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Can buyers see the sellers address?

If I sell an item here will the buyer be able to see my address? I want to list my Madonna Collection and promote those listings on my Youtube channel… but i don't want everyone to know my address. 

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They will only see your address on the shipping label if you sell to them.

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The only place where buyers might see your address is as the return address on packages that you send them.  If you are concerned about privacy, you can rent a PO Box and use that as your return address.

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This won't apply to you initially, but

If you plan on selling a lot you may want to familiarize yourself with the Inform Consumers Act.

 

The INFORM Consumers Act | Seller Center (ebay.com)

 

If you reach a certain level of sales, eBay is required to include your name and address in purchase confirmation and order emails. 

 

If your business is at your residential address you can request an exception.

 

The link is on that page.

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How do you request the exception?

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Only the buyer will see the return address (which you can put as something else) and honestly it isn't worth worrying about.  As someone with a 18,000 subscriber channel which is actually about ebay I still don't sell more than about 1 percent of my items to viewers. 

 

A lot of my youtube friends with larger channels than mine have PO box addresses however plenty more say it is a waste of their time and money to do that, as 5 minutes of searching by anyone dedicated will shake free their home address anyway.

 

Easiest thing to do if you are still worried is when it comes time to actually ship the order then ship it through Pirate Ship and put your brother in law's work address or something similar as the return address.  Doing it through Pirate ship makes it impossible for you to mess that part up. 

 

Having had a look at your channel, it seems you totally switched streams from being a Madonna channel to being a Disney channel.  The youtube algorythm does not like that. I suggest downloading all your Madonna videos, deleting them from your current youtube channel and slowly releasing them onto a second Madonna channel. That could seriously help your channel out, and worst case scenario it isn't going to hurt anything. Particularly if you decide to do more Madonna videos later.

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Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread HERE if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.

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