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Amazon Warns Online Sellers of California's eWaste Act
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
January 04, 2005
Amazon posted an announcement on its Seller Announcements Board warning sellers of California's eWaste Act.
"As you may be aware, the state of California has recently passed a law, known as the Electronic Waste Recycling Act (the "eWaste Act"), under which retailers may need to pay a fee to the state of California for each "covered electronic device" (generally, products with video display screens exceeding four inches) sold to a California consumer after December 31, 2004. If you sell any of those kinds of products to consumers after that date, under the terms of the eWaste Act, you may need to either collect the applicable fee from the customer or provide an express statement on the sales receipt that the merchant elects to pay the fee on behalf of the consumer."
Amazon said it does not currently have functionality to separately charge and collect fees due under the eWaste Act.
"In order to facilitate compliance with the eWaste Act, commencing January 1, 2005, Amazon.com will include in each order confirmation e-mail a statement (the specific wording of which we will determine and may modify from time to time) indicating that the merchant has elected to pay any fees due under the eWaste Act on behalf of the consumer. In the future, Amazon.com may implement functionality that allows qualifying merchants to separately charge and collect fees due under the eWaste Act."
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first time im hearing of this. glad i dont live in CA. i think we all know where they can shove that law...
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More info - the following was posted on the eBay Seller Central Board last week:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.js...10 4283622444
According to this new law, fees must be collected by teh Retailer for the following categories of products:
Cathode Ray Tube Devices and Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT's)
Computer monitors containing CRT's
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) desktop monitors
Laptop computers with LCD screens
Televisions containing CRTs
Summary of fee amounts:
SCREEN SIZE FEE AMOUNT
>= 4" & < 15" $6
>= 15" & < 35" $8
35" or greater $10
You must collect the recycling fee whether you sell or lease from a store, by mail order, or over the INTERNET. Penaltieis for not collecting the fee can be as high as $5000 per sale or lease. The fee is not taxable plus you may keep 3% of the fee to cover your collection costs.
This applies to new or refurbished televisions, computer monitors, laptop computers or other video display devices.
For any questions on if your product you sell is in this category, you should be able to check with the mfr to see if it should be applied.
Complete info at http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/CRTs/SB20.html
Blanche
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not that i sell much of those types of items, but guess anything like that in the future i send to CA will be a "gift" to a "long distant" relative.
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eBay: Introducing Rethink Initiative to Address Electronic Waste
http://www2.ebay.com:80/aw/marketing...05-01-06111509
eBay Rethink http://pages.ebay.com/rethink/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB
Blanche
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Are they going to be requiring people who sell a tv or etc. at a garage sale to pay that fee?