Amazon.com Will Go Along with Internet Sales Tax After All

Discussion in 'News and Current Events' started by Reinier, Nov 13, 2011.

  1. Sirius
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    Generally if something is easily available locally, I'm less likely to buy it from Amazon anyway since the prices never have been that much different (though I am in WA, so that's probably why). However it turns out that there is a very, very large pool of stuff that is a right pain in the ass to buy locally, if you can do it at all. I don't buy all that many physical games or music albums these days, but when I do it's usually the sort that nobody has in stock in retail stores.
     
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    Yeah, they sent an email the same time they charged me. -.- Agreed, its stupid, but when you sign up for a sub, there's this little clause on the bottom that they're not responsible for overdrafts or taxes resulting from the service use. Loophole..
     
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    Well, service use is one thing but those back charges weren't initially part of the service charge. It was their oversight so I think they should have offered ways to pay it off.

    I'm curious if anyone challenged it and won.
     
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