Posted on 03/14/2010 3:59:46 PM PDT by jsh3180
My EBAY account!
This month will be my last on EBAY and Pay Pal!
I tried several others and they were all pretty much useless.
Thanks for the ping!
btt
Bet on it.
I am trying Upillar.com but no bites yet. It has been a while since I have looked at the specifics regarding feedback and other stuff.
Why are you so sure that the IRS will not continue to exist???
They dont want to cut fraud and spending, they want to destroy free enterprise.
Everything is just how Congress wants it in this nation. EVERYTHING. They have their grubby, greedy, sadistic, bitter fingers in everything. Nothing happens without their OK. The IRS is what they decide it is. China is no longer buying our bonds. We can’t fund our govt spending without massive deficits. They “need” every cent they can find.
“Sellers will start only taking money orders.”
Ebay doesn’t allow it. I hear Amazon did or will be following suit.
Cash will make a comeback
I disagree with most of the comments here...
If your running a business and making a profit you need to pay your taxes. Them sending you a 1099K doesn’t mean you owe that much tax. Indeed, you may not owe any if no profit is involved in the sale. However as much as I dislike income tax, if were going to have it then everybody needs to pay.
No here is a novel idea:
Since the Federal Government derives its power (constitutionally) from the states, taxes should be on the states based on its population derived from the decentenial census. This approach would do severl things: 1) limit the power grab by the feds, 2) fix the revenue stream for a period of ten years (which would help budget forcasting, and 3) limit the power of the federal government. Of course the basis for this to happen is elimination of the Internal Revenue Code.
The States need to take control of these United States.
eBAY owns PayPal....and that's the MAIN payment method they accept. No M.O's, no personal checks.
What are you wanting to sell?
They have already changed it to insist that you use Paypal. This is my last year on ebay. It used to be fun, but it has become more restrictive, and not seller friendly. Buyers can blackmail you with bad feedback if they get buyers remorse or bid more in the heat of the auction then they should have; sellers cannot leave reciprocal feedback, they have to open a case with ebay and ebay tends to find for the buyer. I’m done.
We are past the point, IMO where you could never know when you might be breaking a law. Thus they can "haul you in, round you up, tax you, tag you, levy you, charge you, surcharge you" to death!!!
All the while we hear tell that our "great leaders" lie cheat and steal...and it doesn't seem they are held accountable. Not to mention they are running the country into the ground??
It has gone to hell. Since they changed the policy so that a seller cannot leave bad feedback on a buyer, I have had buyers actually use it to get a partial refund and keep the item by claiming its got a problem they were not made aware of, no matter how many close up pictures I post. Even saying its “in rough shape” is not good enough. I sell used books, chachkies, from the 50’s, stuff like that, nothing new. Ever since this new rule, I am suddenly getting buyers, who, no matter how descriptive I am of the item, say they are disappointed but they want to keep it and get a “partial refund” from my Paypal or will leave bad feedback. I have 100% positive feedback and this had never happened before in my 6 years selling on ebay. It is not a coincidence; ebay’s buyer bias has created a new crop of scammers. I’m done.
The IRS is “too big to fail”. I don’t believe that I will ever see a flat tax, or a more fair and simple tax system. Too much power is already in the hands of too few.
Heck, I’ve been hearing about a balanced federal budget for nearly my entire life (40 years) and that has never happened either.
I’ve gotten to the point at which I am glad I am in my 50s. I would not want to be a young person and have to deal with what is coming down the pike during the next several decades. For the first time, I am sorry I had kids and that they will have to be adults in a country that has our federal government.
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