On 26 Apr 2005 at 21:07, Butch Black wrote: > Working in retail selling cameras and TV's I have no problem with someone > looking at an item or asking a question or two, at least if we are not > overly busy. It's part of the game. Don't take up 2-3 hours of my time then > announce that you can buy it on line for $20 less and no sales tax. That goes > back to my prior comment of playing fair. And please don't come back after > purchasing on-line to have me show you how to use it.
I suspect the fact that the US doesn't have national sales tax consistency really encourages inter-state on-line sales too. It's not the same here, our pseudo sales tax (GST) is 10% country wide and it's very difficult to get out of paying it (or rather to claim it back). Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998