stirator , i think it is pretty obvious that eBay IS earning alot of money, from the fact that eBay is in the list of Fortune 500 companies. Ranking 383 with an annual revenue of US$5,969.7million and profit of US$1,125.6million.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...t/301_400.html
i think it is pretty obvious to most people that ebay deals with online auctions.
And i also think that is is pretty obvious that MOST of eBay's annual profits come from auction sales insertion fees, final value fees, whatever auction fees there is.
If the government wanted to impose any taxes, i don't think they would wait until this petition is done up with a million signatures before they decide to start charging sale taxes. Come on, the governement could even see what you doing in your backyard with just a satellite from the comfort of their desk. For a minute you think that they don't know how much eBay is earning?
They would probably, in fact would have known that eBay is making tonnes of money just from hosting auctions. Do you think that any government, would be oblivious to this?
On another note, perhaps you are well-off and could afford 5 players in a go, and purchasing an apple ipod would be a piece of cake to you. But there are many others who could not easily afford an apple ipod, and these "cheapies" as i quote from you, are the best that they could afford. i am one of them in fact, i'm just a student and do not have any positive income. So saving up for just 1 player is not easy.
In case you don't know yet, those who signed the petition were "conned", "swindled", "cheated", into purchasing something that had been misrepresented. As far as i could see, and as far as those concerned, they did not make a "mistake" but rather was deceived by the seller themselves.