My tax guy said...

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droobleZ

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Alright, so I had my tax guy over today, and he was wondering how I made all this money online (that's always fun trying to explain). Anyway, once I got past explaining, he said how I could get into legal trouble.

He said that if a visitor that went to my website (Website A) and was referred from my website to a different website (Website B) and the visitor purchased something from Website B that he never received, he could then take legal action against Website B and Website A (me).

Is this true or is my tax guy an asshat?
 


Is your tax guy also a lawyer? I think that's all you need to know. Tell him to prep your taxes and then stfu.
 
Probably not. I'm not a lawyer, but my wife is and thinks that sounds unlikely. But she also is a tax attorney with no expertise in internet law.
 
One of many reasons that I no longer tell people what I do for a living. They always have something retarded to say about it.

I think your tax guy is just an asshat.
 
OH FUCKING SHIT. I was gonna get into affiliate marketing. No way WAAAAAAAY TOO risky. FUCK, back to the drawling board.
 
He is being an ass.

So I got a site referring you to amazon. You buy something, but amazon doesn't deliver.

You got fuck all against me, take it up with the vendor, please.

If this would work, you could sue the advertising company when your toaster explodes.

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it is your responsibility to research the products you promote...for example if you are promoting a hoodia product and it turns out that there is no hoodia in the pills and you are essentially advertising snake oil..yes you could get in trouble for that..check the ftc.gov website there are cases going on all the time with internet marketing...that being said if you stick to the big affiliate networks and the products they endorse you should be ok
 
it is your responsibility to research the products you promote...for example if you are promoting a hoodia product and it turns out that there is no hoodia in the pills and you are essentially advertising snake oil..yes you could get in trouble for that..check the ftc.gov website there are cases going on all the time with internet marketing...that being said if you stick to the big affiliate networks and the products they endorse you should be ok

Do you have anything to back that statement up?
 
Just drive PPC direct to merchant page and you dont have to worry about it haha.
 
Wow, thanks for all the responses!
I explained to him about the Terms and Conditions and Disclaimers thing and he says "that's all bullshit".

I'll get a new tax guy ;) .
 
he could then take legal action against Website B and Website A (me).
You guys that think you CAN'T be sued are complete morons.

Anyone CAN be sued for ANY reason even if it is WRONG to do so.

However, after paying your lawyer 4 digits, it'll get dropped.

The answer, your tax man is 100% factually correct. If you have your hands involved in money, you can be sued.

He didn't say you'd lose......
 
I would thank him for the advice and move on. All businesses are risky. If some guy breaks into my house and cuts himself on the window he's crawling through, he will sue me for all I'm worth and make me homeless. It's just life- fuck it.
 
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