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Actually thats the 1976 line-up of The Wurzels. Should be in the music memorabilia section.

They're not looking at the 35 pound loco, they're looking at the sales over 1700 pounds or selling more than 30 items. They wouldn't be at the stage to look at whether all the individuals items were legitimate selling of personal items or not from eBay flagging it up .Ebay cant tell HMRC where you got the item you're selling - that would be down to you😉 I don't think this was ever about catching the big fish who would have moved on or gone legit as soon as this was announced. Not sure it's about catching out hobbyists selling off unwanted stock either. Imo, its more about getting people declaring any ebay sales over the limits to HMRC as a matter of course, rather than the fear of a letter from them querying your sales. - So yeah, if I was selling over a 1000 pounds per year on ebay, I'd tell them, profit or not.

yep, but what's a personal item? if you bought say a loco off ebay next month and Christmas you flog it on ebay because you don't like it, changed era's, etc.. then that isn't automatically classed as a personal item. Profit wise you could have bought a non-runner and fixed it, and got more than you paid. There is no time limit so if you sell over 1000 pounds in total the onus is on you to prove that it wasn't intentionally bought to sell if HMRC decided to look into it. Its all very vague

While I tend to agree (hope) that is the case, it's still incredibly vague with the onus on you. The 1700 sales figure for reporting your figures is fair enough though many non professional sellers will be above that. The 30 items limit is ridiculous as that could easily be below 1700 or indeed 1000 pounds. Loads of railway hobbyists must go miles above 30 items in sales per year. With people like Martin lewis telling anyone to report over 1000 pounds worth of sales to HMRC even if your just selling the contents of your loft then people will be put off. And the elephant in the room is if they are after the big fish avoiding tax, then what sort of idiot big fish will continue doing it?

Yes but technically if you were still selling in January over the limit your records will be shared.

I see EBay have put a big article about "no side-hussle tax" on their home page. Seems a bit late seeing it came into law in January, so I wonder if there has been a significant drop off in sellers listing?

I don't know if its because of when I was born, but I've recently been losing a bit of weight and its suddenly occurred to me that I operate in some sort of halfway house metric imperial system. I use cm and metres for length EXCEPT height which is feet. I have no concept of how tall I am in cm's or metres. likewise weight I use grams and kilograms EXCEPT my own weight which is stones and lbs. weight in Kgs? Not a scoobie. Every time I try and work out my BMI there's only the option for metric or imperial, not some "born in the 1970s" mixture. Same with gallons - I can visualise how big a gallon is, but not 5 litres, and yet I know how big 2 litres is in non-petrol form 😂

I've given up bidding on weekend evenings since Christmas as anything I want tends to go miles over what I consider it's value, but then I'm looking for bargains. Not sure if this is the new "norm", or just one of those periodic fluctuations where demand outstrips supply - an influx of people who used to prefer to buy from Hattons perhaps? Saying that I have picked up a few good deals on a Sunday evening after everyone have finished going bezerk, but the best buys are usually the ones that finish mid-week before 7pm. No idea why people choose to finish an auction when everyone is at work? Selling wise, I don't time my auctions to end on the weekend as I always list for 10 days so potential buyers get the maximum chance to search and find it - I basically want the people actively searching for an item, rather than someone who just does a search for interesting items finishing in the next 48 hours on a Friday evening. As long as it ends around 8pm I'm happy. Everything i list is in the dirt cheap category so rarely is there another listing cheaper than mine. Some people would say that is risky but nowadays I always get the market value I want or more, probably because there are so many other sellers asking absurd prices. I guess I miss out on the weekends bidders with money burning a hole in their pocket, but the flipside is if your auction ends on a weekday evening then often your item is the only one available, while on a weekend you're up against sometimes 5+ people selling the same thing.

I think they look for keywords in your messages. I had a very odd experience when I bought some items in the usual way. The buyer didn't want to send through the post so offered to deliver. because he only lived about 20miles away I offered to meet him at a motorway service station half way. The problems started when we tried to swop mobile numbers as ebay would delete them. They obviously weren't reading them manually because I had paid and ebay had been paid. I agree with you on the unsoliticed offers though. My experience is they're normally dealers, and have the attitude that they're doing you a favour by offering (usually) less than it would go for if you let the auction run. I usually tell them I never cancel an auction ahead of time, but there's always the possibility that they get the hump, buy it anyway, and then leave crappy feedback

Wasn't sure where to put this as I'm guessing the manufacturer, but seeing people seem to frequently get unidentified random items with stuff they win on ebay, hopefully this isn't too irrelevant. About a month back I bought some spares I needed, and while I have identified 99% of the stuff I didn't want, a couple of packets have flummoxed me, and modern-ish Hornby(?) bits are a bit out of knowledge range unfortunately. No clue on the chimney shaped items apart from maybe a tender filler cap as they have some sort of hinge detail on it? The brake lever things I was thinking possibly a Hornby saint tender? Any ideas on their origins would be appreciated.

