HarperCollins .99 cents sale on Amazon, B&N, maybe more?

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by hwlester

Yeah, depends on where you buy it from. Kobo doesn't charge sales tax, but Sony and B&N do. Amazon sometimes charges tax on ebooks, but I haven't figured out the rules for when they charge and when they don't. I bought 15 at 99¢ and I debated buying from Sony so I could use a cart and make one purchase, but the tax would have been $1.20 which is enough to buy another book, so I made 15 individual purchases through Kobo...

Kobo always charges sales tax on any books by the big six...at least they do for me. (I'm in the U.S.) It doesn't matter where I buy them, any books from HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette & Random House. I always get charge sales tax.

If I buy a book from Random House I get charge a Sales and County tax. I first noticed this when buying from Kobo. I think this is why Random House sales tax is always higher than the other five.

For awhile last year Kobo charge me sales and county tax on every purchase. It finally stopped last fall and now only get charge sales tax on the Big Six books.

[Fluribus]

Originally Posted by hwlester

Yeah, depends on where you buy it from. Kobo doesn't charge sales tax, but Sony and B&N do. Amazon sometimes charges tax on ebooks, but I haven't figured out the rules for when they charge and when they don't. I bought 15 at 99¢ and I debated buying from Sony so I could use a cart and make one purchase, but the tax would have been $1.20 which is enough to buy another book, so I made 15 individual purchases through Kobo...

Sales tax? What are sales tax? Little sharp dealies that a store uses to stick their sales up on a bulletin board?

[Athens80]

Originally Posted by HarryT

We're saying the same thing, I believe?

99c is "ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc "

US $0.99 is 99¢.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Fluribus

I checked my Amazon purchases, and I was charged 99 cents. I'm pretty steamed. The OP owes me money. We see that two moderators are aware of the problem, yet the OP hasn't been banned. This makes MR culpable as well. Anyone else open to joining a class action suit?

I also noticed that only volumes 1 and 3 of the C. S. Lewis letters were on sale. Volume 2 was $14.44.

Mitford13, you've ruined my faith in humanity.

Don

[MikeB1972]

Originally Posted by Athens80

99c is "ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc "

US $0.99 is 99¢.

I thought 99c was 29,679,453,342 m/s (In a vacuum, of course, and ignoring all those pesky relativity problems)

[koland]

Originally Posted by hwlester

Yeah, depends on where you buy it from. Kobo doesn't charge sales tax, but Sony and B&N do. Amazon sometimes charges tax on ebooks, but I haven't figured out the rules for when they charge and when they don't. I bought 15 at 99¢ and I debated buying from Sony so I could use a cart and make one purchase, but the tax would have been $1.20 which is enough to buy another book, so I made 15 individual purchases through Kobo...

It's a combination of the state you live in and the states that the seller is in.

Kobo does try (or did, 'til I "moved") to charge me tax, regardless of the publisher.

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by koland

It's a combination of the state you live in and the states that the seller is in.

Kobo does try (or did, 'til I "moved") to charge me tax, regardless of the publisher.

I'm in Alabama and I've never been charged sales tax from Kobo. When I've purchased Kindle books with the $1 vouchers, I was charged a $1, but on some occasions, I've purchased a 99 cent book and paid $1.07 or $1.08. but I've never paid sales tax on physical purchases from Amazon. Strange.

[taming]

Originally Posted by koland

It's a combination of the state you live in and the states that the seller is in.

Kobo does try (or did, 'til I "moved") to charge me tax, regardless of the publisher.

Canadians should 'move" to Alberta as there is no PST here. With how high taxes can be in places like Ontario, it can save some $.

[cromag]

Amazon has a "physical presence" in NJ, so they charge me sales tax.

[Rh3a]

Originally Posted by hwlester

Amazon sometimes charges tax on ebooks, but I haven't figured out the rules for when they charge and when they don't....

Here you go http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...1815570&sr=1-1

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by Rh3a

Here you go http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...1815570&sr=1-1

Aha! So it's by publisher as someone suggested based on Kobo. Thanks... Now I know.