Should there be a law that rebates must be instant?

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[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]
I still cannot comprehend why this isn’t the case in the US.

I’ve heard some weak apologist bullshit about all the local county/city/state taxes, but there’s absolutely no reason why this data can’t be entered into one of the store’s POS computers, allowing it to print price tags with the full and complete price on them (inclusive of all taxes etc), regardless of whether the store is located in Boston, Honululu, or at the South Pole.
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Did Antarctica become a state? :slight_smile: I thought we were the only country that didn’t stake a claim on that continent.

I wouldn’t say it’s weak apologist bullshit. What if you run a store with locations in different cities and counties? For example, tax in the City of Los Angeles is different from the County tax. I think we pay a half-cent or full-cent more on the dollar in the City, but I’m not sure. What if your customers are taxed differently depending on who they are? For instance, at UCLA, visitors have to pay tax in the dining facilities, while members of the campus do not. Even knowing what county you’re in, to the computer isn’t necessarily straightforward. Some ZIP codes span county and even state boundaries.

Certainly what you suggest can be done, but it’s not as simple as you think, and may entail more effort than a small business can muster. Besides, I think most of us here like to know what part of the total goes to the tax, and what part goes to the merchant.

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Just today I received a card saying that a rebate I had applied for could not be processed because instead of sending “Proof of Purchase Tab 1” from the box, I had sent “Proof of Purchase Tab 2.”

Both inner flaps on the box were POP tabs, and I, like millions of [del]suckers[/del]… customers, no doubt, saw “Proof of Purchase” on one of them, and tore it off without noticing the number or the instructions that specified that it had to be POP 1.

Screwed once again!

EXCEPT that (for no apparent reason) I had kept the other POP tab lying on my desk for all these months, and had only just a couple days ago thought, “Why am I keeping this thing?” and tossed it into the recycle bag. So after a couple of minutes sorting through the bag, I found it and popped it in an envelope, to stick it to the man!!! For once my strange mix of obsessiveness and untidiness pays off.