New quarter, ebay stores eligible for another $25 in free shipping supplies.
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While in your store homepage, click on Manage store then click on subscriber discounts. Coupon good only with seller ebayshipping supplies.
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Last quarter they wanted to charge sales tax which was ok but i needed to set up a new Ebay payment account.
I got a 50 percent off final value fees if I promote the auctions. good for the whole month of April
Isn't the promote fee about 10% of the sales price if it moves?
the promotion fee is anywhere from one to 100 percent of the purchase price. I chose the 1 percent
Spent my $50 shipping supply voucher already. It's a nice bonus. I mean, I have the store for the free listings and discounted fees. But $50 per quarter is like getting 3 free months. And I definitely use bubble envelopes!
For what it's worth, they did charge me NY State sales tax. I suppose I could be mad about it or spend some time trying to use my resale certificate, but that seems more trouble than it's worth for $3.80.
Thanks for the heads up! I got 100 padded envelopes for 81 cents.
Click on this link to see my ebay listings.
Me too and I earned ebay bucks on the entire $25.81 purchase.
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these promotion listings really work, I sold something today.
I wait for an eBay Bucks promo to use the coupon. Since you earn on the full sale price, if you buy at 8 or 10%, you get a nice kickback for free supplies.
Your reseller certificate would only allow you to avoid paying sales tax if you were reselling the padded mailers. If you use the mailers for your shipping, you're the end user and owe sales tax.
I would wait for a 10% promo, but I'm always worried about forgetting to use it.
That should not be true. I am required to collect sales tax on shipping charges, so the shipping materials should be exempt, no? Otherwise they are double-taxed.
https://tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/cartons_containers.htm
Here ya go. Straight from NY State's mouth.
I'm not reading it the same way you are. That rule appears to say that if you use the packaging in which something you bought was sent, you don't have to pay sales tax on that packaging item. Let's suppose the padded mailer you buy from eBay has a value of $1 (for simplicity--I know it's not that high). If your end buyer, who receives his order in the padded mailer, makes use of the padded mailer, he doesn't have to pay sales tax on it. To the end buyer, the padded mailer is incidental to the purchase. To you, it IS the purchase.
Look at the cited example: "A manufacturer sells goods in bulk and ships them in corrugated cardboard cartons to a retailer. The retailer uses the cartons as temporary storage containers then removes the goods and discards the cartons. The cartons are not subject to tax."
Specifically, the site notes, "The term actually transferred means that the packaging material is physically transferred to the purchaser along with the item, and can be disposed of as the purchaser wishes."
In your case, the packaging material is the item you are buying, not something transferred along with what you are buying.
What this law is saying is that you don't have to pay sales tax on the box the shipping supplies come in, regardless of what you do with the box.
t you don't have to pay sales tax on the box the shipping supplies come in, regardless of what you do with the box.
That is incorrect. Try this one:
Example: A watch repair person purchases boxes and cushioning material to use when returning repaired watches to customers. The box and packing material are not taxable because they are purchased for resale.
Or this:
Containers and other materials that hold food or drinks transferred to a purchaser of the food or drink may be purchased for resale without payment of sales or use taxes.
You "sell" the packaging with the item so it is taxed at the sale of the item not when I purchase it.
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This example itself refers to physically transferring the carton to the purchase who then disposes of it. You've totally skipped the opening sentence:
Cartons, containers, wrapping and packaging materials and supplies that a vendor uses in packaging tangible personal property for sale are exempt from sales tax when these materials are actually transferred by the vendor to the purchaser.
When a vendor buys packaging that is actually tranfered to the purchaser - as opposed to, say, bins in a store - the vendor does not pay sales tax on those materials.
I never use it because I get all the free box from USPS but I think I am going to try it this quarter to order the tape.