Blocket Reviews

Blocket policies are a sham

Beware that if you sell more than one item on Blocket you are liable to be classified as a legal entity by Blocket This means you have to sell your items as a legal entity company and oblige to consumer laws that are applicable to legal entities companies businesses There is no objective criteria to determine if you are a legal entity it is up to the support desk employee to determine that If you refuse to disguise yourself as a legal entity because you are not a legal entity company business you will be banned from the site Blocket tries to force you to advertise as a legal entity even though you cannot oblige to consumer laws It is a breach of their own policy Blocket Private Ads is for use by individuals authorized to enter into contracts as set forth above in these Terms ofUse Blocket Company Ads is for businesses Blocket reserves the right to determine when an ad is business-like Thefollowing are categorized as companies Legal entitiesAdvertiser with goods sold with deductible VATBusiness advertisers undertake to comply with consumer protection laws including the Consumer Purchase Act theConsumer Services Act and the Price Information Act and the General Complaints Board s recommendations If you try to reason with the support desk these are the answers you will get Hello Thank you for your e-mail Your ads has been denied in the review as they is company-like We have made the assessment that you should advertise as a company on the site This does not necessarily mean that you have a business but only that we want you to advertise as a company Change to Company F retag in your ad and it will be approved and published You do this by changing the ad and clicking in Company F retag instead of Private Privat at the top of the ad form Note that this can only be done via a computer as the mobile platform does not support the insertion of business ads Kind regards MartinBlocket Customer ServiceHi Thanks for your reply Even if you post ads as a private individual they should be added as a company if the sale is perceived to be to an extent that exceeds what is considered a hobby activity They re not about what the ad looks like or that your ad looks like a company ad The Blocket s rule document states among other things Declaration of sales The income from single sales for example sales of goods and services are you not required to declare you do not need to include in the income tax return if the total profit is less than 50 000 SEK However if you sell goods regularly you should include the income in your tax return regardless of whether you have earned a lot or some money You report your income as a hobby or as an economic activity depending on the purpose of the business and its extent Read more at the Swedish Tax Agency website The Swedish Tax Agency states among other things If the business is independent and durable but not profit-making it is considered as a hobby Taxation takes place on its own within the income category service and you pay your own social security contributions in the form of self-contributions website Kind regards HannaBlocket Customer ServiceHi Thank you for your email and hope everything is good with you My name is Merve and i am going to help you in this case We can see that you have a lot of ads in the same category we at the customer service have the right to stop someone if the ads gets a bit too much On our website you can also read this The Business ads block is for businesses Block reserves the right to determine when an ad is business-like Here is the link to it but it is in swedish website I can also see that my colleagues have explained this to you so if you want to have your ads up on the site you have to follow the rules Sincerely MerveBlocket Customer ServiceHello In plain and simple your ads have been rejected because of the amount of Bicycle accessories ads you have published To answer your question we do not have a fixed amount limit of how many ads you can create before you are considered business like our review departement do individual assessments in every case As my colleagues have mentioned we will not accept any private ads for bicycle accessories if you want to publish them you will have to create a company ad Best regardsRomeo