Email a copy of 'Request an Exception if You Don't Want eBay to Publish Your Address' to a friend
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“Does the FTC consider marketplaces’ privacy more important than the privacy of individuals and small businesses?”
Does the government value multi-billion-dollar (and greater) corporations more than small businesses and everyday Americans? Does that even need to be asked? Of course they do!
Also, be sure to change the return address on your shipping labels to your eBay name or business name instead of your own name. I also use my PO Box address for my return address on the labels. I highly recommend getting a small PO box for that purpose. You do not want to advertise where all your inventory is kept, especially if you are running a business out of your home.
This Inform Consumers Act apparently applies to NEW item sales —
From the eBay release:
“A high-volume seller is someone who has sold 200 or more new items totaling more than $5,000 in a 12-consecutive-month period over the last 24 months on our US site.”
I read other places that the word is “new condition” not simply “new.”
That makes a WORLD of difference.
I wish eBay had provided a THIRD “Exception” — I do not sell NEW Items.