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[Rant] NewEgg.com[/Rant]

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cliftonite

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Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Originally posted by: skriefal
If NewEgg has a presence in New Jersey, then they have to charge you sales tax. It doesn't matter where the items ship from. There's nothing NewEgg can do about this.

 

dabuddha

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Originally posted by: sward666
I think NewEgg is renting all the old "PhotoMats" in states around the nation, just so they can have a presence in the state to charge the sales tax.
I'm sure that's it, cause like, the profit margin on sales tax is like, really high.

lol that's what I was going to say.

wnied: You do realize that they don't keep the sales tax for themselves, right?