<p>Battle is over. Greedy bastards win; Consumers lose. </p>
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<p>Time for Plan B. Continue to Prime buy from AZ but ship to a less confiscatory state and pay for private shipment to California. Rather do that give satisfaction to the local morons.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Well I’ve been paying the tax anyway. I usually get several reminders and the occasional threat, from the State Board of Equlization. Hope the money ends up somewhere I want it.</p>
<p>BTW; the article mentions “same day delivery”. Huh? They are fast, but SAME DAY? Must be one day.</p>
<p>If your state has a sales tax, it also has a use tax, which legally requires you to pay the tax if it wasn’t collected by the retailer.</p>
<p>Oh, you haven’t been paying your use tax? Congratulations, you are a tax cheat.</p>
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<p>Defeats the purpose… of Amazon Prime. I pay WA 10%, but I’d rather have my stuff in 1-2 days than save $5 and wait 1-2 weeks.</p>
<p>Order from somewhere that does not have a physical presence in CA, but then you are back against the wall described by NRE. :)</p>
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<p>Now that Amazon has given up the sales tax fight, their next big plan is to build giant warehouses near large cities, and use their own fleet of trucks for same-day delivery, cutting UPS out of the loop.</p>
<p>It’s going to be awesome…</p>
<p>Tyco’s Dennis Kowalski faced the same problem, albeit on the other coast. He had empty boxes shipped to New Hampshire, a state with no sales tax. Problem solved!</p>
<p>(I guess I should mention that he got 12 years for this “solution.”)</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Wow! Are there details somewhere? How can they keep everything, everywhere?</p>
<p>A few weeks ago I ordered a solar pump from the marketplace, wasn’t as expected, and I couldn’t resolve it with the seller after a few days. At about 2AM, I decide to take it up with Amazon, and begin the process. A few moments later, I check my email for confirmation, and it says, “your case is closed because it’s been resolved. The money is in your account”. My D says they might be with the Mafia.</p>
<p>I have been shopping Amazon since they sent shoppers birthday presents, and now I am also a MyHabit junkie.</p>
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<p>I am afraid that, when it comes to be a use tax non-reporter (and thus cheat) I have plenty of company.</p>
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<p>For an extra fee, of course. Amazon has plans to get into groceries in much a bigger way.</p>
<p>I don’t see it the way Xiggi does. </p>
<p>It was an unfair advantage online retailers had over brick and mortar stores.
I am glad that battle is over. </p>
<p>I like Amazon. Interesting that Amazon is going to do same store day delivery. That is not good for UPS. I agree with notrichenough. I think Amazon is the biggest customer of UPS. I am not sure.</p>
<p>Amazon sells a lot of crap that it will not be able to stock in its warehouses. UPS will be fine.</p>
<p>Nordstrom has been doing “same day to you door from our store for $15”'delivery for a while.</p>
<p>^ So just what is in stock at your store. How far away is the Nordies?</p>
<p>Im blessed to have 5 all within 30-min, including their Store 1, the downtown flagship.</p>
<p>Amazon isn’t using UPS for some shipments, they are using ONTRAC.
My recent experience indicates it is pretty crappy.
( three days after my order was supposed to be recieved- it was still listed as " on it’s way to shipper". I contacted both Amazon & Ontrac, and they placed a duplicate order and supposedly canceled the previous one. I recieved the new order on Monday, and the original order today)
[Amazon.com:</a> Customer Discussions: Amazon Changed 2nd Day Prime Shipping Carriers - Ontrac - What do you think?](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Changed-Prime-Shipping-Carriers/forum/Fx1FXZJET22FVJX/Tx3XIGM42X7L5W/1?asin=B000QFOD8E]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Changed-Prime-Shipping-Carriers/forum/Fx1FXZJET22FVJX/Tx3XIGM42X7L5W/1?asin=B000QFOD8E)</p>
<p>I generally advise people to not admit their criminal activities on public forums. Especially if you live in New Jersey.</p>
<p>I called one of the three major phone carriers to ask about an iPhone and he told me that they’d ship it to the store if I lived in MA - so yes, even retailers attached to very large corporations do the tax cheat thing.</p>
<p>If you want to legally avoid sales taxes, there’s plenty of homes for sale in NH.</p>
<p>I used to waffle between free delivery and two-day shipping with Amazon. Now I just always go with free and I get my stuff within two days. They put in a warehouse in Northborough, MA and it appears to be a piece of cake getting it here.</p>
<p>Amazon uses USPS a lot.</p>
<p>Do you mean free or ONE day? And my son got his two day delivery textbook by fedex (smartpost) yesterday!</p>
<p>Free is 5-7 business days. Two-days they charge you for. I have had stuff arrive one day I believe but it’s usually two if I pick free delivery.</p>
<p>I buy a lot of stuff online, and it’s NOT to avoid the Use Tax. I buy bags for my Sears vacuum cleaner … because Sears doesn’t stock them anymore. I buy spare TV remotes … because they’re a third of what Best Buy charges to special order them. I buy appliance parts … because the online stores have the best expertise. I buy repair parts for the Audi … because the online parts cost half what our local retail outlets charge. And I buy tires from Tire Rack (which I pay sales tax on because Tire Rack has a warehouse just up the street) … because I can get a wider variety of tires, and I get next-day delivery.</p>
<p>Amazon collecting sales tax (or not collecting it) affects nothing above.</p>