Kobo Discounts: Coupon Codes + Discussion

[melmac]

Originally Posted by Wald07

romance40 of a select 10 books. Can`t find an affiliate free link to the books though.
I used it over and over again.

I found some links on the net but being Aussie some of the books must be Geo Locked as the list only brings up 4 titles for me they are

Southern Comfort By Fern Michaels
Unexpected Pleasures By Mary Wine
No Tan Lines By Kate Angell
The Summer of Us By Holly Chamberlin

romance40

[Anak]

Originally Posted by Wald07

Yes, I was referring to sales tax. Not sure why else mXb would not get the "full" discount.
Yes, sales tax is added to actual purchase price, therefore explaining why a 50% code only seems to net a 45% discount.

I guess mXb forgot to calculate (include) the sales tax on the full sales price and compared this with the discounted sales price with sales tax included.

[koland]

Originally Posted by Wald07

romance40 of a select 10 books. Can`t find an affiliate free link to the books though.
I used it over and over again.

http://www.kobobooks.com/lists/ARoma...nqUzow-1.html?

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

Just got this in my email, 30% off if somebody has used all the current ones.

Use promocode c1auto30
Expires: June 29, 2012

Thanks for posting, but that's one of the ones G0AT has in his list already that I've already used.

[Wald07]

Originally Posted by hwlester

Thanks for posting, but that's one of the ones G0AT has in his list already that I've already used.

Same here. And tried to re-use multiple times, without success, might I add...

[scrapking]

Originally Posted by Anak

This is the difference between a sales tax and value added tax. VAT is always included into the sales price and not added afterwards (sales tax).
I always get the "full" discount, here 50%. I live in Europe.

Assumption: VAT: 5%
$ 10 * (100/105) * 50% * (105/100) = $ 5
$ 9.52 (w/o VAT) * 50% discount = $ 4.76 * 1.05 (add VAT) = $ 5

You're drawing an inaccurate and non-existant distinction. VATs are sales taxes and, in fact, the Canadian GST/HST you're comparing against *is* a VAT sales tax.

Whether a sales tax is a VAT or not is how it's treated down the supply chain (before it gets to the consumer), not whether it's included in the price or not. VAT in Europe, Australia, and most of the world where they have a VAT, is generally included in the asking price. Canada's simply unusual in that when they implemented a VAT (the federal GST/HST) they chose to stay with the North American standard practice of adding tax on to the price when the customer pays (though there are exceptions, such as when buying gas for an automobile, where taxes are generally included in the price).

A non-VAT sales tax is added on and paid by everyone all the way up the line, no matter how many intermediaries there are. If a company buys something they pay tax, then they collect tax for the government when they sell something. Provincial Sales Taxes generally still work this way in Canada, as do sales taxes in most (all?) American jurisdictions with a sales tax.

In a VAT sales tax model, if a supplier buys something (or constituents parts that they make something from) they still pay sales tax on what they buy, and still collect sales tax on what they sell, but they now get to credit the tax they pay versus the tax they collect. They only have to remit to the government the difference between these two numbers; if they pay more tax than they collect (such as if they're bulking up on inventory during a slow sales period), the government will actually pay the company a tax rebate for that period! This way, in the VAT model, only the end user pays any sales tax at all. In the American model (and in the case of the Canadian PST still), everyone up the line pays sales tax with no rebates.

Whether taxes are included in the price, or added on to the price, is a matter of some interest to me. Every economist I've ever heard or read on the subject believes it's better to have taxes added on at the last minute when you purchase something (as done in North America) because it keeps consumers aware of how much tax they're really paying. Economists generally appreciate transparency, I suppose. Some consumers seem to really resent having tax added at the till, though I'm not sure why. I'd rather 5-13% be added at the till, than 15-25% included in the price, any day!

I note that sales taxes tend to be substantially lower in jurisdictions where they are added on than where they're included in the price, a fact that surprises me not at all.

And most (all?) European jurisdictions tax food in grocery stores. Seriously, Europe? (Groceries, along with several other things deemed essentials in life, are exempt from sales taxes in Canada.)

