@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
@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
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...
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.