Think I'm in the clear unless you sell tat, or it's been posted on here

I keep saying this but made my last buy for a few months until I can offload a bit. A load of track and spare parts that was not attracting any interest for some reason. went for it mainly because I wanted a well hidden Triang pantograph and gambled on it not being broke so got lucky. what I wasn't prepared for was the amount of new old stock spare parts in there in tins and I spent a happy 3 hours yesterday sorting them out. Some of it will be kept for personal use but suffice to say for 22 pounds I have now overtaken Peter's Spares as the UK major stockist for princess valve brackets, Nellie wheel pick-ups and Hornby Dublo brush springs 😂

I always leave feedback but currently getting naused to leave feedback for two items. both never arrived and got refunded so the most positive I could leave would be neutral, and as a seller myself I'm always reluctant to leave non-positive feedback unless the seller really *****s me off, but it's still reminding me like I've forgotten. . need to have a feature to cancel leaving feedback.

I've been offered it for 35. A small price to pay for proof of time travel 😎

I think you're all being a bit cynical here. Personally, I think it's finally scientific proof that time travel is possible and Mr. L. Andrews used his knowledge to save an awful lot of money by future proofing his public notices. As the Euromillions lottery was only rolled out to catch potential timetravellers, don't be surprised if it's mysteriously cancelled in the coming weeks now the truth is out there. *puts on tin-foil hat*

I'd say it's almost certainly GSP. I stopped offering to sell overseas just before Brexit temporarily on a wait and see basis, but some hardy souls embraced the challenge and went through all the rules. Unfortunately the horror stories coming back from European customs just being deliberately obstructive made that permanent. - France was particularly bad. I don't know what it was like with goods coming in, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some tit for tat. It's highly likely it's settled down now, but the damage had been done and GSP stepped in. The advantage is customs won't mess around with ebay and if they do it's their responsibility. The downside is no-one overseas will pay the postage😂. A shame really because I didn't mind doing it even with the extra risk.

After about 4 years searching I finally struck lucky this weekend. I have a spare dismantled Triang double ended electric diesel. It's main problem was the pantograpth roof insert had been accosted by a maniac with a soldering iron who had put about 3 holes in it. - I'm not the world's best solderer but even I know you can't solder to plastic. In 4 plus years I've only seen a spare on eBay once and that went for 25 pounds. Anyway a job lot of smashed bodies came up with this piece intact and I got it for a tenner. Seeing the pantographs alone go for 30 pounds each, a complete but playworn working one should get me the investment back. The other bodies will go into a special " 99p pile of tat" lot I'm planning😎

yes I think it would appeal to someone with a big terminus layout having a tube line running by the side of it and maybe disappearing into a tunnel as long as you don't look too closely at it. 21 watchers currently.

I'm undecided if this is an exercise in putting far too much work into something that wasn't much cop in the first place, or something a HD collector would kill for. Ever-ready Tube train

I think I've finally cracked up. Browsing through the newly listed/ending soonest on my searches this morning, I realised I'd saved my own listing to my watch list. May try a sneaky bid near the end 😎

Do Hornby even cater for that market anymore? Not so much the toy train market but the entry level young adult market or those older returning to the hobby not looking to spend thousands. All I see at the low end is Beatles tat and generic 0-4-0 toy shunters or you can pay 80 quid for a jinty😂 The railroad plus range seem reasonable, but it's all diesels and if you wanted say a BR era medium sized steam loco and 3 mk 1's , it would cost you the best part of 350 pounds. There is no entry level train set unless you want the mallard at 250 pounds which I suppose is decent value. It's always dangerous to watch eBay for trends as it can change month to month but at the moment, mid sized nothing special 40+ year old locos are going for 30+ pounds on ebay, obviously to be used and the prices are rising fast so the demand is there. If you don't care about super detailed DCC stuff, a budget of 350 pounds gets you 5 locos, a job lot of wagons, coaches and track on ebay, while the other guy has his train and 3 coaches for a year for the same money if he's not after DCC (May have to lose a couple of coaches if he is). Personally I think Hornby rely on the collectors and purist modellers. Those that just want a train set moved on a long time ago I think.

Not so much a listing but a cry for help. For just 5 pounds a month* you can save these wretched items and The Enemies of Thomas will receive a donation enabling them to hunt down the culprit and confiscate his humbrol paints and plastic faces. (*29.3% interest via PayPal credit) Warning: cruelty to model trains Also an early candidate for a eBay bidding frenzy? Like it

It's that guy with the 1k toothbrush anyway. He's either mental or money laundering.

have to admit I didn't clock it was 0 gauge with all the zero's in the listing.

yeah, every now and then he seems to have a funny turn and puts something on at a competitive price. From memory , these nameplates went for about a tenner new ( name of company on ebay that does them escapes me), so two sets of sealed nameplates that I really needed for a tenner I think, including postage was a decent deal. The alternative was to buy direct from modelmaster and seeing this was only 5+ years ago, I'd probably still be waiting for delivery. 😂