Any fears in selling large $ items on ebay?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by glchen

Peter, my point is for the sales tax issue, it is simply too easy to get caught. The figures and paper trail are right there. If you are audited once, you are dead meat. You'd have to be an idiot to try to avoid giving the state their taxes due. For monitoring shilling, you can probably try to claim benign neglect or something similar, but sales taxes are an open and shut case.

So offenses that are easily caught don't get committed? I don't follow you. To the contrary, many people who commit such offenses (talking now in the abstract) delude themselves into thinking they are above the law, will get away with it, etc. I see it time and again -- just as one example, smoking gun memos instructing employees to obtain phony sales in order to create the appearance of higher revenues.