[scrapking]

Originally Posted by Wald07

Yes, I was referring to sales tax. Not sure why else mXb would not get the "full" discount.
Yes, sales tax is added to actual purchase price, therefore explaining why a 50% code only seems to net a 45% discount.

It's a 50% discount off of what you would have paid without the discount code, however. Most people in North America are used to roughing out the number after taxes are added when making purchases (I work in retail and see this all day long). Perhaps the OP was an exception to the rule, and fair enough if so, but to me and to a lot of other North Americans, the net price actually would seem approximately 50% off, even after the taxes were added.

[scrapking]

I was just looking at "The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor" (an agency book) and for the first time I noticed the text "This price is set by the publisher". That's convenient, when did Kobo start indicating whether a book's agency or not?

[taming]

There have been quite a few changes to the website over the past few weeks. This is one of them. This one happened a couple of weeks ago. FWIW, it seems that they do this sort of thing fairly frequently early on Saturday mornings (definitely early in BC, scrapking).

[camiller]

Originally Posted by scrapking

... In the American model (and in the case of the Canadian PST still), everyone up the line pays sales tax with no rebates.

NO, American businesses do not pay sales taxes on the raw materials used to produce their products. They do pay sales taxes on incidental stuff that is used by the business itself.

As an example if I produce widgets out of aluminum I do not pay my supplier sales tax for the aluminum stock, I do pay sales tax for the tissue paper in the bathroom at my factory.

[scrapking]

Originally Posted by camiller

NO, American businesses do not pay sales taxes on the raw materials used to produce their products. They do pay sales taxes on incidental stuff that is used by the business itself.

As an example if I produce widgets out of aluminum I do not pay my supplier sales tax for the aluminum stock, I do pay sales tax for the tissue paper in the bathroom at my factory.

Don't pay it, or pay it and have it rebated.

If they don't pay it, then it's simply an item that's exempt from tax. If they pay it and get an input tax credit against tax they've collexted, it's a VAT.

[Pax]

I just received my first coupon code!
It is for eBooks in English, 20%:
jun2720de

(Until 30th of July)

We could check, if the "de" (= deutsch, German) ending works with the other codes.

[camiller]

Originally Posted by scrapking

Don't pay it, or pay it and have it rebated.

If they don't pay it, then it's simply an item that's exempt from tax. If they pay it and get an input tax credit against tax they've collexted, it's a VAT.

Don't pay it. A business only pays sales tax on stuff that it is the end user of, office supplies etc. A business does not pay (neither directly or pay and have rebated) sales tax on stuff it then sells on to it's customers, whether it is finished goods or raw materials used to make finished goods. The end consumer is the only one who pays sales taxes.

So for example, lets say I work at a local homebrew shop (which I do part time ) when the store sells a 6.5 gallon glass carboy fermentor to a customer they (the customer) pay sales tax (collected by the business at the time of sale and remitted to the State). When the store bought the carboy from Crosby & Baker (a wholesaler in the homebrew industry) it did NOT pay ANY sales tax.

We do not (currently) have any sort of VAT (or VAT like) scheme in the US or for that matter any Federal sales tax at all. Sales taxes are typically State and sometimes City level taxes, allthough there are a couple states that have no sales tax at all.

Complicating things further, when the transaction crosses state lines there may be no tax at all, which really gets some states miffed (Google search California and Amazon tax). A state can only require a business that is within it's jurisdiction (or that has a presence within it's jurisdiction) to collect taxes from residents that are also within the States it's jurisdiction. Since Amazon does not operate any part of it's business within my home State, when I buy something from Amazon there is no sales tax collected. Technically I am supposed to fill out a form every year and pay taxes to the state myself for such purchases, but nobody ever does.

Edit: and apologies to G0AT and everyone else for taking this so far off topic.

[sportsmomma]

Has anyone been able to use this one lately?

RggiCA5091

Can't get it to work- or any variation of it!

[melmac]

Originally Posted by sportsmomma

Has anyone been able to use this one lately?

RggiCA5091

Can't get it to work- or any variation of it!

Try this one instead Regg50ca361 it worked for me last week