Unrecognised Acronym on ebay listings 'UKPL'

Now that everyone has had their fun ... I think I have the answer

Although I still don't know exactly what UKPL stands for,

it might be United Kingdom Private Limited [Company]

... I checked the Seller's legal information, and they show a GB VAT number, which I then checked here: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatRequest.html

http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatRequest.html

Sure enough, they have a registered office in Manchester.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 19/11/2018 00:11:38

As it seems to be unique to that one eBay seller, time.ing, why not ask him/her?

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Posted by Michael Gilligan on 18/11/2018 09:54:41:

[ it features on quite a few ebay listings, not just that one ]

and, later:

if you simply search ebay for UKPL you will see what I mean

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 19/11/2018 09:01:00

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Thanks for that, Mick

MichaelG.

I asked a question:

and I have an answer:

亲爱的顾客您好
通过询问我们产品的开发人员，我们确认了UKPL没有任何意义。由于我们的失误使得我们产品的标题出现了错误，谢谢您为我们指正，非常感谢。

Translation

Hello, dear customer. By asking the developers of our products, we confirmed that UKPL doesn't make any sense. As our mistake made the title of our product wrong, thank you for pointing out for us, thank you very much.

Thanks, both

MichaelG.

恭喜您是第100位客户，询问UKPL的含义是什么？你赢了£1,000,000美元。请将您的银行详情发送给我们。

恭喜您是第100位客户，询问UKPL的含义是什么？你赢了£1,000,000美元。请将您的银行详情发送给我们。

I thought it might be the usual bunch of young women wanting to meet me.😉

I cannot help decoding the acronym after reading this thread I did learn a little bit about how these Chinese sellers operate.

Against my better judgement I still continue to purchase some items from sellers I do not trust. I have been bitten a couple of times so now only buy if I am prepared to not get the item or not use it if it arrives. One only has to look at the negative feedback of this one seller that Michael has linked to (42 negative in the last month alone!) to know that most of the eBay listing is plain lies. There must be thousands of eBay sellers that list items as 'UK stock' but say their location is 'UK', 'Liverpool', 'Essex' etc but then show an unreadable business in China. I presume there must be Chinese owned 'fulfilment' centres in various locations in the UK which actually make up the shipments.

Like most things in life, eBay is not what it was, whilst eBay purport to have strict rules and regulations they certainly do not impose them, if anything they err on the side of the dodgy sellers rather than the man in the street.

Whinge over

Ian P

Whether this supplier uses one I know not, but HMRC has clamped down as it appears some companies were not paying their VAT bills, but instead closing down and reappearing under a new name.

Under new rules the fulfilment houses pass the VAT direct to HMRC.

That's my understanding, I may be wrong...

I confess I buy imported gewgaws from eBay, but only if I can wait for it and the cost is small enough it doesn't matter if it never arrives or is junk. Strangely the electronics and 3D printer bits seem to be OK, but I've had 'joke value only' when buying cheap drills or cutters.

Neil

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Yes, 42 negative in the last month looks bad ... but still we see this: **LINK**

https://www.topratedseller.com/ebay/time.ing

MichaelG.

恭喜您是第100位客户，询问UKPL的含义是什么？你赢了£1,000,000美元。请将您的银行详情发送给我们。

It's not come out quite right, Neil. Among other infelicities, "£1,000,000美元" reads "£1000 American dollars".

A lot of this is all Greek to me

Which says a lot about my linguistic abilities!

Howard

It's supposed to...