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.

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

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?

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

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

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?

Anonymous wrote:There is some good stuff on craigslist!

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

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Thanks for not paying your fair share in taxes.