WHY? I have being eBaying for 25 years now. I only have 2700 FEEDBACKS a 100% But only 2700. That is about 1000 feedbacks a year. That is really not much. I live in a small resort community and 25 years ago the entre area closed down for the winter. Well there was this little start up company also started 25 years ago called eBay! A Idea for selling their PEZ dispensers. I'm sure taxes was not on their minds at the time and they may of just needed money.
So during the off season I started selling things around the house and it did help put food on the table and helped pay rent and for other goods and services as needed. So in 25 years I used the system only as needed.
I know there are other folks around the country that need and use this platform as well. And I hate to lose it or see it in ruins.
When you open the door and start to try and MICRO MANAGE it. It opens the door to a whole lot of problems THAT FOLKS AND THE IRS just don't need. AS SIMPLE AS CHASING CORRECT INFORMATION.
I was once told computers are only as smart as the as the folks entering the information.
It's easy to turn a hundred dollars into ten thousand dollars on paper by misplacing a DOT.
DO YOU REALLY TRUST eBay to provide CORRECT INFORMATION ? A friend of mine and fellow eBayer just went over numbers for sales on eBay. WHAT A MESS. They show BIN numbers $800 as SOLD PRICES when the final sale was only a few dollars THINK ABOUT THIS.
DELAYS DELAYS SHUT DOWN OF ACCOUNTS SLOW DOWNS OF TAX RETURNS And a whole army of control freaks running the show with no end in sight.
eBay will need COUSTOMER SERVICE SERVICE STAFF To RUN CUSTOMER SERVICE STAFF to Control CUSTOMER SERVICE
The SAME with the IRS. We are talking about a major change that affects THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS by lowering this 20000 dollar standard AND THEN WHATS NEXT. Yard sales lawn mowing baby sitting. A good baby sitter can earn thousands.
Just think of you running a REAL BUSINESS But now because of this flood of nickel dime sales, things get so confused your own taxes become screwed up. DON'T THINK IT CAN HAPPEN.
Let me end by saying WE ALL SEE IT, AND HAVE SEEN IT. And this is at the 20000 level. If you have not seen it JUST WATCH THE NEWS.
It's almost like the dot com bubble. WORD WAS THEY WERE MAKING MILLIONS. When you peal back the covers. There really was no money.
END OF THIS STORY I will say this whole idea has made me really look at what I was doing on eBay as I pealed back the covers. There really is no money being made. It's a LOT OF WORK, HOWEVER IT WAS A NEEDED SOURCE OF NEGATIVE INCOME AS NEEDED OVER THE COURSE OF 25 years of a UP AND DOWN PEACE AND WAR DAYS ECONOMY.
A SINGLE eBayer STAFF IS YOU. YOU ARE THE > Manager, Product sourcing AD RESEARCH SPECIALIST, AD PRODUCER, THE WRITER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, WAREHOUSING JUNK, THE COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT, PACKING & WRAPPING SPECIALIST, RSPONSIBLE FOR PACKING AND OFFICE SUPPLIES, BOX BUILDER, AND SHIPPER to SHIPPER RUNNER. RETURNS DEPARTMENT. And getting rid of over stock and failed product listings. And I'm sure you can add a few more into this mix. And you sold a $20.00 item YOU HOPE.
And lets add how many people you help to support who earn PAYCHECKS. As they say every action has a reaction.
AND NOW THIS POOR PERSON IS THE SUBJECT OF ADDED STRESS OF SELLING OVER $600 for a entire year.
I SAY RISE THE CEILING TO 25000,00 .
THANK YOU eBay for being there. As I needed you. Sorry but I do tell folks if you have A GOOD JOB with GOOD PEOPLE > KEEP IT! It's rough when your kicked to the streets.
