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My Way News IRS May Consider eBay Sales Taxable Income Wired News: IRS May Tax Your EBay Sales Ohio law would require auction license for eBay sellers - Mar. 7, 2005 AnandTech News: IRS may label eBay sales as tax revenue Wired News: U.S. EBay Seller Refuses Canucks EBay Spawns Niche Market (Internet) Support for proposed eBay strike fades | The Register Hacked off eBay users are threatening to launch a week-long boycott of the auction site from Friday. eBay backtracks as it cuts some fees | The Register Wrote Cobb: "Within the next 90 days, we'll shut down most of our automated email responses. Our users will get a 'real' email response to their questions - you'll hear from a human being who will try to help you with your problem or question right off the bat. We will only use auto responses to acknowledge receipt of spam or policy violation reports. YEAH SURE! How scammers run rings round eBay | The Register 'Integrity of eBay markeplace' at risk - sellers' group | The Register A quick trawl of news stories in recent weeks reveals the PR problem facing eBay. Illegal items such as drugs and weapons can be sourced with little effort. Stolen - or non existent - goods are also up for sale, although eBay buyers often only find out to their cost when it's too late. For instance, Cleveland.com reports that police have broken up a $100,000 (£53,000) a year scam in which car radios were stolen from car dealerships only to be sold on Ebay. While a three-month investigation by MSNBC.com revealed the easy availability of illegal drugs such as anabolic steroids used by people looking to bulk up their bodies. JUST LIKE THE ANIMALS ARE BEING MURDERED TO MAKE MONEY ON EBAY!!!!! "During the past year, our members have seen the eBay marketplace weaken. While competition in the market has increased, we believe that the state of mind of the shopper is the primary underlying issue. Conversion and average selling prices have slid across most categories. Buyers appear more price conscious than ever. We believe that a shift of balance of buyers versus sellers as well as an erosion of buyer confidence from fraud experiences and media attention has caused the flattening growth of eBay US. Unfortunately, buyers still perceive eBay as a flea market with shady sellers and poor customer service." What's more, there are genuine concerns that eBay doesn't seem to be acting to address the issues. Late last year eBay users in Spain threatened to boycott the service unless the company addressed their concerns. In the UK, eBay regulars are just as bothered at the way the operation is heading. One UK eBayer told us: "One of our main gripes is the ease at which someone can join eBay using false details. At the moment anyone can complete the online registration forms and put in any made up address they desire." This, he fears, leads to "auction wrecking" and other disruptive behaviour which goes to undermine consumer and etailer confidence. This is echoed by PESA: "We believe that eBay needs to implement policies that will prevent people with negative intentions from doing excessive damage to innocent shoppers. eBay should verify the address and identity of sellers as well as place restrictions on selling activity until certain criteria are met. A new seller should not have an issue providing a verifiable name and address before needing to list 50 plasma televisions or laptop computers." Internet fraud is easy, says judge... | The Register eBay position paper | eroding Marketplace integrity Terapeak Adds New Features to eBay Research Tools WELL THEY COULD IMPROVE THEIR SYSTEM A WHOLE LOT MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Waxy.org: Daily Log: eBay to RSS KEYWORDS???????? Techdirt:Selling On eBay As A PR Tactic Gnashing teeth about eBay fees - Jan. 21, 2005 The Auction Guild Inc - ebaY Feb '05 Fee Increase The site's founder wanted to know how best to give. He asked, he listened. Here's what he learned ROTFLMAO The Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled Experiment USATODAY.com - 10 years ago, eBay changed the world
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