Category: Law
Author: Joseph R. Vazzo
Idea: WANTED;
An attorney to bring suit against the catalog mail order industry. Is not the practice of demanding a "handling charge" a violation of
law?
Since when should a customer pay any company employee for work performed on the firm's work site? Are those who "handle the product to be shipped not already paid? Is not asking the buyer to pay these indivdiuals just another way of in-creasing the price of the product?
Is not the purchaser now a part time employer of these employees?
How are the proceeds labeled on the firm's financial statements?
Is there a separate account for this income? Is it not likely that this income is masked as something other than receipts from sales.
There is absolutely no legal reason that the purchaser pay the
employee to do work somewhere other than at the purchasers location.
There is strong likelihood that these mail-order houses are guily of "hiding" income.
Thats it.
