Pennsylvania enhances its bad reputation for being anti-business by threatening a stay-at-home mom with $10 million in fines for selling items on eBay without having an auctioneer’s license. The commonwealth is deciding whether to require an electronic auctioneer’s license (with a licensing fee) or to permit online auctions without such a license.

You can read more about it at philly.com in Bob Fernandez’s article titled “Pennsylvania takes on online auctions.”

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