Comments on: The Consumers are Saved! http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html Dispatches from a Small Business Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: HTRN http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html/comment-page-1#comment-9429 HTRN Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:31:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html #comment-9429 <p>This sounds like a gross misapplication of the Auctioneer requirements - she's not the one doing the Auction - EBay is, although if the State law requires consignment houses(if this was what she was doing) to have one, then she's on the hook for it.</p> <p>This type of missapplication of existing laws seems to happen alot in that area - not too long ago, A guy named Brian Kelly was arrested for "Wiretapping" when videotaping the police. The case was later dropped when it became apparent that it would go badly for them - the wiretapping law specified an "expectation of privacy".</p> <p>My Suspicion? They're actually trying to get a cut of the action from Ebay, and they're doing it by offering to "compromise" by making a special "E auctioneers" license.</p> <p>I disagree about licenses to protect existing businesses, for the most part(although it is used often enough to bludgeon the competition of the well connected), it strkes me more as an extortion scheme - Government sees others making money, figures out a way of stealing a piece of the pie.</p> This sounds like a gross misapplication of the Auctioneer requirements – she’s not the one doing the Auction – EBay is, although if the State law requires consignment houses(if this was what she was doing) to have one, then she’s on the hook for it.

This type of missapplication of existing laws seems to happen alot in that area – not too long ago, A guy named Brian Kelly was arrested for “Wiretapping” when videotaping the police. The case was later dropped when it became apparent that it would go badly for them – the wiretapping law specified an “expectation of privacy”.

My Suspicion? They’re actually trying to get a cut of the action from Ebay, and they’re doing it by offering to “compromise” by making a special “E auctioneers” license.

I disagree about licenses to protect existing businesses, for the most part(although it is used often enough to bludgeon the competition of the well connected), it strkes me more as an extortion scheme – Government sees others making money, figures out a way of stealing a piece of the pie.

]]> By: TC http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html/comment-page-1#comment-9428 TC Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:04:45 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html #comment-9428 <p>Horrible story, but is sounds as if she was in fact a consignment house, taking goods from other people and selling them for profit. </p> <p>Nothing wrong with that at all, but she probably should have had a business license for such. Of course one could argue the finer points of why should one need any license for any unregulated business, or why some businesses are slipped into any regs at all. </p> <p>Type of Enterprise: Helping others clear out their attics. </p> Horrible story, but is sounds as if she was in fact a consignment house, taking goods from other people and selling them for profit.

Nothing wrong with that at all, but she probably should have had a business license for such. Of course one could argue the finer points of why should one need any license for any unregulated business, or why some businesses are slipped into any regs at all.

Type of Enterprise: Helping others clear out their attics.

]]> By: Kyle Bennett http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html/comment-page-1#comment-9427 Kyle Bennett Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:22:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/the-consumers-a.html #comment-9427 <p>I'll note that Pletz's 99.9% satisfaction rating is probably just a bit higher than that of the Pennsylvania state legislature.</p> I’ll note that Pletz’s 99.9% satisfaction rating is probably just a bit higher than that of the Pennsylvania state legislature.

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