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Legislation Combats Stolen Products on Ebay?

by eBayAdrenaline.net ~ February 27th, 2009. Filed under: Amazon, Education, Government, eBay.

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

 
 

 


From The Desk Of B. Robert

"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;
 

01

These bills separate out e-commerce and online marketplaces for discriminatory treatment.
02

Selling stolen products in retail stores on the street, or online is already illegal.
03
Cumbersome and complex online program implementation within marketplaces could hinder economic sales growth on the Internet.
04
Small businesses and small sellers on the Internet would be presented as illegal sellers and assumed their products were stolen.
05
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 filed.

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

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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.
 

To Be Continued…



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