http://www.ecommercereport.com.au Australia's online business newsletter Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ecommercereport.com.au/facebook-crackdown-shuts-down-nz-business-page-9000-fans-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Facebook Giveaways & Contests: Why It Matters That a Facebook Page in New Zealand Got Shut Down - Tips & instructions for beginning and intermediate bloggers. Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00:51 +0000 http://www.ecommercereport.com.au/?p=2711#comment-287 [...] Facebook Giveaways & Contests: Why It Matters That a Facebook Page in New Zealand Got Shut Down May 14, 2012 By Melanie Nelson Leave a Comment Facebook promotions (i.e., contests and giveaways) have guidelines businesses and individuals must abide by. I wrote about the Facebook Promotions Guidelines in 2011. I included a copy of the main points of the guidelines and explained how to interpret those points. I also explained out that you could lose your page if you fail to adhere to the guidelines. Responses then and now, privately and publicly, include questions about whether Facebook is really monitoring fan pages for violating the promotions guidelines. Usually, Facebook relies on others to alert them to an issue where someone is violating the terms of service or promotions guidelines. However, there are cases of Facebook business pages being deleted in India, and now a Facebook business page in New Zealand has also been deleted. [...] [...] Facebook Giveaways & Contests: Why It Matters That a Facebook Page in New Zealand Got Shut Down May 14, 2012 By Melanie Nelson Leave a Comment Facebook promotions (i.e., contests and giveaways) have guidelines businesses and individuals must abide by. I wrote about the Facebook Promotions Guidelines in 2011. I included a copy of the main points of the guidelines and explained how to interpret those points. I also explained out that you could lose your page if you fail to adhere to the guidelines. Responses then and now, privately and publicly, include questions about whether Facebook is really monitoring fan pages for violating the promotions guidelines. Usually, Facebook relies on others to alert them to an issue where someone is violating the terms of service or promotions guidelines. However, there are cases of Facebook business pages being deleted in India, and now a Facebook business page in New Zealand has also been deleted. [...]

]]> http://www.ecommercereport.com.au/online-shoppers-to-pay-higher-income-taxes-to-replace-lost-gst-revenues/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Tim Thu, 03 May 2012 04:01:20 +0000 http://www.ecommercereport.com.au/?p=2721#comment-285 So how many Australians have never bought something from an overseas vendor? I can't see how this has been thought through rationally. There are two primary reasons people buy from overseas... 1. Because demand exceeds local supply; or 2. Because it is substantially cheaper overseas - therefore more affordable and accessible to those who don't have much cash (ie: pensioners, unemployed, struggling families, underprivileged) Why should anybody be forced to pay more tax in either scenario? The real problem is that our Australian retailers are not competitive. Don't penalise customers for something retailers refuse to address. Any government that actually implemented this would have to be misguided and desperate. So how many Australians have never bought something from an overseas vendor? I can’t see how this has been thought through rationally. There are two primary reasons people buy from overseas…
1. Because demand exceeds local supply; or
2. Because it is substantially cheaper overseas – therefore more affordable and accessible to those who don’t have much cash (ie: pensioners, unemployed, struggling families, underprivileged)
Why should anybody be forced to pay more tax in either scenario?
The real problem is that our Australian retailers are not competitive. Don’t penalise customers for something retailers refuse to address.
Any government that actually implemented this would have to be misguided and desperate.

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