As for the 2 payments.. You have to remember. First, ebay takes the payment for themselves to pay the sales tax. The other part is sent directly to the buyer. Ebay would have to take the full payment, and then transfer the money for it to be one payment. Since paypal does the payment part for the sellers part, doing it in one payment would make it so that the money would have to be transferred 2 times for the buyer to get the money, not just once. That is where the problem is. In the store, they take the full payment, one part that goes to them, and one part that they collect for the state. The problem with the seller sending the money is.. Well, unless you are a high seller that is doing it as a way of life, and a business, most normal people that only have a few things that they sell, like at a garage sale, will not be sending it in as income. In those cases, people would not send in the sales tax to the state, and it would cause a lot of headache for regular people like me, that have only sold say 10 things over the years.. This just simplifies things for regular occasional users, and at the same time, it makes the state happy because they are guaranteed the money sent to them.
I agree with them.. If your bank account was balanced, then this just would not have happened from the start.. If it was just a $2 item, why couldn't you wait 1 day, and verify that the money was there, and the deposit was made before you bought anything. I know when I pay my bills, that is the first thing I do.. Check my balance to make sure that the money is there before I pay anything. This comes down to too much assuming, and less checking, which is what causes problems. It is no different from people buying things.. They just look at a picture, and assume things, and do not read descriptions, and then when something happens.. They find out that it was a stock picture, or such.. and something is off.. Then they get mad because things were not as they assumed, where if they took 2 minutes to read the description first, it never would have happened. I remember seeing bad reviews for an extension cord because people looked at the picture and thought it was black, and when it came in, it was green. The title, description, etc all said it was green, but they just assumed by looking at a picture. I think all people need to stop at times like this and just take that 2 minutes to check things out and not just assume without verifying things.. It would save a lot of problems if people did.
