I have a question about this site.

Are there tax liabilty ramifications for declaring myself a "merchant?"  If I 
just want to sell a used computer I have sitting around, I don't think I want 
to explicitly register as a merchant.  I am not in business to sell, I just 
have something to sell.

I think there is a distinction there and this would make me reluctant to use 
this site because I have to register as a merchant before I can sell anything.

Of course, anyone is welcome to correct me if I am wrong!

Alan

On Saturday 16 March 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote:
> To the group,
>
> Near the end of November as best as I can recall, there was a posting that
> spoke of developing a for sale site that everyone could use to post things
> for sale.  It was mentioned that Unity Wave may be able to assist with our
> programming for this project.
>
> We now have www.forsale.unitywave.com available for viewing, posting,
> etc.  There are a couple of things that may be confusing.  In order to post
> your ad, you must become a merchant first.  Near the top of the site is a
> link.  Click that Merchant link, fill in the form and hit submit.  Some
> time later, you will receive an email (so it's important to put in a valid
> email address).  From that email, you need to take the passcode, return to
> the site, find the space to enter the passcode, then follow the process.
>
> After you have finished this process, you will then be able to enter items
> you have for sale.  I will not promote the site to search engines until
> near the end of the coming week due to time constraints for the person that
> has offered to complete this task for me.  But after that, it will become a
> published site.
>
> Word of mouth will be necessary to further promote and sell your items.  If
> you should have any questions, please let me know.  If you see anything
> that you wish to change other than the URL issues already in the works to
> change, let me know of those things too.
>
> Until the site becomes heavy with traffic, it's free to post and change
> your for sales items as necessary.  All submits will be screened for porn,
> profanity and nudity, to protect the innocent and to largely keep the law
> out of the pot.  Mainly, this is for all the people I know and love, to
> post their extra parts and pieces (hey, my mom has good stuff too!).  At
> some point, we realized that others should post too and get the same
> benefit from it.  We may use this for any type of reference library (as
> also mentioned some time ago) or other such useful things under another sub
> domain.  If you have suggestions like this, by all means necessary, let me
> know!  : )
>
> We will also begin to use this kind of programming on the AZOTO site for
> signing up members and volunteers.  That may be a week or more in finishing
> due to time constraints on a paying project at the moment.
>
> Thank you for the opportunity to show what we have (only a small portion of
> it) to all of you.  Good luck and hope you all make gads of money selling
> stuff.......
>
> Kimi Adams
> Unity Wave
> 602-375-5363
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