E Bay Traders!

[Steps]

You want to set up your account in the country in which you are a legal citizen of, so in your case the UK. The UK will show up as your "location" as long as you are using an account to register that is based in the UK. In your descriptions you can put "All items ship from Thailand" so please allow X amount of time for delivery. As far as taxes are concerned you need to check your country's tax policy. In the US you are allowed to make X amount a year before filing on your tax returns.

Be prepared to get many conflicting opinions about the legalities concerning your post. If i can be of help PM me.

That is not true. I have had 2 eBay accounts for more than 11 years now. I can change the "location" country any time I like.

Uh taxes???

Hi there Elektrified, so do you have one in your home country and one in Thailand? When you reach the respective amount with your home country one you switch??

Cheers

[getithere328]

In my opinion selling products from Thailand from a UK account looks dodgy and feels like the seller is dishonest and misrepresenting where the products are actually coming from.

Personally i think the seller should have their account in the location that they are selling/shipping from.

I agree and so will ebay. If you have a UK ebay account, ebay know your ip address. If your in Thailand and log into your UK account and try to start selling then ebay will have none of it.

I looked into this with ebay and they said that although I had a 100% UK buying and selling record, I would have to start all over again if I started selling for Thailand.

Hope that helps.

[elektrified]

You want to set up your account in the country in which you are a legal citizen of, so in your case the UK. The UK will show up as your "location" as long as you are using an account to register that is based in the UK. In your descriptions you can put "All items ship from Thailand" so please allow X amount of time for delivery. As far as taxes are concerned you need to check your country's tax policy. In the US you are allowed to make X amount a year before filing on your tax returns.

Be prepared to get many conflicting opinions about the legalities concerning your post. If i can be of help PM me.

That is not true. I have had 2 eBay accounts for more than 11 years now. I can change the "location" country any time I like.

Uh taxes???

Hi there Elektrified, so do you have one in your home country and one in Thailand? When you reach the respective amount with your home country one you switch??

Cheers

Hi there, I have one account in the USA and one in Germany. But I can use those accounts for buying and selling in any country of the world. There is no "eBay" Thailand, its called shopping.co.th and is only within Thailand. I tend to use the ebay.com as opposed to ebay.de account for selling more often because of more exposure in the search results internationally. But I can list in Germany with the USA account and vice versa. Also I can list in USD, Euros, GBP, AUD, etc.

[Nio]

For all the ebay sellers here, I have done some extensive research on Thai products selling on EBAY and there is only one product I found with any regularities that seems to sell.

The majority of Thai products never seem to have any bids at all or out of 1000 of the same product maybe one is sold.

Does any ebay seller in Thailand have any factual insight into this?

Factually, Whatever you find on Sukumvit,, Sathorn, the night bizzare in Lampini (you get the drift) are usually very poor sellers on eBay. Thailand does have many unique products found outside of major tourist areas, especially many OTOP products, but it is best to go to the source which depending on where you are can require some travel. Find a niche product for your niche market.

Example: I have a Japanese friend whose parents and some other relatives came for a visit last year and went to some of the silk villages in Surin and said that they had never seen such fine quality silk and patterns. Understandable, since Surin is known to produce probably the finest silk in the whole kingdom as well as SE Asia (and no, this is not my niche ) but it could be a very lucrative product to sell if you had a buyer on the other end.

"Jim Thompson Company" which is known to sell very high end silk, commissions the silk villages in Surin to produce about 90% of their silk products.Once these products hit Bangkok, and other major cities in Asia, the mark up is enormous. If you know where to go you can get this silk for a fraction of the price. Knowing your market is key.

Very good info, thank you

[mizzi39]

You want to set up your account in the country in which you are a legal citizen of, so in your case the UK. The UK will show up as your "location" as long as you are using an account to register that is based in the UK. In your descriptions you can put "All items ship from Thailand" so please allow X amount of time for delivery. As far as taxes are concerned you need to check your country's tax policy. In the US you are allowed to make X amount a year before filing on your tax returns.

Be prepared to get many conflicting opinions about the legalities concerning your post. If i can be of help PM me.

That is not true. I have had 2 eBay accounts for more than 11 years now. I can change the "location" country any time I like.

Uh taxes???

Uh taxes?? Never had a problem in the tax department. I am just speaking from personal experience. Other posts were concerned with consumer confidence. Like I stated before, your credentials on eBay has everything to do with your feedback history and that is how you develop consumer confidence. eBay is set up like an honor system. Since I had over 100 positive feedback's from buying and selling in the States before moving here, I have not had any problem with "bidder's confidence" even with stating that "All items ship from Thailand". As a matter of fact 95% ++ of eBayers appreciate being provided with this information.

It is important to keep in mind that eBay is only ONE avenue for Ecommerce and in my opinion should be used as a medium only. It is a good site to make a few bucks and that is about it. Anyone serious about selling should build their own site as well, at least that is what i did. I have it registered in the States and sell from here, so it really does not matter where your IP address is. If you are looking for an affordable web host PM me.