well, that being the case, you should like state taxes but dislike federal taxes (IRS).
state and local taxes provided for useful things like firemen, libraries, policemen (sometimes useful), etc.
federal taxes pay for things like blowing stuff up overseas due to faulty intelligence about WMDs, corporate handouts, propping up of despotic pro-US regimes like pinochet, etc.
a few years back i lost my sysadmin job and started building and selling computers to pay the rent.
before i knew it, i had a full-fledge electronics reselling business, and between craigslist and ebay i probably did over half a million in sales last year.
problem is, i never really had a background in business, and was never financially organized, i only just recently got quickbooks and decided to try to learn to use it.
at this point my business is still pretty much all in my head, i don't have records or many receipts, i'm a bit worried the irs is going to come a knockin', thinking that all my ebay sales are pure profit, and i won't really have the records to say otherwise.
i have an appointment with an accountant this week, basically to see if there's any hope for me, or if i should just flee the country while i can.
as someone who uses both craigslist and ebay extensively, i have to say craigslist has its own tax, it's not one of money, but of time.
it's taxing to deal with craigslisters who want to ask lots of dumb questions (i.e., can this laptop get on the internet?), to meet them in person, to let them look over the system they're buying for half an hour, and sometimes even to have them call you after the sale expecting to give them free tech support.
ebay on the other hand, while high in fees, is very nice in the fact that buyers send you the money, you send them the goods, and, viola! done!
Is it just I can't think of them/haven't heard of it? Are there prominent conservatives who declared they'll leave the country if ______ happens?
i can imagine maybe a few ultra-right wingers have that attitude, but for the most part they are the america - love it or leave it! crowd.
they are flag-waving buffoons that sit on the couch, guzzle their beer and wave their flags while chanting rah! rah! go america, we're #1, while watching american tanks rolling into iraq and other oil-rich countr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H totalitarian dictatorships that threaten america with weapons of mass desctuction.
yes, this show you watched back in the late 90's, back then it was probably much easier to make a profit in electronics recycling.
back then pentium 1 and pre-pentium 1 boards and cpus had a much higher gold content, but afterwards manufacturers cut back drastically on their use of valuable metals to cut costs.
these days, when most of what a recycler gets is p2 and p3-era machines, and busted monitors (not worth much of anything), they are not as valuable component-wise.
so no, most recyclers do not "churn a high profit" unless they are operating on a HUGE scale, most just get by ok, and do a LOT of work to just get by.
if you are in the silicon valley area, please consider ELMARS.ORG, we offer free electronics recycling (drop off at our Fremont warehouse just off I-880), and also offer free pick-up at your location for medium to large quantities.
we are a non-profit california state-certified e-waste collector (one of the few that are state certified), and will give you a 501 c(3) tax-deductible receipt for all electronics that you give us, as well. help the environment and help your pocketbook, too:)
good thing you're not a judge - sounds like you have a grudge and you'd try to stretch the laws to find some way to punish someone whose actions you don't agree with.
sex offender registries should be for rapists and child molesters, not for someone pissing people off on the internet.
indecent exposure? hardly, the guy never exposed himself.
soliciting? soliciting a hooker is a crime in most places, soliciting sex is not.
I see a lot of comments lambasting the lawsuit, but I have to say I don't see the problem.
Making a site 508 compliant is not really all that hard and...
the problem is not that it is necessarily hard to do.
the problem is that the government thinks it's ok to tell a privately owned website that it MUST comply with these 508 requirements, which were initially designed for federal agencies.
for the government to require its own agencies, which are of, by, and for the people (at least in theory) to be accessible to all people is GOOD.
for the government to enforce the same requirement on a privately owned company is BAD.
if a seller is up-front about what he is going to charge for an item, there is nothing shady about it, not in the slightest.
the only time that it's shady is when a seller tries to hide the shipping & handling charges in fine print, or doesn't disclose it until after the auction - THAT's shady.
as far as "warning signs of higher risk" that you mention, yes, i would watch out for such signs too. this is not one of them.
