eBay France automatically show seller addresses

by Sue Bailey

This post was written in March 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.
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Business sellers on eBay France should be aware that from March 31st, their address, telephone number and SIRET will automatically be shown on their listings.

eBay UK sellers successfully campaigned against this change a while back, but it’s my understanding that the law in France is less flexible on this point. And in any case, by saying “we’re going to do it for you” rather than “you must do it yourself”, eBay France have precluded any refusal to comply on the part of sellers.

A returns policy must also be specified if you’re not already doing that.

eBay France have excelled themselves in making an essentially quite simple matter look incredibly complicated here. The diagram explaining what goes where in your listings looks more like a blueprint for some super-advanced piece of machinery. And the button to take you to check or modify your professional details just takes you to your default My eBay page, leaving you to try and remember where they said the page to change things was actually hidden. The page you really want is here.

With thanks to Jo from French Collection for bringing this to my attention, and TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ for the photo.


Author: Sue Bailey
Posted at: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Filed Under News
 

Comments

6 Responses to “eBay France automatically show seller addresses”

  1. northumbrian on March 20th, 2008 2:01 pm

    God Bless Arthur Wellesley & Horatio Nelson

  2. moonmac on March 20th, 2008 2:42 pm

    And it’s in French! :grin:

  3. Biggles on March 20th, 2008 3:15 pm

    hahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Sorry, that’s not an incredibly helpful comment.

  4. Josordoni on March 20th, 2008 3:17 pm

    Hup North! Stand to attention now!

  5. northumbrian on March 20th, 2008 3:24 pm

    sorry cant misplaced my viagra

  6. frenchcollection on March 20th, 2008 4:20 pm

    I missed the deadline for supplying my business info on eBay.fr (this account was created long before one had to specify ‘business’ or ‘private’) - serves me right for reading the UK version of the changes, so have lost my PS status. I did the necessary (I think - the French form is long and tortuous :eek: ) and contacted le Support to ask for reinstatement. Surprisingly, received a sensible reply - apparently French-based PS who didn’t meet the 10th March deadline will be invited to re-join on 10th April.

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