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Message 1688537 - Posted: 6 Jun 2015, 14:19:58 UTC

Like cpu sales, in some cases foreign, that are at odd hours, odd enough to make an i7 3820 cost about $176 w/free shipping and motherboards that fit said cpu for $200.
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Message 1689054 - Posted: 8 Jun 2015, 2:11:24 UTC

An old neighbour of mine, who was an auditing accountant for a local government tax office, told me that they ranked potential investigations in terms of the ratio of possible government income to possible government expense. They started at the top of the list, and never made it to the bottom. I expect this is why, at least in this locale, most e-Bay sales, garage sales, etc. don't get investigated.

And yes, I was also surprised at a government agency being so logical.

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Message 1689292 - Posted: 8 Jun 2015, 22:24:17 UTC

They have to justify their budgets. When I practiced tax law I made them work so hard that they often gave in. You should see an auditors face when you walk in with 4 boxes of documents. I really loved it one year when asked if I had written records to justify my travel expenses and I pulled out a 4 inch thick folder with receipts and records. He didn't even look at it. He just said, I see you do.
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Message 1689378 - Posted: 9 Jun 2015, 4:04:31 UTC - in response to Message 1689292.  

They have to justify their budgets. When I practiced tax law I made them work so hard that they often gave in. You should see an auditors face when you walk in with 4 boxes of documents. I really loved it one year when asked if I had written records to justify my travel expenses and I pulled out a 4 inch thick folder with receipts and records. He didn't even look at it. He just said, I see you do.

Reminds me a bit of one audit a client had while I was doing some computer consulting. Wasn't 4 boxes of documents, more like 8 file cabinets! They picked the holding company for a compliance audit, owned everything from multiple cattle ranches to dozens of oil wells. Obviously that was done on site. Fun part was in the middle of it, IRS misapplied an employment tax deposit on one of the cattle ranches and seized a bank account all because a number wasn't readable on the back of the check. Their on site auditor could see the screw up, but still couldn't get the funds released for a couple weeks!
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Message 1689460 - Posted: 9 Jun 2015, 12:38:42 UTC - in response to Message 1688235.  
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Yes of course I have bought some bargains on Ebay, I can't deny it, but my original beef was the time that they take up in queues at post offices. Yes you can weigh your own parcels and print out your own postage at home, but a lot of Ebay sales go recorded delivery or signed for, and that has to be an over the counter transaction.

I refer you to my earlier post, what do you do afterward?

I would be in favour, at post offices with multiple windows, of having one 'express' counter; for people who need one thing, know what that one thing is, and have correct change in hand.
That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.
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Message 1689465 - Posted: 9 Jun 2015, 12:53:48 UTC - in response to Message 1689460.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.


...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.
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Message 1689470 - Posted: 9 Jun 2015, 13:35:23 UTC - in response to Message 1689465.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

I you ask me it's more young people, not old pensioners, who HAVE to talk in the phone when served.
Grrr...
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Message 1689473 - Posted: 9 Jun 2015, 13:44:37 UTC - in response to Message 1689470.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

I you ask me it's more young people, not old pensioners, who HAVE to talk in the phone when served.
Grrr...

That's just rude, and i can't remember seeing it.
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Message 1689565 - Posted: 10 Jun 2015, 0:18:00 UTC - in response to Message 1689460.  

Laugh now Sonny boy,
your turn is coming....




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Message 1689566 - Posted: 10 Jun 2015, 0:37:43 UTC - in response to Message 1689473.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

I you ask me it's more young people, not old pensioners, who HAVE to talk in the phone when served.
Grrr...

That's just rude, and i can't remember seeing it.

I see. You was beeing busy looking at your smartphone.
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Message 1689824 - Posted: 10 Jun 2015, 15:47:47 UTC - in response to Message 1689702.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

In my local post office you can see all of that every day!! I need to move somewhere else that is for sure .....


Or read your note before walking in.
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Message 1689902 - Posted: 10 Jun 2015, 20:35:08 UTC - in response to Message 1689824.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

In my local post office you can see all of that every day!! I need to move somewhere else that is for sure .....


Or read your note before walking in.

You have to remember that you wrote a note to read ....
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Message 1689918 - Posted: 10 Jun 2015, 21:03:26 UTC - in response to Message 1689902.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

In my local post office you can see all of that every day!! I need to move somewhere else that is for sure .....


Or read your note before walking in.

You have to remember that you wrote a note to read ....

What note?
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Message 1689924 - Posted: 10 Jun 2015, 21:11:40 UTC - in response to Message 1689918.  

That way i don't get stuck behind a ninety year old pensioner hunting through her hand bag, to find her glasses, to find her purse, to find her other pair of glasses, to find the bit of paper where she's written down what she came in for in the first place.

...and then realizes she's been in the wrong store in the wrong line and meant to go to the hairdresser.

In my local post office you can see all of that every day!! I need to move somewhere else that is for sure .....


Or read your note before walking in.

You have to remember that you wrote a note to read ....

What note?

The first thing to go...
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Message 1690120 - Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 14:16:14 UTC - in response to Message 1690070.  

But as she likely lives on her own, that visit was probably the highlight of her day. It's all swings and roundabouts. But I still say Damn Ebayers! Tax 'em and sod 'em!!

There's tax included in the sales fee as a seller.
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Message 1690235 - Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 19:59:09 UTC - in response to Message 1690120.  

But as she likely lives on her own, that visit was probably the highlight of her day. It's all swings and roundabouts. But I still say Damn Ebayers! Tax 'em and sod 'em!!

There's tax included in the sales fee as a seller.

That is an option here in the States. I don't see small guys doing that, but larger commercial operations often do.
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Message 1690254 - Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 21:07:33 UTC - in response to Message 1690235.  

But as she likely lives on her own, that visit was probably the highlight of her day. It's all swings and roundabouts. But I still say Damn Ebayers! Tax 'em and sod 'em!!

There's tax included in the sales fee as a seller.

That is an option here in the States. I don't see small guys doing that, but larger commercial operations often do.

And then some charge tax on shipping and handling too, aaarrrggghhh!!!
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Message 1690265 - Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 21:40:12 UTC - in response to Message 1690254.  

But as she likely lives on her own, that visit was probably the highlight of her day. It's all swings and roundabouts. But I still say Damn Ebayers! Tax 'em and sod 'em!!

There's tax included in the sales fee as a seller.

That is an option here in the States. I don't see small guys doing that, but larger commercial operations often do.

And then some charge tax on shipping and handling too, aaarrrggghhh!!!

As state law obligates them to do .....
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Message 1690269 - Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 21:44:23 UTC - in response to Message 1690265.  

But as she likely lives on her own, that visit was probably the highlight of her day. It's all swings and roundabouts. But I still say Damn Ebayers! Tax 'em and sod 'em!!

There's tax included in the sales fee as a seller.

That is an option here in the States. I don't see small guys doing that, but larger commercial operations often do.

And then some charge tax on shipping and handling too, aaarrrggghhh!!!

As state law obligates them to do .....

On shipping and handling??

Seriously?
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Message 1690295 - Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 23:08:01 UTC - in response to Message 1690269.  

But as she likely lives on her own, that visit was probably the highlight of her day. It's all swings and roundabouts. But I still say Damn Ebayers! Tax 'em and sod 'em!!

There's tax included in the sales fee as a seller.

That is an option here in the States. I don't see small guys doing that, but larger commercial operations often do.

And then some charge tax on shipping and handling too, aaarrrggghhh!!!

As state law obligates them to do .....

On shipping and handling??

Seriously?

Yes. https://www.boe.ca.gov/formspubs/pub100/
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