Looking for some honest advice

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Hello everyone,

I’m just getting started in the business and have started to getmy first few interested customers.  Before I go much further I was wondering if anyone in the USA (Florida specifically if you’re out there) can tell me if ANY aspect of this business (shipping panties, photos, accepting e-payments, etc.) is in ANY WAY illegal in Florida or the US.

BEtter yet, does anyone know where I can go to research the laws first hand?

Thanks in advance for your responses!!!

You can do some research on here to begin with, We had a very similar thread on this topic a while ago. Use the search function or just manually go through the relevant forums like the 411, Help for New sellers or Buying and Selling. I seem to remember that someone helpfully posted a whole load about biological hazards.

When i finally get the ‘eggs’ to meet with some business advisers (for a variety of reasons), i’ll ask how to find out for sure about legality in the US. Could be several months out still, but i almost-promise to post what i learn here.

I do things weird ways, but i stick to ’em. Panty selling is not the main topic of the meeting. This, however, does not bode well –

“There are potenitally a lot of problems selling panties. A girl in South Carolina was prosecuted for selling obscene and dirty material. See the story below.

Clemson grad pleads guilty to mailing ‘filthy’ panties
By Anna Simon
CLEMSON BUREAU
asimon@greenvillenews.com

ANDERSON — A recent Clemson University graduate pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to using the U.S. Postal Service to mail “indecent and filthy things” that she sold through her Internet Web site.

Christine A. Vetter, who graduated in May, will be sentenced after a presentence report is completed. The maximum sentence she could face is a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in jail and two to three years of supervised release, U.S. District Judge G. Ross Anderson Jr. said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald said in court that between November 2000 and this past March, while Vetter was a Clemson student, she operated a Web site from which she sold and mailed soiled panties.

Other items included used feminine hygiene products, used condoms and sex aids, he said.

McDonald said the case is unique because of the type of items mailed. He said during his research on the case that he “couldn’t find any other reported cases.”

“For the most part this statute has been used to prosecute offenders that mailed photographs or writing that could be considered obscene or filthy. In this instance we are talking about actual things, rather than photographs or writings of those things,” McDonald said.

Vetter, 21, of Central, told the judge that she got the idea when she “stumbled upon” an adult auction Web site.

“I needed some spending money because I was in college and needed a job,” she said.

She said she mailed unwashed clothing, audio cassette tapes, photographs and used vibrators.

She also said she made less than $6,000 but had no exact total. She said she had about 100 customers throughout the nation, and she said that she ran the Web site alone.

Postal investigators learned of Vetter’s enterprise because of a disgruntled customer who had bought panties, McDonald said.

Postal investigators found records of 225 sales through the Web site ranging from $20 to $50 depending on the item, McDonald said.

The Web site has been taken down, McDonald said.”

That happened back in 2002. Here is a link Anna:

http://www.local6.com/news/1545746/detail.html

You can never go wrong with being discreet.

😉

And Ms. Vetter actually ‘only’ got 5 years probation and had to participate in a “mental health” program (wtf?)

That’s an old story that involved way more then selling panties.

As far as the legalities of what we do? I’m sure there’s a trivial law somewhere but I wouldn’t loose any sleep over it. Mailing Bio Waste could be illegal but then again is sending home your laundry for Mom to wash a crime?

I say relax and don’t obsess over the legalities. People have been doing this for years with no problems.  😉