It's absurd for states to demand the same rules for people accepting consignments for online auctions as for traditional live auctions. Somewhere there's a middle ground.
"Tod Cohen, eBay's deputy general counsel and vice president of government relations, criticized the idea of trying to squeeze consignment sellers into decades-old regulatory categories. Existing laws against fraud provide ample legal recourse against dishonest sellers, he said.
'States are taking offline regulations and without thought applying them to online marketplaces,' Cohen said. 'They're not equivalents. Trading assistants, which on the face sounds similar to consignment sellers or traditional auctioneers...should not be subject to the same levels of regulation.' "
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