Doug,
Actually, I don't think that's correct. It's been a long time since I read
any eBay fine print, but I believe it is set up so that eBay is just a "venue"
-- it just "rents space" to the actual auctioneers (who are the individual
sellers). That way, everyone who sells on eBay is an "independent
contractor/auctioneer" -- not an "employee" in any sense of eBay's -- and
thus eBay is not responsible for whatever these "independent auctioneers" say or
sell in their eBay auctions. It's a fine legal point, but it's analogous to eBay
just "renting the warehouse" out to a bunch of auctioneers who want to come in
set up some estate or antiques auctions. I know this is how our lawyers advised
us to set up MoviePosterBid.
So, technically, I think if Ohio requires anyone who auctions stuff in Ohio
to get a state license to do so, that they could require anyone living in Ohio
who "auctions on eBay" to get said license -- and that they could actually
make it stick.
Sounds like a good way for some politicians to lose a lot of votes in
the next election, tho...
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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005
16:04
Subject: Re: [MOPO] ebay and ohio
OK Scott, you broke on of your golden rules!
That
said, don't forget the Black Cat who is running for Governor the
next
election. I'm sure he will get top support from the higher up for
shorting
voting machines in more democratic areas in the state.
I
heard this news on Sunday morning about Ohio wanting sellers to
buy
auctioneers licenses to sell on Ebay.
I thought right away I
should sell my ebay stock, because if one state gets
away with this, then
others will follow. Then I got to think, they legally
can't make this law
stick, because ebay is technically is the auctioneer,
not the sellers. If
you think about it, it's no different than somebody
selling at any
auction, including Sotheby's, Christies, or even Vintage
auction. As long
as you have to pay a fee to ebay & a percent, that makes
ebay the
auctioneer.
I think this is going to be like Ohio wanting people to
pay sales tax at the
end of the year on your on line
purchases.
Don't forget the Invisible Man wanting to cut taxes when
our state is
loosing millions every week!
Doug Ball
Also stuck
in the middle!
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From: "Scott Burns"
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Sent:
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] ebay and
ohio
>I really hate this state....
>
> With all
the serious problems we face here in Ohio (the exodus of the
>
young,
> inadequate school financing, huge pending budget cuts), leave
it to our
> dumb-ass legislature to continue its track record of
sticking its nose
> into
> non-issues.
>
> Not to
offend any Republicans out there, but this is what happens when a
>
legislature is dominated by a single party with a bizarre agenda.
They'd
> rather deal with changing out state constitution to deny
legal rights to
> unmarried people, authorize the sale of
anti-abortion license plates and
> create an Ohio version of the
Patriot Act. How an inadequately researched
> law dealing with eBay
can come to the top of the priority list and even be
> signed by our
impotent Governor Taft (AKA The Invisible Man)--well its
>
just
> mind boggling.
>
> I really hate this
state.
>
> Scott
> MoPo List Owner
> Sadly stuck in
Ohio
>
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