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Jack

On 4/11/2018 1:44 PM, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:37:12 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
On 2018-04-11 10:17 AM, wrote:
I bought a pair of $80 speakers through Amazon two weeks ago. No state sales tax paid by me. And free shipping.

You mean that AMZ paid the shipping and it was hidden in the cost.

Yes. I am well aware there ain't nothing free in this world. Maybe everyone should instead say "free shipping" is included in price of item. And maybe make it illegal for Amazon or anyone else to print "free shipping" on any website. I favor this. We should all petition every federal and state official to make it ILLEGAL to put "free shipping" on anything. I am sure the various truth in advertising (???) laws would allow us to ban "free shipping" on everything. It is the biggest lie there is.

"Free shipping" has come to mean there are no additional charges in the
sale price. Amazon often has different prices for the same item, like
the free shipping price can be higher than the non-free shipping price.
If you are cheap, like me, you must look carefully at Amazon prices,
checking and comparing prices/shipping/taxes. They are a sneaky bunch.

There is a particular cookie my wife likes and she was having trouble
finding it so she looked on Amazon. She found the exact same box for
$10 that the store sells for $3. If you are not careful, Amazon can and
will screw you big time on pricing.

I once bought a cheap lathe drill chuck on Amazon, when it came, it came
in a box from Harbor Freight, including the HF part number. I could
have bought the exact same item at HF for a good bit less. The guy that
got the money from Amazon probably ordered the item from HF and had it
mailed right to my address? Smooth entrepreneur there.
I believe the words are "caveat emptor"
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Jack
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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