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- From: ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Best price for Canon Elan?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.175107.22234@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:51:07 GMT
- References: <1ebt0mINN2sl@antigone.usc.edu> <1992Nov20.162139.9515@bony1.bony.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.162139.9515@bony1.bony.com>, jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:
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- >
- > >Note that 47th street photo charge 5% of order for shipping. This isn't
- >
- >
- > For those people who think that shipping and handling charges in New
- > York City are unreasonable, you may consider the option of coming into
- > town and buying in the store -- and paying 8.25% NY sales tax.
- >
- > Assuming that you are not otherwise victimised by tolls, parking fees,
- > parking tickets, broken car windows/stolen radios, stolen wallets,
- > stolen cameras in shiny pink 47th St. Photo shopping bags that mark
- > the tourist shopper as an easy sucker, or maybe just a plain old knife
- > in the belly, the local sales tax alone should convince people that
- > mail order has it's benefits, even if it has it's drawbacks, as well.
-
- No-one will deny the advantages of NOT shopping in NYC, but the point was
- that to charge 5% or total order (and write it in the smallest print
- available) seems to be a practice designed to (effectively) inflate prices.
- A fairer practice is to charge some handling fee + shipping based on weight
- (as do B&H for example). ALL the NYC stores tag on a little profit in their
- shipping charges - some more than others. Either way I will agree that it is
- MUCH better than actually shopping in NYC though.
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