<p>Perry,<br>
Not to get persnickety, but your int statement is not completely true. Even if a company has no offices in a state that you are ordering from, if *your* state collects USE tax, then you *are* liable for paying taxes on out of state purchases (IL is one of those). Now in theory, most everyone ignores it, but it is on the books. Used to be a half page return that you filled with your state inc tax return.</p>
<p>Eric K9LGE</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 30, 2012 8:21 AM, "Perry Chamberlain" <<a href="mailto:canoeman@qnet.com">canoeman@qnet.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Respectfully<br>
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Perry Chamberlain<br>
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On May 30, 2012, at 5:00 AM, <a href="mailto:aprssig-request@tapr.org">aprssig-request@tapr.org</a> wrote:<br>
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> Don't forget, you've still got to pay for him to ship the stuff from the<br>
> EU to the US, and that is not cheap to do these days, what with all the<br>
> security paranoia... Especially, if the goods did not "originate" from<br>
> the US in the first place.<br>
><br>
> It's many times more expensive to ship *INTO* the US, than for you to<br>
> ship stuff out of your county. FYI.<br>
><br>
> In any case, I still don't consider those costs shown above, as "low<br>
> cost". Plus, it's (yet) another layer of complexity, therefore another<br>
> posible source of possible errors, ready to take down what you want back<br>
> into the noise.<br>
><br>
> Whatever happened to the KISS principle?<br>
><br>
> 73.<br>
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I don't know where you get the idea it is expensive to ship here.<br>
I order equipment from china, Canada, hong kong, and the EU, very cheap prices, and NO DUTY, no taxes.<br>
It is often cheaper to buy a radio in the USA from china, or the UK, then it is to buy it here.<br>
When I order boards from out of the country, I pay no tax, no duty.<br>
And paying $120.00 for a dstar board to tack on to an older analog radio, and voila, you have an instant simplex dstar repeater, is very cheap indeed, as opposed to an Icom $3,000.00 repeater.<br>
So I am not sure about what you are talking about.<br>
When Americans buy from outside their state, they pay no sales tax.<br>
Unless the company has an office in that state.<br>
A lot of hams play the shipping game.<br>
Look local, buy out of state.<br>
I tend to buy commercial ham radios from my local ham stores, to support local businesses. But I will shop anywhere, for an item I can't find here.<br>
When we see a dutchstar or German dstar board for 120.00, that plus $10.00 shipping from overseas, that is what we pay, no more.<br>
I on the other hand don't ship out of the USA, because of other countries high import duties.<br>
My dongle, dvap 880h, and ID31a were all bought locally. That sounds pretty simple to me!<br>
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