Ebay and Tax Collection 0

[Simple Collector]

I have been going round and round with EBay and their collection of state taxes on coin purchases and sales. I reside in Ohio. 
 

Today I received two refunds on taxes paid and expect several more which is the the first time I have been successful!

[Alex in PA.]

On 12/23/2021 at 2:31 PM, Simple Collector said:

I have been going round and round with EBay and their collection of state taxes on coin purchases and sales. I reside in Ohio. 
 

Today I received two refunds on taxes paid and expect several more which is the the first time I have been successful!

Cause for celebration; you don't see that everyday.  

[Judy Stockton]

I've been selling on eBay for 23 years...I still can't figure out how they are dealing with these taxes. I have so many customers complaining about the taxes. I'm glad you had success!

 

[Simple Collector]

It has been tedious and frustrating to say the least. Hopefully EBay will get this figured out. I flat out asked them what they were doing with taxes collected where there is no tax in place. Their response was that it goes to the appropriate place.

[JKK]

That's weird. I live in Oregon (high income tax, no sales tax), and I never get taxed buying on Ebenezer (yet). However, people in other states get taxed buying my stuff off the site.

The distilled essence of my experience with Ebay is that you should never ascribe to malice what can credibly be ascribed to pointy-haired-boss idiocy. When one first sells there, things happen that make one think there must be some deeply nefarious purpose, because surely no intelligent human being would just DO something so stupid, pointless, inconvenient, transparent, etc. If one sticks around, one comes to realize there's no nefarious purpose. There's a PHB slinging random orders from some recess of his microcephalic brain, code monkeys who long ago realized that protest or input were futile and who just try to get it done, and absolutely zero considered input from anyone who actually uses the site. Or if I'm wrong, they are doing a great imitation of that situation.

[Mohawk]

On 12/24/2021 at 1:23 PM, JKK said:

That's weird. I live in Oregon (high income tax, no sales tax), and I never get taxed buying on Ebenezer (yet). However, people in other states get taxed buying my stuff off the site.

The distilled essence of my experience with Ebay is that you should never ascribe to malice what can credibly be ascribed to pointy-haired-boss idiocy. When one first sells there, things happen that make one think there must be some deeply nefarious purpose, because surely no intelligent human being would just DO something so stupid, pointless, inconvenient, transparent, etc. If one sticks around, one comes to realize there's no nefarious purpose. There's a PHB slinging random orders from some recess of his microcephalic brain, code monkeys who long ago realized that protest or input were futile and who just try to get it done, and absolutely zero considered input from anyone who actually uses the site. Or if I'm wrong, they are doing a great imitation of that situation.

Jonathan, as someone who has sold on eBay since 2008, you summed it right up, I think.  There's a PHB somewhere causing problems......which is a problem encountered in many places the world over, not just eBay.  I've definitely worked for organizations that had PHB problems, that's for sure.

Edited December 25, 2021 by Mohawk