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Newegg charging me sales tax
- Thread starter ricksimm
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www.googlegear.com is excellent
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wtf?!?! the opened one in TN? thought they only had CA and NJ?
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Just as long as they stay out of NY.
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Googlegear.com is now zipzoomfly.com. I guess they got sued even though they deny it.
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ricksimm said:
I am curious why you would be so quick to abandon a known quality vendor just because of sales tax. For the quality of service, even the sales tax (what is it, 5% maybe?) would be worth the price of admission for me.
My $0.03 (tax included)
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Well, tax is a big deal to me. My provincial and federal tax= 14.5%.
My government is too stupid too see that people have other options......like not spending money in canada!!!
For example I can buy in the U.S., have it sent to family and they will Fedex the package to me. Thus, I avoid ALL taxes and applicable duties (they send it to me as a gift).
I'm an Economics major. In some of my classes we look at how tax effects consumers and producers. Depending on the elasticity there is almost always a "Deadweight" loss.
Clearly its impossible to have a world without taxes (I tend to like roads and hospitals etc.) but its easy to see how peoples preferences change due to the change in taxes.
In conclusion......taxes suck
My government is too stupid too see that people have other options......like not spending money in canada!!!
For example I can buy in the U.S., have it sent to family and they will Fedex the package to me. Thus, I avoid ALL taxes and applicable duties (they send it to me as a gift).
I'm an Economics major. In some of my classes we look at how tax effects consumers and producers. Depending on the elasticity there is almost always a "Deadweight" loss.
Clearly its impossible to have a world without taxes (I tend to like roads and hospitals etc.) but its easy to see how peoples preferences change due to the change in taxes.
In conclusion......taxes suck
Re: Re: Newegg charging me sales tax
TN tax is 9.25% that makes a big difference on price. I love newegg, and will probably continue to buy from them. But there are few companies that would keep my business after jacking the price up almost 10%.
Plus for me I would rather burn my 9.25% than have it go to taxes but that is another topic
Newbie_Doo said:
TN tax is 9.25% that makes a big difference on price. I love newegg, and will probably continue to buy from them. But there are few companies that would keep my business after jacking the price up almost 10%.
Plus for me I would rather burn my 9.25% than have it go to taxes but that is another topic
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9.25% Ouch. One of the reasons I left California and didn't cry a bit about it was the ever-increasing tax rates...
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I rememeber them raising the Taxes in Cali before I joined the AF back in 93. They were supposed to be an interm rate hike that would be cancelled in 2 years. But if the polititians want to keep something, and they really wanted to keep the hike, they kept quiet about it. After the 2 years was up they just renewed it. They kept renewing it untila couple years ago they made it permanent. Gotta love Cali but the politics and expenses suck. Its why I didn't go back.
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They keep raising it here too...up to 7%.
