| News | | Shopping Centre NEWS (gestart in 1999) is als vakblad gespecialiseerd in winkelcentra. In de zes edities die wij jaarlijks uitgeven, wordt aandacht besteed aan de nieuwste Nederlandse ontwikkelingen. Maar ook is er regelmatig aandacht voor bijzondere buitenlandse ontwikkelingen. Planmatige nieuwe ontwikkelingen zijn natuurlijk belangrijk, maar ook in onze oude binnensteden vinden veel veranderingen plaats. U leest er over in Shopping Centre NEWS. |
| Shopping & Retail News is an FREE online resource centre for news stories covering shopping and retail world wide. We offer our visitors the latest news headlines from the following categories: Shopping News, Retail News, Online Shopping News, London Shopping News, New York Shopping News, Paris Shopping News, Dubai Shopping News and Shopping News Trends. We also have a full archive with older stories in case you missed something important. | Amazon.com is suing the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (DTF) over a new state law that requires Internet retailers to collect sales tax on purchases shipped to state residents.
"If the seller registers and starts collecting sales tax by June 1, the seller will not be liable for tax not collected for sales tax quarters prior to June 1."
Tom Bergin, New York Dept. of Taxation and Finance.
Amazon has argued that since it does not have a physical presence in the state that it should not be required to collect taxes on shipments going to New York. "Amazon has no physical presence in New York," according to the suit. "It does not own, lease, or otherwise occupy any physical property in the state, and none of its employees works or resides in the state."
In addition Amazon says the New York law is unconstitutional based on a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that claims states are prohibited from requiring out of state retailers to collect sales tax unless the company has a physical presence in the state. | Park West sued by customers
Plaintiffs demand refunds for “fake” works as gallery dismisses “smear campaign”
Note: This is a developing story and we check for more indepth news about this scandal. (January 7th, it is an important story because potentially the market could get flooded with fake art prints and etchings.)
(Source The Art Newspaper)
MICHIGAN. Park West Gallery, which says it sells 300,000 works annually and earns more than $300m in annual art sales revenue, including through auctions on 85 cruise ships, has been sued by ten customers seeking refunds.
According to the complaint, filed in state court in Oakland County, Michigan, on 23 December, the gallery has refused to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars in purchase prices allegedly collectively paid by the plaintiffs for works by Dalí, Rembrandt and others. The art “was later found by experts to either be fake or have forged signatures, or to be heavily overpriced and misrepresented as bargains and investments”, the plaintiffs’ lawyers, Kaufman Payton & Chapa of Farmington Hills, Michigan, said in a statement on 8 January.
Park West, which is based in Southfield, Michigan, and is headed by Albert Scaglione, dismisses the allegations as false and malicious, and says that the suit is meritless.
“Over the past 40 years, Park West Gallery has served more than 1.2 million satisfied customers,” the gallery said in a statement on 9 January. “We stand behind the authenticity of everything we sell.” The gallery said the lawsuit was “organised to advance the business interests” of an organisation, Fine Art Registry, which Park West sued for defamation in Florida and Michigan in April 2008, citing material on the FAR website that is critical of the gallery. FAR’s assertions are “baseless,” says Rodger Young, the gallery’s lawyer in Southfield, Michigan.
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In the Michigan case, the ten plaintiffs allege that they paid amounts ranging from $7,000 to over $400,000 to Park West to buy one or more works represented to be by Goya, Marc Chagall, Dürer, Tomasz Rut and other artists, purportedly including etchings by Rembrandt and lithographs by Salvador Dalí. The transactions included purchases at cruise ship auctions and at Park West’s Michigan gallery, the allegations say. The plaintiffs say that they received certificates of authenticity and in a number of cases appraisals, and were also told in a number of cases that the art would go up in value over time. Instead, the complaint alleges, much of it is “worthless”, purportedly including in one case “images removed from an art magazine” and in other cases “digital prints which were nothing more than glorified posters”. The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs are not sophisticated art buyers, and relied on the representations the gallery made to them.
Divine Comedy? Divine Tragedy? Or Divine Farce?
The Great Park West Dali Half Million Dollar Swindle. A Short Summary.
A short summary of a full length documentary in which experts examine a set of Salvador Dali Divine Comedy prints, sold by Park West to two London based lawyers, for over half a million dollars. Examination of the prints show them to be genuine Dali woodblock prints BUT each with a FORGED Dali signature. The prints without the signatures would be worth about $10,000. The prints with genuine Dali signatures would be worth $30-50,000. The prints as they are, with forged signatures, are worth nothing. The video shows how Park West and Royal Caribbean International swindled Sharon Day and Julian Howard out of over half a million dollars. But the story is not over.
Park West Gallery under fire in lawsuit | Lifestyle and Trends is een fair voor levensgenieters, voor iedereen met oog voor kwaliteit en stijl en voor iedereen die zich laat inspireren door luxe lifestyle……
Op 15 en 16 maart 2008 organiseert Arte Beau voor de derde keer de lifestyle Fair Lifestyle en Trends. Deze vindt plaats op Landgoed Kasteel Daelenbroeck te Herkenbosch, Midden Limburg. Lifestyle en Trends is een toonaangevende lifestylefair voor iedereen die zich aangetrokken voelt tot een luxe levensstijl en oog heeft voor kwaliteit, stijl en exclusiviteit.
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A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups has launched a campaign to expose the Fox network's skewed and inaccurate coverage of global warming. The campaign, led by the Sierra Club, Brave New Films, and MoveOn.org Civic Action, includes a YouTube video called Fox Attacks: The Environment that exposes Fox's pattern of misinformation, and an online petition. | Retailer says 45 million credit card numbers stolen
Retail group TJX has disclosed that some 45.6 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by hackers in 2005 and 2006, along with other potentially sensitive customer information. | VeriSign to increase fees for '.com' and '.net' names in October
NEW YORK (AP)--The master-keeper of Internet addresses ending in ''.com'' and ''.net''-- two of the most popular domain name suffixes--said Thursday it would raise fees charged to register those names.
The annual levy for ''.com'' will increase 7 percent to $6.42 (euro4.80), and the ''.net'' fee will go up 10 percent to $3.85 (euro2.88). The per-name fees are what VeriSign Inc. collects from companies that sell domain names on its behalf, and such charges are generally incorporated in the prices companies, groups and individuals pay to register names. | The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), two of the leading public-interest advocacy groups working on behalf of a more diverse and competitive online environment, filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the commission to undertake an immediate, formal investigation of online advertising practices. As the groups make clear in their 50-page filing (PDF), the data collection and interactive marketing system that is shaping the entire U.S. electronic marketplace is being built to aggressively track Internet users wherever they go, creating data profiles used in ever-more sophisticated and personalized "one-to-one" targeting schemes. | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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