It's ebay's site. The sellers are trying to get around thier responsibility to pay ebay thier fair share. If they don't like the fees, they can go elsewhere. Instead, they choose to rip off both buyers and the host. Your apologetics don't change the fact that this is dishonest.
stfu if you don't know what you're talking about.
sellers are trying to lessen the extreme ebay fees, not "get around their responsibility".
i paid over $1200 last month to ebay just for the privelige of using their website to sell stuff - does that sound like not paying a fair share?
by shifting SOME of the cost from price to shipping cost it helps to lower the overall fees a bit, ebay still gets a huge chunk.
and ebay's policies and fees are practically forcing sellers to do this to stay competitive.
ebay could fix this situation if they wanted, but they choose not to.
And this somehow exonerates the sellers?
exoneration is irrelevant.
you're avoiding the point i made - that retalliatory feedback is not a seller-specific problem, it's a problem with the way ebay's feedback system is set up.
Yeah, ebay lets it happen. And the sellers cash in on it.
there you go again saying "the sellers", as though all sellers do that.
those who are dishonest and rip people off should be banned from the site and legal action taken against them.
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yes i would agree with all of those except disaster relief - the govt shouldn't be in the insurance business.
that aside, compare how much of the federal budget is spent on useful things vs how much is spent on harmful or useless things.
well, that being the case, you should like state taxes but dislike federal taxes (IRS).
state and local taxes provided for useful things like firemen, libraries, policemen (sometimes useful), etc.
federal taxes pay for things like blowing stuff up overseas due to faulty intelligence about WMDs, corporate handouts, propping up of despotic pro-US regimes like pinochet, etc.
yup, i thought about posting anonymously, but i haven't really done anything wrong, besides have poor recordkeeping.
i have a date with a good accountant thursday, we'll see how it goes.
nice story about the irs cashing the state check, wouldn't surprise me.
no, actually i was thinking about a particular item i sold on ebay last week, which happened to be a viola.
a few years back i lost my sysadmin job and started building and selling computers to pay the rent.
before i knew it, i had a full-fledge electronics reselling business, and between craigslist and ebay i probably did over half a million in sales last year.
problem is, i never really had a background in business, and was never financially organized, i only just recently got quickbooks and decided to try to learn to use it.
at this point my business is still pretty much all in my head, i don't have records or many receipts, i'm a bit worried the irs is going to come a knockin', thinking that all my ebay sales are pure profit, and i won't really have the records to say otherwise.
i have an appointment with an accountant this week, basically to see if there's any hope for me, or if i should just flee the country while i can.
as someone who uses both craigslist and ebay extensively, i have to say craigslist has its own tax, it's not one of money, but of time.
it's taxing to deal with craigslisters who want to ask lots of dumb questions (i.e., can this laptop get on the internet?), to meet them in person, to let them look over the system they're buying for half an hour, and sometimes even to have them call you after the sale expecting to give them free tech support.
ebay on the other hand, while high in fees, is very nice in the fact that buyers send you the money, you send them the goods, and, viola! done!
good gameplay is what counts in a game, for me at least.
something like civilization with GOOD AI opponents and simple 2D graphics would be much better than flashy graphics and weak gameplay.
even something like nethack with ASCII graphics is still very playable.
There's black comedy and there's black comedy, and the latter kind implies that your sympathies lie with the perpetrators.
which perpetrators are you referring to, the bomber, or paypal?
Is it just I can't think of them/haven't heard of it? Are there prominent conservatives who declared they'll leave the country if ______ happens?
i can imagine maybe a few ultra-right wingers have that attitude, but for the most part they are the america - love it or leave it! crowd.
they are flag-waving buffoons that sit on the couch, guzzle their beer and wave their flags while chanting rah! rah! go america, we're #1, while watching american tanks rolling into iraq and other oil-rich countr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H totalitarian dictatorships that threaten america with weapons of mass desctuction.
One case was a woman also with Parkinsons. She suffered a period of amnesia and her voice came back for no apparent reason.
maybe the amnesia made her forget that she wasn't able to speak.
