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'Mystery Shopper?'
An excellent way to earn extra income is by
becoming a mystery shopper.
An important fact
is that mystery shopping has become one of the home based
business that scammers abuse by taking advantage of those who
are interested in learning more about the industry.
Three major bills introduced on 02/25 to Combat Organized Retail Crime,<br />
sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Organized Retail Crime Act of<br />
2009, sponsored by Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana, and the E-fencing Enforcement<br />
Act of
"The
Fight Over Stolen Goods Being Sold Online Heats Up"
Discriminatory against online businesses?
Lawmakers Introduce legislation to Combat Stolen Products on eBay, Amazon, and other online market places.
The vast amount of online sales of Stolen goods is causing lawmakers to launch new legislation to try and prevent the illegal selling of these products.
Somehow, I wonder why new legislation is necessary, when there are already laws on record making it illegal to steal products from on-site retail locations and for retail stores to sell stolen goods!
Wait–don't those laws apply to online stolen goods also?
I would think so; yet, to listen to your lawmakers, they seem to feel there are new laws to be written and placed into legislative law!
Sounds like discrimination to me; however, I am always open to discussion to make me see other aspects in any issue or subject matter.
I simply–hope lawmakers and legislators would pay more attention to our economy being in such dire needs for resolution to the current downturn of regular sales; and, ways and means to rejuvenate legal sales of products.
Our lawmakers seem to busy themselves with requirements that are not a priority.
The facts are:
There are three major bills that were introduced on February. 25, 2009 sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Organized Retail Crime Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana, and the E-fencing Enforcement Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Robert Scott of Virginia.
Remarks to our lawmakers-
My question to our Representatives is, "Why can't you add a simple addendum to the already existing laws referencing and regarding the issues, policies and laws for combating the sales of stolen goods in retail locations?"
You certainly could get back to work on resolving the issues for of our slowing economy; and save the tax payer dollars in time not spent on duplicate legislation!
Let me help guide you on factual observation;
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These bills separate out e-commerce and online marketplaces for discriminatory treatment.
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Selling stolen products in retail stores on the street, or online is already illegal.
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Cumbersome and complex online program implementation within marketplaces could hinder economic sales growth on the Internet.
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Small businesses and small sellers on the Internet would be presented as illegal sellers and assumed their products were stolen.
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Blatantly stifles competition on the Internet!
Legislation was introduced prior-
The E-Fencing Enforcement Act of 2008 was introduced into the House of Representatives in the summer of 2008.
This legislation effects auction sites like eBay and others to retain information on high-volume sellers including offering this information to retailers and law enforcement officials in cases where police reports have been file
d.
Additionally, there was the Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008 introduced, (H. R. 6491), which would require auction sites to pool resources with retailers and police; and, allow retailers to sue those involved with stolen products.
How many times can the same legislation be introduced and duplicated? Can't the lawmakers talk to one another and stop wasting all the time and efforts that spend tax payer dollars on duplicate legislation.
Alternatives To eBay
I have provided links to eBay alternatives below.
I am directing you to my alternative site links so you may see what can be done.
You can access the main sites as well.
I will discuss the alternative sites in future posts; however, for today you can check the other sites out.
Grace Period Ends Jan 15 for Removing Paper Payment Methods
Grace Period Ended January 15, 2009 for Removing Paper Payment Methods from Item Listings
On Thursday, Jan.29.2009, Laurel Kline Posted in eBay's Product News a reminder to correct all of your listings that have other methods of payments. See Notice
eBay's 'Accepted Payments Policy' was updated to remove checks and money order paper payment methods.
eBay did enforce their paperless payment policy, however a grace period was granted in removing references to those payment methods from the Item Description. The grace period ended January 15, 2009.
eBay announced after 01-15-2009, when sellers list their items all descriptions will be automatically reviewed at listing time to make sure no paper payment methods are included. Your listing will fail with an error, if paper payment methods are included.
Also noted in eBay's notice comments were that sellers may want to make additional updates to their Item Descriptions at the same time. They were as follows:
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Remove any shipping values that are above the maximum for their category (enforced now)
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Make template updates to ensure they won't get unexpected results
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correct all templates to prevent error results with the new View Item page
If you have been considering selling on eBay or you are an existing seller on this auction site, you should be aware of some important statistics in comparison to Amazon.com sales.
Amazon actually startled the industry by providing less expensive products for the season’s most popular consumer items in December 2008.
Why are these numbers important for you to realize? If you want to sell on eBay, there are other avenues as well, and you should be aware of them and become familiar as well.
If you are a buyer on eBay, you certainly should care about the discount prices on Amazon and their discounted savings versus the higher price on eBay.
Amazon undercut eBay sellers for the most popular items (Jiffyprice.com)
You can view research for these statistics at the above URL address.
Jiffyprice.com’s concluding research notes that the buy-it-now averages for consumer electronics varied from 22% through 60%.
Most people shopping either online or at the retail location cannot find the time to compare shop.
For this reason, Jiffyprice.com is a great site for you to compare pricing of eBay versus Amazon.
Jiffysite.com saves you time and efforts by their simplified price comparison searches on the above sites noted.
Unfortunately,
like other online auctions shopping markets, it is vulnerable to scams and
attempts to take advantage of buyers.
eBay implements many polices and procedures to
prevent such occurrences; however, with so many millions of members transacting
sales on a daily basis, this can be a challenging and ongoing security
involvement to prevent scams from occurring.
If you have or
think you have been scammed, there are steps you can follow to
report the incident in attempts to resolve your instance and
specific circumstance.
If you paid for the item using PayPal, you should immediately
open a dispute for the refund of your payment.
If you did not use PayPal, you can contact your credit card
company.
In
many such instances, using either PayPal or your Credit Card,
you can recover your money.
Paying by other means could take
longer and be a bit more difficult to obtain a refund.
You should also use
eBay’s dispute process to report the seller.
If you purchased your
items and you did not receive them, or your item was notably
different than the auction item description; eBay has a dispute
protection .
Once you open a
dispute, if a settlement cannot be agreed upon, an eBay buyer
purchase protection claim can be completed.
You should always make
sure to ask the seller questions prior to any purchase or bidding
you may partake when on eBay.
It is important to remember that eBay
does not verify the products on their listings site.
Therefore, you should always consider
first the intent to protect yourself from 'scammers'.
Beware of “phishing:” emails sent to you! The email looks exactly
like they’ve been sent by an auction website or payment service and
banking company. These emails are fishing for your password and
personal information.
These emails are actually being sent by fraudulent hackers who are
seeking entry into your account.
If you get an email or pop-up message that asks for personal or
financial information, do not reply. NEVER click on the link in the
message.
Legitimate companies don’t ask for this information via email. If
you are concerned about your account, contact the organization
mentioned in the email using a telephone number you know to be
genuine.
To access the site make sure you open a new Internet browser session
(window) and type in the company’s correct Web address yourself.
NEVER, cut and paste the link from the message into your Internet
browser. Phishers often make links look like they go to one site,
but actually send you somewhere else.
Paypal phishing emails received forward them to
spoof@paypal.com
eBay phishing emails received forward them to
spoof@eBay.com
