Selling things on craigslist might be back!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you're using craigslist to avoid ebay 1099, which is.... illegal.

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

You’re welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ebay requires you submit your SS# to them and they treat all sellers like a business. This because of government mandate.

I'm okay with getting rid of federal employee bloat. The IRS has so many employees they're beating the bushes looking for fresh sources of taxes (ebay virtual yard sales). Sure, it's justifying their $100,000+ jobs to pat themselves on the back. Go after the large sellers on Ebay, or the Air B-N-B businesses, but don't create a huge hassle for traditional virtual yard sellers. Again, I'm not sorry those dingdongs are losing their jobs.

This is propoganda. The workload in IRS was insane. My BIL worked at the Large businesses and Internationals unit. Each of them works on 5 cases at any giving time, the tax owed on each case is $800 million on average. He worked late everyday, and on the weekend. And there is a huge back log. Now all cases are closed and he is fired. The big corporations and rich don't have to worry about tax anymore. Only the salaried people will have to pay full since AI can handle the easy cases.

how many total roughly do you know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ebay requires you submit your SS# to them and they treat all sellers like a business. This because of government mandate.

I'm okay with getting rid of federal employee bloat. The IRS has so many employees they're beating the bushes looking for fresh sources of taxes (ebay virtual yard sales). Sure, it's justifying their $100,000+ jobs to pat themselves on the back. Go after the large sellers on Ebay, or the Air B-N-B businesses, but don't create a huge hassle for traditional virtual yard sellers. Again, I'm not sorry those dingdongs are losing their jobs.

The stupidity is so frustrating.

Let’s repeat for you: career employees do not set policy, they implement it. Political officials make those decisions, not rank and file employees who do audits

Your last statement is provably false. Career employees decide how to interpret the vague policies which is essentially rulemaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you're using craigslist to avoid ebay 1099, which is.... illegal.

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

As others have said, that's not how taxes work. If you sell your couch that was originally $2000 for $50, that's a loss, no tax. The 1099 rule for ebay is to catch the people that are running a business and actually making profit.


Which is why the $600 is stupid. I sold 2 bags and 3 pairs of shoes from my closet last year, and I would have gotten a form for that limit. Seriously, I have no problem with forcing businesses to pay taxes but imposing this burden on occasional sellers is nuts.

Exactly. Go after the volume sellers on Ebay. Go after the corporate rental outfits like Blackrock. Go after the AirB&B businesses. Don't force the occasional sellers to maintain accounting documents for your pleasure. Jeez.

[Anonymous]

Barter Town will always be king of economics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ebay requires you submit your SS# to them and they treat all sellers like a business. This because of government mandate.

I'm okay with getting rid of federal employee bloat. The IRS has so many employees they're beating the bushes looking for fresh sources of taxes (ebay virtual yard sales). Sure, it's justifying their $100,000+ jobs to pat themselves on the back. Go after the large sellers on Ebay, or the Air B-N-B businesses, but don't create a huge hassle for traditional virtual yard sellers. Again, I'm not sorry those dingdongs are losing their jobs.

The stupidity is so frustrating.

Let’s repeat for you: career employees do not set policy, they implement it. Political officials make those decisions, not rank and file employees who do audits

Your last statement is provably false. Career employees decide how to interpret the vague policies which is essentially rulemaking.

So you got nailed for doing something stupid & according to your interpretation of rules? Got it. Obviously you don't know how government rulemaking works. It's decided at the political level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you're using craigslist to avoid ebay 1099, which is.... illegal.

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

Its been taxed already multiple times. And the buyers pay sales tax again too buying used stuff thats been taxed many, many times. Use your brain dolt.

[Anonymous]

There is some good stuff on craigslist!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is some good stuff on craigslist!

I used to love Craigslist. Never knew what treasures you'd find.

What are you finding these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Craigslist used to be the best place to go to sell furniture and household goods but for years not much has moved for anyone but happy to report I posted something yesterday and sold it today! I hope its back for good so much easier for larger things an ebay is 1099 every one now. Im going to try and sell all my one bedroom furniture and move with almost nothing!

Anyone else have luck there lately?

Always has been. Just many people have been using FB lately and forgot about it.

[Anonymous]

I had a car for sale on Craigslist for two weeks. Every nutcase has called but never showed up. During the two weeks the car was parked in the front yard. At least 20 people stopped and looked at it and one of them bought it. Craigslist was a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you're using craigslist to avoid ebay 1099, which is.... illegal.

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

You only have to pay taxes if you make a profit. eBay sending 1099s to everyone just makes them have to show, item by item, that they didn’t make a profit.

I don’t think anyone is selling things for a profit on craigslist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Craigslist used to be the best place to go to sell furniture and household goods but for years not much has moved for anyone but happy to report I posted something yesterday and sold it today! I hope its back for good so much easier for larger things an ebay is 1099 every one now. Im going to try and sell all my one bedroom furniture and move with almost nothing!

Anyone else have luck there lately?

Wired for Covid times and will work for high tariff times!

Anyone need a $500 used kid bike from China that now costs $1000?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you're using craigslist to avoid ebay 1099, which is.... illegal.

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

You only have to pay taxes if you make a profit. eBay sending 1099s to everyone just makes them have to show, item by item, that they didn’t make a profit.

I don’t think anyone is selling things for a profit on craigslist

There is no way to do this though. It's a catch 22.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Craigslist used to be the best place to go to sell furniture and household goods but for years not much has moved for anyone but happy to report I posted something yesterday and sold it today! I hope its back for good so much easier for larger things an ebay is 1099 every one now. Im going to try and sell all my one bedroom furniture and move with almost nothing!

Anyone else have luck there lately?

Always has been. Just many people have been using FB lately and forgot about it.

"Im going to try and sell all my one bedroom furniture and move with almost nothing!"

How is it going? did it work?