Looking at the ebay comminity Q and A board, it seems that alot of sellers like myself and many on here are being told by Ebay that they are going to have to register as a business seller or lose the right to sell at all. Business sellers have to follow adhere to distance selling regulations, display their address on all listings, and lose the free listing for items 99p or under.
Many of the people targeted are selling baby and children's clothes, second hand, clearly just their own stuff they are selling on, not in huge volume either. It seems like ebay have some complicated algorithm to seek out private sellers who they think are running a business, but they won't say what exactly is flagging these sellers up. I haven't recieved an email, but I've seen posts from people who sell a similar volume and type of goods to me being forced to register as a business, I think I'll forget the whole thing if they come after me, wondered if anyone on here had been contacted?