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Posted By: boxingcardman

At least Amazon collects the sales tax automatically and (presumably; I don't use it) handles that remittance for you. Plus, I don't get the impression that Amazon arbitrarily freezes sellers' accounts if some loon complains. If Ebay was to go to a 15% or so cost of sales with a mandate to use Paypal, it would present the worst of both worlds for most casual sellers: high cost of doing business combined with an unfair, poorly-run payment processor AND the pleasure of dealing with all sales tax issues yourself. At that point I'd rather pay an auctioneer to handle things for me.

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