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Old 08-13-2009, 01:21 PM   #196
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
I did not mean to suggest Sony added sales tax--just that the size of the price drop was underwhelming.

$10 is still about twice what I think is reasonable for the average light-reading book.

- Ahi
But, think of it this way....

Let's take a hardcover at say $25.99. Let's drop 40% off for having a Borders rewards card. Then let's ad din a sales tax of 5%. We have a grand total of $16.37. Now let's go to Sony and pay $9.99 for the same book. You've just saved 6.38. And this is on a best case scenario for the hardback. Not always will you get 40% off and some hardbacks are more than $25.99. And if you bought the hardback where there was no sales tax, you'd still be saving $5.60.
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