logansfury opened this issue on Dec 31, 2005 ยท 129 posts
byAnton posted Sat, 31 December 2005 at 9:32 AM
Linda you are mistaken. I have been an independant contractor for 15 years. I have worked every version of the independant contractor biz there is for 15 years. If you are responsible for paying your own taxes, you are "truly" self-employed. Firstly, a brokering arrangement is basically "You make the product and we host it and do the transactions". This arrangement may include site advertising and marketing. But that does NOT include making marketing decisions for individual products, less you are dealing with a "legal" issue, which this isn't. Store owners, who are ultimately responsible for all site content, can reject product not in line with what the store sells, but they should not cross the line into telling a broker how to sell, market, or design the product. Those decisions are the sole resposibility of the broker. The site provides space only, and should avoid interfering in anything aside from the hosting and transactions it's agreed to provide for it's percentage. If the site has contracted work to be done, it can be in exchange for a brokering percentage, but is not the same as a what I have described above.
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