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Why does something that worked well before have to continue to become so greed oriented and cram out the seller's liberties?

 

The simple answer is that greed is a basic part of human nature and it's always been especially bad where ebay is concerned.  I've been saying for 13 years that ebay is doing its best to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

 

As for your inference that I'm not academically inclined, I had a good laugh at that.  As for amending your tax return to include things that happened in the next tax year, there are very limited circumstances where you can do that.  Mostly it's about when the money was paid (or credited), not when it 'should have' happened. 

 

Ebay does things the way it suits them and for those of us it doesn't suit, we've learnt to work around it.  While it may be possible for ebay to amend previous invoices, changing one person's invoice would have a flow-on effect, and they've probably decided to keep it simple.  Many sellers would get confused if they issued amended invoices so a simple system probably works best for the majority of sellers.

You might like to address THAT to the OP.

Thanks for your submission. Actually I never mentioned my tax return being the issue. "As for amending your tax return"...

 

The issue was as you touched on afterwards, the problem that eBay does what it wants when it wants, according to the statistics it needs and requires for it's own "Golden Goose" enterprise. ( I like that analogy)

 

My only idea was to amend existing invoices when it is within the same cycle so that one can see that a credit was honoured and save inquiries or needing to check on the transaction end of things; and since things are electronically done online now, all that would take is a bit of code that updates the invoice section each time a credit or debit is tallied in your IOU's or otherwise. IT's all connectable nowadays and only requires the foresight and acceptance of the admin to implement, for users sakes.

 

I mean why not? Web-pages are constantly updated when there is an ammendment. There is little difference but that it is a page with an invoice. If one was emailed out, then the same code could be designed to send an updated version. All in all as long as it isn't fudged at tax time, beyond the tax year, if there must be a rule.

 

cheers