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Rose (& Greyman)

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  1. I'm hoping some of you with better French than I can help with a point that's puzzling me about the new auto-entrepreneur scheme.

    If, as it appears to say, the 23% rate (for service businesses) includes cotisations AND tax how does this take account of the sliding tax scales. If my earnings are so low that I would be paying no tax surely I'm being penalised ? And if I have other income is the whole of my tax banding available for this or is some of it taken up by auto-entrepreneur earnings ?

    I am planning to find an accountant to advise on a business venture next year but it would be helpful to have some knowledge of this scheme under my belt and I just can't get this straight in my head. Any help would be appreciated.

  2. I have the same issues, as yet unresolved.

    Near us we drive on a main road to the next village then make a right turn to the following village - all very simple you would think. But Garmin takes us off the main road about 10 metres before the junction, around the back about 4 houses which sit on the junction (down narrow alleys) and then back on the road about 10 metres down the right turn ! Takes about 2 mins longer to negotiate the alleys and may save 2 metres in distance. Madness.

    I've tried changing settings but it still happens and I have the latest downloads.

  3. Changing the Windows location didn't work for me Quillan and I tried a reboot too just in case. I'm on XP Home.

    And Ron, I've joined eBay France with completely new registration details and logon. That didn't help either !

    The only solution that does the trick that I can find is Krusty's proxy server in Germany. Even the other proxy locations on that service didn't work, just the German one.

    I just can't fathom the purpose of this. Even in the UK car sales on eBay are exempt from the requirement to accept PayPal so why block any users from seeing items ? As WB has said it seems to have arisen following the case in France against eBay for allowing counterfeit goods to be sold on it's site. But counterfeit Skodas ?? I think this must be a side effect of some clever tricks gone wrong at eBay. Hopefully they'll sort it soon.

  4. I checked all this Ron and I seem to be 100% French as far as eBay France are concerned. No trace of any UK details anywhere. However, as I said, I did have a UK registration on this PC before so perhaps some cookie-type file is still lurking somewhere. But Quillan deleted all cookies and that didn't work [6]

    Krusty's idea may be valid. Unfortunately I don't have a German  proxy so can't try it. The closest I have is Swiss which doesn't work but maybe because it's not EU.

    Can't believe it's so hard ! I wouldn't be impressed if I was selling and a large part of my target couldn't see the details of my item !!

  5. Thanks Ron. I'm doing exactly that. Log in to www.ebay.fr and I even have a separate login name on that site (different from my UK login). I can see the list of cars etc but when I click on an individual car to see it's details I get the aforesaid error message. But when I view say, a camera, which takes PayPal I can see it (but not a camera which doesn't accept PayPal !).

    Really puzzling that it works for some but not others.

  6. I don't think it's linked to any of Ron's suggestions. In my case I was looking at campervans from a PC in France, the items were in France and all were for collection only i.e. no postage. All my searches were related to France (in fact sorted by distance from my postcode). None of them were viewable beyond the initital list.

    However, when I switched to cameras I could view those with the PayPal 'P' symbol next to the listing but not those without it.

    So I conclude the problem is linked to the seller offering PayPal. But I still don't know the solution [:(]

  7. For some time I've been struggling to understand why I can view some items on eBay France but not others. After a lot of research I've found it seems to relate to eBay UK's decision to not allow listings which don't accept PayPal (if that isn't too many negatives !). The result is that I cannot view French items which don't accept PayPal - they appear on the list of items but when I click on the detail link it says

    Cher membre,

    Malheureusement, l'accès à cet objet a été bloqué en raison de restrictions légales en vigueur dans certains pays. Conformément à ces restrictions, nous nous efforçons de bloquer l'affichage des objets concernés. Nous regrettons de vous informer que pour des raisons techniques, certaines annonces ne rentrant pas dans le cadre de ces restrictions peuvent ne pas être accessibles aux utilisateurs. Nous vous prions d'accepter nos excuses pour tout désagrément et nous espérons que vous trouverez d'autres objets intéressants sur eBay.

    Merci.

    Does anyone have any idea if this can be resolved ? It seems PayPal is less widely accepted here than in UK and of course rarely for motor vehicles.

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