooled by large pink font.

If a person acts like a business (repeatedly doing business-like activities with the hope of making a profit) then the ATO will get them.

Also, if it is a hobby, then costs cannot be used as a deduction so if someone is claiming for the cost of postage, goods, ebay fees etc then it is automatically considered a business.

For anyone who isn't sure, the ATO website makes it pretty clear. Better to be safe than sorry as ebay will hand over details again this financial year

http://www.ato.gov.au/content/00348320.htm

[the-kazbar]

this is a good one too -

http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.aspx?menuid=0&doc=/content/00348320.htm&page=2&H2

[appletreeaaa]

The problem with Australia Post pricing policies is that parcels jump from 500 grams to 3 kilograms , there is no 1 kilo or 2 kilo bags and no sliding scales , if Australia postage had an increasing scale of prices for parcel worked out on a one gram basis then a 502 gram parcel should only cost a few cents extra over a 500 gram parcel instead the cost is almost double .

If you went into a fruit shop to buy some apples in a bag at $2 for  500grams and the assistant said '' that because the apples weighed 502 grams you had to pay twice the price '' most people would think that was unfair .

[davewil1964]

Totally agree appletreeaaa. I suspect, however, that the administrative cost of such a pricing regime would outweigh the income and AP would revert to fixed pricing points.

[*crikey*mate*]

I agree that is a problem, but does that give people the right to use a service and break their rules?

Everyone else has to abide by them.

[thecatspjs]

who is breaking the rules crikey ???

[*crikey*mate*]

posting 1006 g in a 500 g satchel.

evading eBay fees by putting profit into postage and not sale price.

charging more for postage than what eBay allows.

Not even sure about the tax man....