CNN, via Yahoo News on Tuesday reports that the State of Ohio has
> become very unfriendly toward online sellers using E-Bay.
> According to CNN-Money, State of Ohio now requires an auction license
> of people who want to sell on E-Bay, as well as a one-year training
> class required of sellers _and_ a fifty thousand dollar security
> bond. The auction license costs two hundred dollars. If you fail to
> do these things, they have some jail time waiting for you. Their
> excuse is they want to 'cut back on internet fraud using E-Bay'.
>
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For those that care there is large discussion of this in the group alt.marketing.online.ebay
LB