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Are you watching the sand shift  - your opinions

ONLINE TRADERS  - The subject of online auctions and state licensing as an
auctioneer is the issue of the New Year [new Millennium] and beyond! Should
individual States impose legislation on online traders?



August 12, 1999 the New Hampshire State Board of Auctioneers posted a notice in the Manchester Union Leader concerning folks selling items for "others" at online auctions and via catalog, saying it was illegal unless these folks were licensed auctioneers in NH


Thursday, August 24, 2000 Ref: N.H. Board of Auctioneers
Having spent the last four years of my life at online auctioneering and recently hearing about the attempt to license online auctioneering, I would like to be on the list of people that could be used as a test case in this matter. Anyone with any common sense about interstate sales, knows that this matter is not in the hands of the Board or the State of New Hampshire. The laws of the Sate of New Hampshire are for the Residents of New Hampshire and cannot be enforced on residents of other places. Perhaps the Board is reacting in its own interest and should stick to their limited field of old fashioned ways and self interest. Their position will only create less respect by the people that they claim to protect. My stand is that I will continue online auctioneering and welcome any opposition Now that they have something to do but whine, Let the Courts decide.
Best Regards, R.Woodmancy,, Laconia, N.H


August, 1999  NH residents who use online auctions to sell for others need to be licensed as an auctioneer.


August, 1999 Auctions and Auctioning, By Jim Clapp, Partner asSYSter, LLC
Due to a recent open letter from the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers published next to our business ad (asSYSter, LLC) in the Auction section of the Manchester Union


eBay Takes A Stand….
and North Carolina Joins  the Online Licensing Fray!


November, 1999
Initiative:  What does North Carolina Law Mean to you?

December 17, 1999
Response by eBay to its Community:  North Carolina Auctioneers Commission has voted unanimously to temporarily defer any further  proposed action to impose licensing requirements on sellers who use  Internet trading sites and has referred the matter for study to the  existing Joint Select Committee on Information Technology of the North Carolina General Assembly.



December, 1999  The Nashua Telegraph

December, 1999  The Online Auction Users Association (OAUA) is very interested and concerned about the  actions of the New Hampshire auction board.........

Related link, What's Going on with the NAA?



February, 2000 Another Opinion…E-Commerce Evaluation By George Michael