The fees were the $34 in combined taxes and shipping. Seemed ridiculously high for $199 order.
I'm not buying the tax law argument. I just went on to Amazon.com to do a little experiment to see if they charge me tax. Multiple people, including yourself, are telling there's no way around this sales tax issue and yet when I put a $199 audio dac/amp from iFi into my amazon cart and go through checkout there's
no sales tax collected. This is how it's been my entire life with internet purchases and I want it to stay that way. Heck, I don't even pay shipping:
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Part 2: So this isn't making sense. You're saying Schiit is required to collect out-of-state taxes but Amazon, on Audio Advisor's behalf isn't? So did another experiment. I went to
www.audioadvisor.com and added the same iFi product to my cart and went through checkout. Guess what?
No sales tax and no shipping fee... and this is for a $199 audio product no less:
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Part 3: So we got a real mystery here. Remembering that Schiit has in the past sold their products through Amazon's marketplace I moseyed on back to
www.amazon.com and searched for products from Schiit and added a Magni 3 Hershey that is listed as "sold and shipped from Schiit". I assume that's you guys and not an imposter. I added the Magni to the cart and went through the checkout process and lo and behold, there was no sales tax collected!
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CONCLUSION: Schiit says they have no choice but to collect taxes yet when they sell through Amazon Marketplace the law is waived? Hmm that doesn't make sense to me. Furthermore it doesn't make sense that other audio companies such as Audio Advisor, which not that it's relevant is based in Michigan, don't collect sales tax from out of state customers yet Schiit does?
What am I not getting here people? Is up still up? Is down still down? Am I living in a magical parallel universe where I'm a lucky son of a gun that doesn't have to pay sales tax on internet purchases?