Originally Posted by
Rose Marie
My argument is that I have to pay for shipping so added tax will stop me from shopping online.
It is already cheaper to shop at stores except for web sites like Connecting Threads.
Keepsake Quilting will lose me for sure.
The stores don't have a choice, if they are required to collect sales tax, then they HAVE to charge sales tax, or else go to jail or pay huge fines when then they get found out.
As to shipping costs... if you have drive 20 miles to get to a brick-and-mortar store, and you have a vehicle that gets 20 miles to the gallon, then you will burn through 2 gallons of gas to get to the store and back. Where I live, that would be over $7. Which might well cover those shipping costs!
As to Keepsake Quilting... they send out those nice catalogs, which must cost them a pretty penny. I would guess that as long as they do that, they're not going to be able to sell at rock-bottom prices.
We can't have it all... at least, not at the same time... :-)