This hold true for every state that charges sales tax. If you are in CA and hsve one local warehouse that you ship from, it is dead simple: You charge tax in CA and no tax anywhere else.
The mail order computer stuff companies have a more complicated situation. They have limited warehousing on their own. Almost everything is dropped shipped from distributors like Ingram Micro, Tech Data, etc., and those folks have warehouses everywhere. The big vendors are connected to the distributors extranets, but even that does not guarantee that they have current stock info, so if they sell you a framitz that is in IM's PA warehouse, and it turns out to only be available in CA, they (and you) have a problem. I went through a huge argument with a company in Denver who sold me a product that was supposedly coming from the manufacturer in Tennessee. They found out after the fact that it had shipped for CA and hit my credit card for the tax. I wound up in a heated conversation with the president of the company, and, finally, they took it off. Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company -----Original Message----- From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: Drop-Ship Limitations to California This is SOT but it may affect anyone writing programs to do ecommerce with customers in California. I was recently told by a pcConnection representative that they could only drop-ship items to California from pcConnection warehouses in Ohio and Tennessee -- because of California tax laws. Anyone ever heard of this? In my case it has caused a 2 1/2 month delay in receiving an item I ordered on Aug 2 that was in stock (but apparently not in the correct warehouse). TIA Dick "Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it." - Russell Baker - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| The annual ColdFusion User Conference is being held Sat 6/26 - Sun 6/27/04 8am-5pm in the Washington DC Area. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=44 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:181896 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
