Here is today's AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup.

"Law exempts Texans from tax on eBay sales: Residents tax-free for up to $3,000 in personal items sold on the Web in a calendar year," By PEGGY FIKAC, Houston Chronicle, 7/2/07
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4939378.html

"Businesses appear to have put "con" in consignment," By Melanie Payne, The News-Press, 7/2/07
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/COLUMNISTS40/70701056/1075

"EBay's Whitman Says Changes Needed to Placate Sellers (Update2)," By Danny King, Bloomberg, 7/3/07
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4aC_scgFwis&refer=news

"All aboard," posted on the Official Google Blog by Wesley Chan, 7/02/2007
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-aboard.html

"Scheduled maintenance on July 5," posted on the Official Google Checkout Blog, 7/3/07
http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2007/07/scheduled-maintenance-on-july-5.html