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Originally Posted by TheMatrix
Amazon started charging tax when they put warehouses in California. Before that Amazon did not collect tax for California residents.
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So a California resident paid sales tax on a $79 Prime Membership last year then, right?
Which would make the change to $99 (+ tax) basically a, what?.... twenty-
one-and-a-half dollar increase as compared to a non-sales-tax-collecting state resident's twenty dollar increase?
Gotta compare apples to apples. The difference between a $79 to $99 (taxed) price hike and a $79 to $99 (untaxed) price hike is fairly negligible.
I understand perfectly if twenty dollars puts something out of someone's price range. Gotta do what you gotta do. But it certainly wasn't the buck-and-a-half more in sales tax that was the deal-breaker in that case.