@jmlanzaf said:
I had an international customer buy a $700 stamp and then requesting that I label it a "gift" fur customs. I'm still expecting him to refuse delivery.
When I used to do international sales, I got the request regularly. Almost always from someone in Canada or Great Britain.
They usually just request that I put the value at under $X and include no paperwork inside the package. The gift request is an easily traceable crime, especially with the ebay shipping label. Lol
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@jmlanzaf said:
The gift request is an easily traceable crime, especially with the ebay shipping label. Lol
When I was doing international sales, there were no eBay shipping labels to be had and packages with customs forms had to go the the counter at the PO. I doubt anybody there would believe I was honestly mailing 6 or 8 gifts a week.
I got a message from ebay on 12-13-21 saying "On October 13, 2021, we launched a new sales tax enhancement intended to improve the taxability of items related to legal tender."
It's kind of funny they wait 2 months to say anything and their "new sales tax enhancement" hasn't fixed a thing.
I purchased a coin on 12-14-21 for $150 and was charged $11.63 in sales tax.
This is over a year ebay has been illegally collecting sales tax in states that don't tax coin & paper money.
About half of the states don't charge sale tax on coins & paper money, after a year of sales nationwide on ebay the amount illegally collected has to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Not to minimize the trouble it's causing for others but I haven't been charged sales tax on my purchases, so it's got to be something more complicated than eBay just collecting tax that's not required.
I foresee the next class action suit on the horizon.
Charging sellers fees on Improperly applied sales taxes.
I’ve never heard a word out of eBay to reimburse a seller that paid fv fees on total price of auction sold (including sales tax) when it was found that sales tax was Improperly collected and refunded to buyer.
Hmmmm.
I was never a fan of eBay collecting a fee on a state mandated tax that was only a pass thru to the state.
@rooksmith said:
Sales tax Stink. Buy from Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon coin dealers ??
Uggh - it gets more complicated than that:
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They usually just request that I put the value at under $X and include no paperwork inside the package. The gift request is an easily traceable crime, especially with the ebay shipping label. Lol
All comments reflect the opinion of the author, even when irrefutably accurate.
When I was doing international sales, there were no eBay shipping labels to be had and packages with customs forms had to go the the counter at the PO. I doubt anybody there would believe I was honestly mailing 6 or 8 gifts a week.
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Well, if your name is Santa ..........
Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Santa does NOT give gifts in April. Santa also handles his own shipping.
smh...
All comments reflect the opinion of the author, even when irrefutably accurate.
I got a message from ebay on 12-13-21 saying
"On October 13, 2021, we launched a new sales tax enhancement intended to improve the taxability of items related to legal tender."
It's kind of funny they wait 2 months to say anything and their "new sales tax enhancement" hasn't fixed a thing.
I purchased a coin on 12-14-21 for $150 and was charged $11.63 in sales tax.
This is over a year ebay has been illegally collecting sales tax in states that don't tax coin & paper money.
About half of the states don't charge sale tax on coins & paper money, after a year of sales nationwide on ebay the amount illegally collected has to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Not to minimize the trouble it's causing for others but I haven't been charged sales tax on my purchases, so it's got to be something more complicated than eBay just collecting tax that's not required.
I foresee the next class action suit on the horizon.
Charging sellers fees on Improperly applied sales taxes.
I’ve never heard a word out of eBay to reimburse a seller that paid fv fees on total price of auction sold (including sales tax) when it was found that sales tax was Improperly collected and refunded to buyer.
Hmmmm.
I was never a fan of eBay collecting a fee on a state mandated tax that was only a pass thru to the state.
Yes, but you need to buy from them in person. Alternatively you can move to Delaware and do your mail order from whoever you want.