04-02-2025 08:26 AM
Time to recertify your information for Inform Act compliance. If you don’t certify this information by Apr 24, 2025, a payout block will be placed on your account. |
04-02-2025 09:01 AM
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04-02-2025 10:18 AM
There's some posts on the .com forums:
04-02-2025 11:12 AM
@ericsells75 wrote:
Super spammy
But it's not: https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/resources/inform-consumers-act
04-02-2025 11:35 AM
is this related to the volume of sales/transactions that are now in effect before eBay involves the CRA on your behalf?
04-02-2025 11:39 AM
THIS IS FOR THE USA ONLY
04-02-2025 11:51 AM
I am in Canada, so do you mean that this is for anyone who sells on .com?
04-02-2025 11:53 AM
I sure wish I had a high volume of sales. Does a couple a week mostly less that $1 count?
04-02-2025 11:57 AM
That should have been $10!
04-02-2025 12:00 PM
Have my doubts - I sell on .com, but registered on .ca. Didn't receive this message to date.
04-02-2025 12:00 PM
If you sell on list or sell on .com then yes I would assume they will apply.
https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/resources/inform-consumers-act
Your trust in eBay is at the heart of everything we do and it’s no different with the INFORM Consumers Act. This law ensures a safe online buying experience for consumers shopping on a marketplace like eBay while protecting the privacy of individual and small business sellers.
We’re committed to ensuring a trusted and safe marketplace for buyers and sellers, and we’ll continue to advocate on your behalf.
If your address is your residential address, only your state and country will be shown.
If you use a different address for product returns, then that return address will be displayed.
04-02-2025 01:21 PM
I also list on.COM and never received the email...but I may also add that I am a "casual /infrequent" seller with a sale here and there throughout the year ... In the past I have had the message from eBay (maybe it's a once a year thing) to confirm my account details/personal information and I believe the last one was about 6 months ago.
04-03-2025 12:15 AM
And I recently had to confirm my ID here on dotCA.
The passport I had used originally was not acceptable, and I finally went with my BC Identity card.
This seems to be part of an effort to stop fencing of stolen goods online, by insisting that sellers of new goods prove that they were purchased and did not fall off a truck.
04-03-2025 02:01 PM
@triber wrote:I am in Canada, so do you mean that this is for anyone who sells on .com?
I suspect it is because your account from 1998 was originally registered on .com. the Inform Act applies to Americans, other countries may have their own requirements that eBay has to comply with.
This account I post here with is super low volume (only a few hundred Dollars in sales last year) so they have not bothered me. That said I get notifications from eBay on a regular basis to sign up for an eBay MasterCard, the invitation clearly states that only US residents can apply. So whay do they send them to me (have been for at least 10 years), probably because deep in their systems they think I'm an American.
Accounts I opened many years ago directly on .ca do not recieve these messages.
04-03-2025 02:06 PM
@reallynicestamps wrote:And I recently had to confirm my ID here on dotCA.
The passport I had used originally was not acceptable, and I finally went with my BC Identity card.
This seems to be part of an effort to stop fencing of stolen goods online, by insisting that sellers of new goods prove that they were purchased and did not fall off a truck.
It's a lot more than stolen goods.........mostly it's for
People engaging in money laundering
People who are either illegal residents or legal but do not hold a Green Card or work permits.
People involved in tax evasion
04-03-2025 07:44 PM
@recped wrote:
@triber wrote:I am in Canada, so do you mean that this is for anyone who sells on .com?
I suspect it is because your account from 1998 was originally registered on .com. the Inform Act applies to Americans, other countries may have their own requirements that eBay has to comply with.
This account I post here with is super low volume (only a few hundred Dollars in sales last year) so they have not bothered me. That said I get notifications from eBay on a regular basis to sign up for an eBay MasterCard, the invitation clearly states that only US residents can apply. So whay do they send them to me (have been for at least 10 years), probably because deep in their systems they think I'm an American.
Accounts I opened many years ago directly on .ca do not recieve these messages.
I'm in the same boat, I've had to confirm my ID on this account. I too was first registered on the dot com account (before there was a CA version), so when the inform act came about I was asked to upload ID.
C.