I've been super busy on the NY issue and have not had time to totally keep this thread up to date. AGAIN if you want the latest keep your eye on the blog and new comments in the blog.
In a nutshell LOTS of merchants have terminated NY affiliates.
MANY just sent affiliates notice yesterday the 30Th. saying they will
terminated the 31st. NO warning! Affiliates are scrambling to pull links
and replace merchants.
Quite a few are ammending their TOS thinking it will protect them.
I now think that the DMA advice may be wrong and merchants still do not understand the TBS. Understandable since it's so poorly written that even attorneys have differing viewpoints on what it means.
BUT SOME VERY BIG COMPANIES have put out public notice that they are keeping affiliates and avoiding the law by changing their TOS. I would not be surprised at all if NY went after one of the these companies for back taxes to make a statement and scare other merchants into reporting.
HUGE NEWS!
REALLY important update (I know I keep saying that but it is!)
Overstock Files Lawsuit w/ Supreme Court to Fight New York Tax Law
As I said in my blog, for a variety of reasons this could help us more than the AZ suit. YAY OVERSTOCK.
I gave Overstock a really hard time over dropping affiliates, this move helps a little to make up for it.