YES! Finally a sane person. I have had a response to my 1st post that told me it was the cost of business and I should suck it up. He also went on to tell me that Ebay and Paypal are separate companies, what a crock. From experience Ebay still controls Paypal totally. Example: Ebay hold funds back from NEW seller for up to a 20 day period until they demonstrate a certain seller history. Ebay instructs Paypal to do that, also anytime there is a buyer dispute on ebay, then Paypal takes action right away at Ebay's direction. They are in cahoots regardless of what the "Official" word is. When Ebay decided to step in and and collect the sales taxes from all states that require internet sales to be taxed, they did this on their own, it was not a requirement in any state except California, since they are headquartered there. Ebay also stated there would be no charges to the sellers for their action to collect sales tax from the buyer and then collect it from the seller's Paypal account. Only trouble being they send paypal the gross amount to collect on a sales which includes the sales tax. Then Paypal take their fee on the gross amount, including sales tax, then deducts the sales tax and ushers that along to Ebay. All my sales which have had the sales taxes collected keep adding to my expenses, which right now are too high as it is. So I filed a number of complaints with different agencies to see if they can get this issue resolved. Besides, I have to report my sales tax to NY State with gross sales from other resources, so not it is very confusing. DO I include the gross sales from Ebay??? and get double taxed of what? I will let the NYS Attorney General, The Better Business Bureau and the Office of Consumer Affairs hash it all out. Maybe it will become another class action suit. Ebay and Paypal have not outgrown their responsibility to the general population, no matter how many millions they make.
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