Inconsistency in the purchasing of XBox Live Points?

[chuckywang]

When you buy points in the clamshell packaging, you pay tax on that purchase.

When you buy points that need to be activated at the register, you don't pay tax.

Anybody know why this is?

 

[blurredvision]

No idea. I ordered a couple of 12+1 Live sub cards from Amazon last week, and while I usually get charged tax through Amazon (two of their distribution centers are in my state), they didn't charge tax on those two sub cards. Those came in blister packaging, though.

I'm wondering what the difference in this stuff is myself.

 

[UpgradeFailure]

I think it's because in some states, you have to pay tax on them no matter what. So since they are already activated, they have to have the tax-set price because they don't know what state they'll end up in. On the other hand, the ones that are activated at the register they know where they are being bought so no tax

That's my guess at least.

 

[JoPh]

i buy on amazon. no tax for me.

 

[mugs]

The store is treating the ones they have to activate as a gift card, and the ones they don't have to activate as a product. The store is messing it up; or rather, they have a deficiency in their POS systems and they just don't care.