VAT rip-off by eBay | Members help members

lollebolle123 · 2026-01-18T21:13:44.408000Z

Hello eBay, I have been a keen eBayer for about 20 years and enjoy buying and selling on the platform. Today I won an auction for a book for 112 euros, wanted to pay for it right away, but the eBay checkout calculated 133.28 euros for the purchase and justified this with VAT to be charged. The seller is in Germany, I am in Germany, I have already bought a lot of items from this seller, there is absolutely no reason or cause why VAT should suddenly no longer be included in the purchase price. The eBay help pages on the subject of VAT provide no information about this nonsense, only incorrect rambling. The seller also did not know what this nonsense was suddenly supposed to mean.Since I am not willing to let eBay rip me off and annoy me, I canceled the purchase. What can I do to get this error fixed by eBay and prevent it from happening again? Since eBay's AI assistant is completely useless, maybe someone here can reply. Best regards lollebolle123

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