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Old 05-24-2021, 06:38 PM
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Most of my purchases thru Amazon Prime are already taxed. Very rarely do I shop locally when I do I comparison shop. Most items are at least 20% cheaper on Prime even with tax. One thing for sure be it locally or Prime it all originates from China or some other foreign country.
There is no such thing as perfect. I do buy from Amazon. Imagine you have a retail store.
A customer comes in and expects no demands attention from your paid for sales person
and then they turn around and buy from Amazon.

Buying on ebay for example. Free shipping from China? How can they do that? You can buy stuff for less than it would cost to ship it to China.

People selling stuff on Amazon. Due to quantity they buy Amazon one way or the other pays less for the goods. Shipping? Amazon pays far less for the same shipment than a small seller. The reason why you see products shipped by Amazon that is sold by other sellers.

Taxes? I used to sell expensive photographic equipment. At a sales meeting it was announced 80% was sold across state lines. Simple reason to avoid sales tax. A regular tactic was to take payment had the product to the customer and ship an empty box to an address in another state.

Credit cards. Most sales are on credit cards. The old days with it is a cash business and people with untaxed suitcase money are mostly over.

Where we are and how we got here.