Miscellaneous

Licensing eBay resellers, cont'd

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

Mary Jo Pletz, who lives north of Allentown, Pa., made a very successful time of it accepting people's consigned items and selling them on eBay. Now the state of Pennsylvania is proceeding against her for not taking out an auctioneer's license, though it denies that it is seeking the $10 million in fines that her lawyer alleges. (Bob Fernandez, "Pennsylvania takes on online auctions", Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 30). Earlier similarly: Feb. 26, 2006 (California); Oct. 13, 2005 (North Dakota); Mar. 21, 2005 (Ohio).

Full post as published by Overlawyered on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).