The states NEVER intended on individual sellers to collect any taxes;
ebay knew it would be required to collect the taxes and precisely why
they cried for help from sellers to stop states from implementing the
collecting of taxes into law.
It is “double”; you can bet each and every state receiving sales tax
collected by ebay gets the same small stipend the average brick and
mortar business received for doing just the same. I did the same for
years; wasn’t much but bet on the fact that ...
In the “good old days” honest sellers didn’t try and cheat ebay out of
their FVF’s; only selling cheats sold items for 99 cents plus $100
shipping. Instead of ebay kicking off all the dishonest, cheating
sellers they chose to keep them by punishing h...
PAYPAL only raised fees after ebay created “managed payments” and
removed that huge revenue stream they generated at about 3%. Certainly
the loss of that income has made their costs increase; that’s what
happens. Of course I was being generous when n...
