Games more expensive at Target & Toys 'R' Us

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:00 pm

Average pricesfor video games at Target Corp., Toys R Us Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. were 5 percent to 10 percent higher than online retailer Amazon.com, whose prices before shipping were the lowest among the top eight video game retailers, an analyst said Wednesday. Best Buy Co. Inc. had the lowest prices among major bricks-and-mortar retailers

The take home message here is to buy your games online and avoid taxes and higher prices!

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:32 pm

I buy everything online for the fact that it's 95% of the time cheaper online than in the store and you don't pay taxes if the company isn't located in your state. All I gotta say is, they better not start putting tax on everything in the future like I've been hearing about.

nightblood · Post by **nightblood** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:17 pm

NAiLs wrote:I buy everything online for the fact that it's 95% of the time cheaper online than in the store and you don't pay taxes if the company isn't located in your state. All I gotta say is, they better not start putting tax on everything in the future like I've been hearing about.

Actually legally you have to pay taxes on it. If the IRS ever finds out then you have to pay back taxes.

They really have no way of tracking it though.

I did hear a story in wisconsin that the goverment contacted a cigarette retailer and got a list of everyone that was buying cigarettes online from wisconsin. They were sending Huge sales tax bills from last 10 years with interest to these unlucky people.

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:30 pm

nightblood wrote:
I did hear a story in wisconsin that the goverment contacted a cigarette retailer and got a list of everyone that was buying cigarettes online from wisconsin. They were sending Huge sales tax bills from last 10 years with interest to these unlucky people.

I was allways saying that cigarettes are bad for you. here is another example why