EXT wrote:

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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Guy at counter will ask for tax license, and proof of being
in the trade.

Don't know about trade shops in your neck of the world, but here, in
this economy, they don't care about who you are as long as you have
money to pay for the items. Regarding the tax, here it is a VAT tax and
they collect it from everybody, in or out the trade.

Lets just say that the Contractors Association got a wind of that and 92
contractors blackballed the vendor. Who would you rather have as a
customer? 92 Contractors that each purchase from $50k to $500K and more
per year or some dipstick that purchases a $15 dollar item once every 10
years. Also many Vendors require Contractors to guarantee so much $$$$
business per year to cover price fluxuations and amount of on site
inventory. Can you imagine the ;awsuit if that contract was usurp by a
mook off the street. The on street customers are ours and not the
vendors. If you want the prices and availability..Put 8 years into
becoming a contractor. You forgot Contractors excise tax by the way.
You can't pay that to the state each month without a license and
you are now well into the quasi-felony stage. You chumps that squeak
when you walk are fun to poke with sharp sticks.