IVIYTH0S Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 Can anyone explain to me why we have to pay twice the price of what's offered to US customers? F.F.S. we are a spitting distance from each other and all the crap about Canada being a smaller market just doesn't make any bloody sense to me. Hell Amazon, you are not sending the items to Mordor! Yeah I'm pissed lol, Here is what usually happens: Looking for something -> US Price -> go to Canadian site . Look up something called "reship". You'll thank me later. Did you use them before? I did a quick search on them and found only horror stories lolRejip Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 (edited) Can anyone explain to me why we have to pay twice the price of what's offered to US customers? F.F.S. we are a spitting distance from each other and all the crap about Canada being a smaller market just doesn't make any bloody sense to me. Hell Amazon, you are not sending the items to Mordor! Yeah I'm pissed lol, Here is what usually happens: Looking for something -> US Price -> go to Canadian site . Look up something called "reship". You'll thank me later. Did you use them before? I did a quick search on them and found only horror stories lolRejip I've used it many times, no issues. You should change your member title to "OCC Naysayer". Edited September 13, 2013 by Onion Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennethk Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 There's still no taxes on Amazon or any other online retailer unless you live in a state with a physical location (shipping center and/or brick-and-mortar store) or your state has the use tax (like Florida). Amazon even has a clear list of the states that get charged a sales tax if the item is bought directly from Amazon or one of its subsidiaries. Arizona California Georgia Kansas Kentucky New Jersey New York North Dakota Pennsylvania Texas Virginia Washington Now, the particular bill that is going to put sales tax on pretty much every online order could go into effect as early as October 1. There were some reports of it starting on September 1, however that doesn't seem to be the case as the last several items I've bought on Amazon didn't include a tax. Ebay is one of the companies fighting the bill, because it could impact any of its sellers that do more than $1 million a year in out-of-state business. It was wanting to put in a stipulation so companies under 50 employees and that do less than $10 million a year should be exempt, just I don't think that was ever successfully added. Regardless, we should all find out next week what the basic principles of the bill are going to be, just without any specific guidelines. But really, some people are already paying a sales tax on online purchases so they're use to that. Buying pretty much anything local in your state (most states, anyway) already subject you to a sales tax. So this is just to bring further parity to the field and help keep small businesses running, since if everything has a sales tax it'd be easier to buy local and have the item immediately rather than buy online and wait a few days. And of course I live in one of those states that it affects. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 Can anyone explain to me why we have to pay twice the price of what's offered to US customers? F.F.S. we are a spitting distance from each other and all the crap about Canada being a smaller market just doesn't make any bloody sense to me. Hell Amazon, you are not sending the items to Mordor! Yeah I'm pissed lol, Here is what usually happens: Looking for something -> US Price -> go to Canadian site . Look up something called "reship". You'll thank me later. Did you use them before? I did a quick search on them and found only horror stories lolRejip I've used it many times, no issues. You should change your member title to "OCC Naysayer". I just wanted to make that pun, I can't imagine they'd still be in business if they were that bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 You guys realize you are responsible for reporting ALL online purchases on your taxes...right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 You guys realize you are responsible for reporting ALL online purchases on your taxes...right? We talked about this in one of my classes on Wednesday. The professor works for the Social Security office in Jacksonville and he told us we're actually supposed to report all purchases, except nobody does, and the government doesn't care or go after you for the money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted September 14, 2013 Posted September 14, 2013 You guys realize you are responsible for reporting ALL online purchases on your taxes...right? When the corrupt corporations milking the tax loopholes pay up their far larger share, sure Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted September 14, 2013 Posted September 14, 2013 Waco, do you even report your purchases? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted September 14, 2013 Posted September 14, 2013 Waco, do you even report your purchases? He better for always popping into these discussions in such a way Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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