Archive for the 'Craigslist' Category

Tax Prof Blog notes today that… the IRS ruled that third-party payment processors such as EBay’s PayPal service do not need to collect taxpayer identification numbers or withhold taxes from sellers who have 200 or fewer transactions in a year. Here’s the IRS notification… A large number Ebay sales folks were about to have to [...]

Check this out at The Washington Post: The IRS Wants A Cut Of Your Online Sales The IRS has plans to tax all that money you’re making online! Of course. This was prompted by an IRS agent who got caught selling designer accessories on ebay and failing to report tens of thousands of dollars in [...]

Google Documents has a great new feature – free web forms. They are pretty cool. In fact, they allow you to create – do it yourself, no fee auctions! Here’s an example of how that was done for a local seller on a popular classified ad website. Because it’s local, people can actually see the [...]

Frustrated Craigslist Users Start Own Sites Depending on the geographical location of the site where you put the ad, there are either a host of self appointed whiners – or competitors – standing ready to eliminate any ad they find that is not to their liking. On the other hand there are some sites where [...]

Craigslist is a great tool for marketing small business products and services. Some businesses do ALL their advertising on Craigslist… it just depends what they offer and how well received Craigslist is in their community. I was recently checking out the service again as part of a periodic review and found that they are now [...]

Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail [...]

I posted about the Craigslist hoax that cost a man most of his possessions. Police have now busted the perpetrators. Amber Herbert, 28, of Medford, and her husband, Brandon Herbert, 29, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit a computer crime. Police searched a computer that they owned and [...]

The kind, loving people who make Craigslist such a friendly place to visit online (NOT!) have now ransacked a man’s house in Oregon. Oregon man’s property ransacked after Craigslist hoax The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a [...]

This is a victory for all websites with user generated content! From Online Media Daily  In a ruling that has implications for all companies that publish consumer-generated content, a federal appeals court found Craigslist not responsible for discriminatory ads that were placed by users of the online classifieds site, and stated that the federal Communications [...]

It is easy to get overwhelmed with all of the rapidly changing marketing strategies and online advertising schemes that seem to bounce around the Internet news sites these days and are also found in every $40 Internet business book at Borders. The typical online entrepreneur, such as an e-book author, small business owner, independent artist, [...]