http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:50:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180390 HardCorps Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:51:01 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180390 The easiest way to prohibit activities is to first require a permit, then steady increase the criteria to meet, and then just ban it. The easiest way to prohibit activities is to first require a permit, then steady increase the criteria to meet, and then just ban it.

]]> http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180357 Sebastian Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:46:11 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180357 A permit for a garage sale? What will they think of next? I probably don't want to think about that for too long. A permit for a garage sale? What will they think of next? I probably don’t want to think about that for too long.

]]> http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180356 Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » E-Bay Sticking It To The Little Guy Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:25:49 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180356 [...] SaysUncle has an interesting little discussion point. Apparently E-Bay has made it harder for the average person to have a garage sale. [I]t’s a law that has been on the books for a long time but it was never enforced. Until Ebay. Seems a lot of folks run Ebay based businesses out of their homes. Whenever stuff wasn’t selling on Ebay, they’d have garage sales. And, apparently, people started complaining that certain other people were having garage sales every couple of weeks and were basically operating a trafficked business from their homes. [...] [...] SaysUncle has an interesting little discussion point. Apparently E-Bay has made it harder for the average person to have a garage sale. [I]t’s a law that has been on the books for a long time but it was never enforced. Until Ebay. Seems a lot of folks run Ebay based businesses out of their homes. Whenever stuff wasn’t selling on Ebay, they’d have garage sales. And, apparently, people started complaining that certain other people were having garage sales every couple of weeks and were basically operating a trafficked business from their homes. [...]

]]> http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180343 blackfork Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:25:09 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/09/04/ebay_making_it_hard_on_garage_sales/#comment-180343 I always featured a big, old military rifle with a bayonet on it in garage sales, just to have people see a gun. Used to put out a beat to hell Chilean Mauser with bayonet I paid 89 bucks for, bayo included. I priced it high and it never sold, but lots of folks looked at it. I always featured a big, old military rifle with a bayonet on it in garage sales, just to have people see a gun. Used to put out a beat to hell Chilean Mauser with bayonet I paid 89 bucks for, bayo included. I priced it high and it never sold, but lots of folks looked at it.

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