Greetings "cameracamera" and all...
We realize that every category has unique challenges and opportunities and we appreciate your entrepreneurship, ability, and efforts towards building an electronics business on Baazee. Below are some thoughts and clarifications about our polices which we hope should respond to your concerns.
First, we understand your suggestions about an "authorized distribution" program. As you are probably aware, industry, and association distribution rules or "licensing" such as that you refer to are tremendously complex, always changing, and far reaching. As stated in our User Agreement, eBay does not have the ability to know all of these rules and it is incumbent upon our users to resolve these issues independently prior to listing items on the site.
Second, our User Agreement requires users to pay any applicable duties or taxes prior to listing an item on the site. Our User Agreement is a legally enforceable contract, and in addition, eBay/Baazee cooperates with the authorities to enforce such laws when law enforcement or tax authorities are engaged in such investigations.
If you think you have found a case where a user is in violation of our User Agreement or the law, eBay/Baazee will act to suspend such user upon receipt of documented proof. If you have an independent dispute or contract you seek to enforce against a user, such as the "authorized distributor" issues above, please contact that user directly.
For more details on import-specific policies on eBay/Baazee, please refer to the following excerpt from the Baazee user policy:
"You shall comply with all applicable Domestic (including the provisions of any applicable Exchange Control Laws or Regulations in Force) and International Laws, Foreign Exchange Laws, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations (including, but not limited to Sales Tax, Income Tax, Octroi, Service Tax, Central Excise, Custom Duty, Local Levies) regarding your use of our service and your bidding on, listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of items or services. You shall not engage in any transaction in an item or service, which is prohibited by the provisions of any applicable law including exchange control laws or regulations for the time being in force. In particular you shall ensure that if any of your items listed on the Site qualifies as an "Antiquity" or "Art treasure" as defined in the Act ("Artwork"), you shall indicate that such Artwork is "non-exportable" and shall ensure that it is not delivered to any Winning bidder/buyer (as defined under the Bidding and Buying section) at any place outside India. "
For further information about eBay/Baazee policies, the entire agreement is available here:
http://www.baazee.com/static/help/TermsandConditions.html