...that's a lot of orkut users!
hi, thanks for the interest.
working hardware or hardware that we can fix up easily (put a new hard drive in, etc) gets either donated or sold to fund our existing operations.
non-working and obsolete stuff gets seperated into components (plastics, steel (cases), circuit boards, wires, etc).
we work with local refineries that will melt down boards and metals, everything is done locally, not overseas.
yes, this show you watched back in the late 90's, back then it was probably much easier to make a profit in electronics recycling.
back then pentium 1 and pre-pentium 1 boards and cpus had a much higher gold content, but afterwards manufacturers cut back drastically on their use of valuable metals to cut costs.
these days, when most of what a recycler gets is p2 and p3-era machines, and busted monitors (not worth much of anything), they are not as valuable component-wise.
so no, most recyclers do not "churn a high profit" unless they are operating on a HUGE scale, most just get by ok, and do a LOT of work to just get by.
if you are in the silicon valley area, please consider ELMARS.ORG, we offer free electronics recycling (drop off at our Fremont warehouse just off I-880), and also offer free pick-up at your location for medium to large quantities.
:)
we are a non-profit california state-certified e-waste collector (one of the few that are state certified), and will give you a 501 c(3) tax-deductible receipt for all electronics that you give us, as well.
help the environment and help your pocketbook, too
see us at www.elmars.org for more info.
thanks!
many or most schools and nonproftis these days have minimum requirements of what they will take as a donation.
I'm a tenured professor at a large, accreditted university
you'd think he'd at least spell check his writing before submitting it.
i give this prof a c-
the obvious solution to this is, stop being old!
good thing you're not a judge - sounds like you have a grudge and you'd try to stretch the laws to find some way to punish someone whose actions you don't agree with.
sex offender registries should be for rapists and child molesters, not for someone pissing people off on the internet.
indecent exposure? hardly, the guy never exposed himself.
soliciting? soliciting a hooker is a crime in most places, soliciting sex is not.
nothing you said makes any sense, really.
I see a lot of comments lambasting the lawsuit, but I have to say I don't see the problem.
Making a site 508 compliant is not really all that hard and...
the problem is not that it is necessarily hard to do.
the problem is that the government thinks it's ok to tell a privately owned website that it MUST comply with these 508 requirements, which were initially designed for federal agencies.
for the government to require its own agencies, which are of, by, and for the people (at least in theory) to be accessible to all people is GOOD.
for the government to enforce the same requirement on a privately owned company is BAD.
to confound and irritate my opponent.
i think you are missing the point, there is no 'opponent', you are not opposed to anyone in this game.
there is a partner, who you team with, to come up with an accurate desciption.
you're making an assumption here, that the seller does not refund s&h charges.
many sellers, including myself, do refund s&h charges, when giving a refund.
regardless, most sellers will replace a defective item rather than refunding.
So they're willing to be dishonest to ebay.
dishonest?
how?
please explain.
What makes you think they won't be dishonest to you?
i would check the seller's priory selling history, i've found it is a good indicator of their trustworthiness.
it's worked quite well for me.
i can't agree with you there.
if a seller is up-front about what he is going to charge for an item, there is nothing shady about it, not in the slightest.
the only time that it's shady is when a seller tries to hide the shipping & handling charges in fine print, or doesn't disclose it until after the auction - THAT's shady.
as far as "warning signs of higher risk" that you mention, yes, i would watch out for such signs too.
this is not one of them.
It's ebay's site. The sellers are trying to get around thier responsibility to pay ebay thier fair share. If they don't like the fees, they can go elsewhere. Instead, they choose to rip off both buyers and the host. Your apologetics don't change the fact that this is dishonest.
stfu if you don't know what you're talking about.
sellers are trying to lessen the extreme ebay fees, not "get around their responsibility".
i paid over $1200 last month to ebay just for the privelige of using their website to sell stuff - does that sound like not paying a fair share?
by shifting SOME of the cost from price to shipping cost it helps to lower the overall fees a bit, ebay still gets a huge chunk.
and ebay's policies and fees are practically forcing sellers to do this to stay competitive.
ebay could fix this situation if they wanted, but they choose not to.
And this somehow exonerates the sellers?
exoneration is irrelevant.
you're avoiding the point i made - that retalliatory feedback is not a seller-specific problem, it's a problem with the way ebay's feedback system is set up.
Yeah, ebay lets it happen. And the sellers cash in on it.
there you go again saying "the sellers", as though all sellers do that.
those who are dishonest and rip people off should be banned from the site and legal action taken against them.
yes there is:
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)