OT eBay tax scam?

[ctownboy]

Hello,

I don't know if this has been talked about or not and sorry if it has but I have a question.

I sell some things on eBay, nothing major and usually for not big dollars. Most of the time I weigh things properly and the buyers pay actual shipping price (as I state in my listings). A couple of weeks ago, however, a person bought soemthing from me and we discovered they lived about five minutes from my home and they didn't want to pay for shipping if they didn't have to. So, we decided to have the buyer pay for the purchase with Paypal and then when it was over, I would refund the postage if we met in person for the delivery.

The delivery happened with no problems and when I went to refund the postage, I saw that eBay had charged sales tax on the postage. My questions are these; should eBay ACTUALLY be doing this? If so, do the states get that sales tax charged on the postage or does eBay siphon it off and add that to their profits?

David