Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're really splitting hairs here, just joking. Now that's a real complicated issue on water classification. I doubt as resourceful as our government is, your posted question will have them all scratching their heads. - --- Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote: > At 12:48 PM -0600 4/23/03, Kit McChesney | acmefoto > wrote: > >Frank-- > > > >Not sure what others do. When you buy online (as > with our site) you pay no > >tax if you are outside Colorado. If you are in the > UK, and buy from us, you > >have to take care of the VAT on your end. We have > nothing to do with that. > >We just ship the goods and you get to wrestle with > customs. I always tell > >folks if they are going to buy from us, if they are > outside the U.S., to > >find out exactly what customs charges on their end > will apply, so that there > >are no unpleasant surprises. > > > >So our price is what you pay, period. Whatever > quote I give you, that's what > >you'll pay to me, for goods and shipping. What you > pay to customs is another > >issue! > > > >Kit > > I believe what Frank means (as I understand it) is > that if he showed > up at your store, and saw a price tag of $19.95 on > an item, he would > not get change back from a twenty, but would be > asked to ante up more > to cover the tax before being allowed to leave with > the goods. > > That doesn't happen AFAIK outside of N.America. > > I ran into a truly idiotic version of this the other > day. I wanted to > buy a case of a certain sparkling water, and while a > stock boy went > to get it, the cashier rang it up. I paid, but the > water that was > brought was a different brand. The difference for > the case was $3, > and the bottle deposit etc was the same, so I handed > the cashier the > three dollars. But no, he wanted more. Turns out the > incorrect water > was still water, and while there is no tax on still > bottled water, > sparkling water is taxed, even though both types > came directly from > springs. > > So I asked the cashier how much CO2 there has to be > in a bottle > before it was taxed. Unsurprisingly, he didn't know. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html