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eBay users in ND may need auctioneer licenses

Friday, November 04, 2005 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor | Key concepts: Ebay, Store and Natural health

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Summary

To obtain an auctioneer's license, applicants must get a $5,000 surety bond, pay a $35 fee and be trained through an approved auction school. Regulators in other states are also considering similar restrictions.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/10/10/n.dakota.internet.sellers.ap/index.html

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  • BISMARCK, North Dakota (AP) -- To sell things over eBay, Mark Nichols may be required to take instruction in rapid-fire speaking, breathing control and reading hand gestures, even though the transactions are done by computer keyboard and mouse.
  • North Dakota's Public Service Commission is exploring whether people like Nichols, who runs a small consignment store in Crosby, must obtain auctioneer licenses before they can legally use eBay to sell merchandise for others.
  • Regulators in other states are also eyeing similar restrictions or preconditions, moves prompted by the growing popularity of online auctions.
  • To get a North Dakota auctioneer's license, applicants must pay a $35 fee, obtain a $5,000 surety bond and undergo training at one of eight approved auction schools, where the curriculum includes talking really fast.
  • In Tennessee, trading assistants and stores that sell consignment goods on eBay must obtain an auction "gallery license," which costs $100 a year and requires the holder to undergo 30 hours of education and establish a bank escrow account.
  • North Dakota's PSC already licenses auctioneers and is asking the state's attorney general for a legal opinion about whether the definition of an auctioneer covers eBay sellers.
  • Hani Durzy, an eBay spokesman, said the company believes state laws regulating auctioneers should not apply to eBay sellers.
  • Although eBay is often called an online auction service and uses many traditional auction terms, its sales are technically not auctions, Durzy said.
  • For one thing, he said, eBay sales give buyers a fixed amount of time to bid for merchandise, while a traditional auction is held open as long as there are bidders.
  • Nichols runs a consignment store called Variety Marketplace and said he has occasionally sold goods on eBay for customers.

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