Thursday, December 10, 2009

Is it legal for non profit organizations to sell products from their website with the .edu extension

Like a college bookstore selling tshirts from the website.



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Why would it be illegal?



Harvard has a 35 BILLION dollar endowment yet they still charge tuition (I know not to everyone). Non-profits have all sorts of ways to get around the profit issue but in reality they run exactly like for profit businesses but have gotten the government to treat them differently. T-shirts are the least of the issues for schools. They make plenty of money on the books they sell and the other fees they charge you.



It's not illegal but you can probably get them cheaper elsewhere.



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Selling t-shirts is normal and incidental to the purpose of a university (or any other organization). Definitely not illegal.



Also an .edu or .org domain does not mean the organization is not for profit or tax exempt. You can create your own .edu domain.

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