Former Gold Coast director of Bidding Buzz Pty Ltd Matthew Daniel Clarkson pleads guilty to making false statement to ASIC

The former Gold Coast director of a company that mentored people on eBay selling techniques has pleaded guilty to lying to the corporate regulator about company debts.

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THE former Gold Coast director of a company that mentored people on eBay selling techniques has pleaded guilty to lying to the corporate regulator about company debts.

Matthew Daniel Clarkson, of Mermaid Beach, pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court earlier this month to making a false or misleading statement to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

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Clarkson is a former director of Bidding Buzz Pty Ltd, which offered self-directed and personal mentoring courses to people who wanted to learn about selling on eBay.

An ASIC investigation found that Clarkson lodged a document with ASIC to voluntary deregister Bidding Buzz on July 25, 2019, stating that the company had no outstanding liabilities.

Southport Courthouse.

However, Bidding Buzz owed $20,059 to a creditor.

Clarkson was convicted and fined $2000 in the Southport Magistrates Court on November 16.

He was also disqualified from managing corporations until November 15, 2025.

Bidding Buzz’s LinkedIn profile describes it as the “world’s No. 1 eBay education company” that is “leading the way to showing people how to set up a successful eBay business”.

It says Clarkson found success two years after starting to sell on eBay in 2006.

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