Just wanted to share some information that I came accross today about the IRS tracking seller payment transactions beginning next yer. Read below.

Internet sellers who don't report their sales will no longer be under the radar. Starting next year, any bank or other payment settlement company that processes credit cards, debit cards, and electronic payments such as PayPal will have to issue information returns telling the IRS what merchants receive. The new returns are Form 1099-K, Merchant Card and Third-Party Payments. Read the full article here...

But don't worry my fellow ebayer's there is an exception built in that many of us small time sellers fall under. I found this bit of info below, in the article linked above:

Exception: Very small merchants won't be issued information returns. "Small" for this purpose means annual gross sales on merchant cards of no more than $20,000 or 200 or fewer transactions. In other words, reporting is required only if gross amounts for the year exceed $20,000 and there are more than 200 transactions.

My daughter and I just got back from our annual snowboarding trip to Seven Springs Ski Resort, in Seven Springs, PA and let me tell you we had a really good time. The snow was incredible with over 2 feet of snow in a 3 day period.


The picture of above is my daughter making snow angles while resting from the awesome down hill boarding.

I made a few videos that you can watch if you want to which I uploaded to youtube. I will post the links below. These videos are fun to watch if you like the snow life. All videos are on youtube and open in a new window.

Mr Bump snowboarding in white out conditions

My Daughter Snowboarding Gettin Some Air

Mr Bump snowboarding helmet cam awesome conditions


Mr Bump helmet cam snowboarding to the big hill for the big bump

Our second blizzard  and snowiest winter this year breaks our record snow fall in Baltimore, MD which was previously 62.5 inches in Baltimore in 1995-96, and 54.4 inches in Washington in 1898-99.   As of Wednesday afternoon, Baltimore had 72.3 inches so far this winter which beaks the all time snowiest winter record.  Blizzard video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcPEjdLZtM 

Snowmans NOT, we are talking Igloos, we have so much snow you can tunnel your way all around your yard how cool is that?  The only problem is shoveling out your vehicles, we have had back to back blizzards with over 2 feet each within one week and let me tell you shoveling isn't just shovel and throw, it's more like shovel and carry, then throw, because there is nowhere to throw it, so you have to carrry it to a new pile.  Pretty crazy weather but hey, love driving in it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCbM9Ov6oQ8

We reached another milestone here at www.auctionbump.com so far we have had over one half of a million visitors to our website since it inception  March 12, 2007.  In just under 3 years we have had 505,431 visitors to our popular and original free ebay auction bump website.  We at www.auctionbump.com want to thank all the bumpers, advertisers, and visitors for checking out our website and welcome your continued visits to our site.  www.auctionbump.com traffic has increase monthly at an incredible rate since we first launched.  Again we want to thank the entire internet community for making www.auctionbump.com the most popular bump website for free advertising of your ebay auctions, websites, blogs, youtube videos, eHow articles, bonanzle items, twitter, myspace, and all the other popular social networking websites on the world wide web.

Mr Bump

Wow, you go girl!!!

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