The company said this improvement is principally due to higher auction commission revenues resulting from a 23 percent increase in net auction sales, partially offset by a decline in auction commission margin from 17.2 percent to 16.4 percent, attributable to the sales mix.

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The most disinterested advice, if not always the cheapest, will come from someone paid by the hour, not with a sales commission.

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In fact, this memo from the California Alcoholic Beverage Commission appears to suggest Groupon, as an Internet provider soliciting sales that include (or can include) alcohol, needs to hold a license in that state.

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Consumers Union, Consumer Federation and other advocacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission in September to help prevent gift card losses by requiring retailers to put money from card sales in a separate trust fund that would be affected by a bankruptcy.

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She also supports licensing and registration of handguns, mandatory trigger locks for handguns, holding adults responsible for their children's use of guns, raising the youth handgun ban from age 18 to 21, limiting gun sales to one per month and allowing the Consumer Products Safety Commission regulate guns.

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