Smoking and the internet

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Nilsen10
A carton 10x20 smokes costs 90.8$ here

thats just over 9$ a pack

$9 here is a week of moderate living, without beer or other alcohol. Or maybe chaeapest beer will fit. My weekly spendings are about $40 total including everything, but I can cut it by 50% easily.

[Nilsen]

i think i spend 9$ a day on JUST food (unless im gonna eat something fancy or at a resturant) then you have all the other things.

maybe i could move to russia and kkep mu paycheck. Id live like a king

i make just over 40000$ a year at todays usd vs. norwegian kr. and that is about average i think here.

atm 1$ = 6.8258 NOK.

[Habu]

Originally posted by loser
Habu where do you buy cigarettes in Canada for 5 bucks a pack?

I pay $10.40 a pack.

Funny thing is. In Saskatchewan, you actually pay 100% (yes you read that right) "sin" tax on your deck of cigarettes. That plus provincial and federal sales tax.

I better get damned good health care service when i get lung cancer.

I am in Ontario, they lowered down the price a few years back to stop the smuggleing but it has crept back up. But $10.40 is just absolutely crazy. I remember when beer was a dollar a bottle and I thought that was outragous (how I long for those days) now I can see the day when cigarettes will be a dollar each.

[loser]

Oh okay, yeah i knew they were cheap in ontario because of smuggling and people selling off-reserve.

Guess that is why Saskatchewan has the brown plastic on the packs to indentify them and remind us of where we are taking it.

[Mini D]

Originally posted by Habu
How can they know if you get a UPS delivery? They can't.

It's all about sticking it to the man.

If there's a tax on them in Washington, the company has to report the sale to the state in order to mail their wares into the state.  Many people purchasing cigarettes through this company didn't realize it and were quite pissed when the state of Washington sent out the tax notice regarding it.

MiniD

[rpm]

If ya want CHEAP smokes THIS PLACE has 'em. Read the disclaimer, they were manufactured for sale outside the US. You wil notice a HUGE difference in them. The premium tobacco that they use in US smokes is not what is in these. That's why American cigarettes are cheaper overseas, you are buying the brand name only, not the real deal.

[lasersailor184]

I may be mistaken, but I believe that they banned sales taxes on items online except for buying them from the state you are currently in.



I.E. If the store is located in PA (i'm in PA too), I'd have to pay the 6% sales tax on it as well as the other taxes.  However, anyone buying from another state won't have to pay it.

[Habu]

I talked to the owner of that business today to see what the situation is regarding taxes.

He told me that they do not ship to California or New York because those states will try to reclaim taxes from out of state sales. However he has never been asked to turn over any documents to any state so your odds of getting hit with a bill for unpaid taxes is very low.

He has never had a customer who has been billed by a state directly for taxes as he has never provided any sales information to any state.

[Manedew]

So if the sale takes place on a server ... where is the server....  in the US ... I'd like to see them get taxes from say .. Canada or-or ... like Turkey ..

fools .. if they press US websites, all that will happen is they will move elsewhere ....

call it 'Brain Drain' 'Economic Drain' whatever .. the country was founded to get away from handsomehunk policys ... now we love these policys

What happens when they all move over seas, they have to go after the buying citizen?  You better make sure the guy you bought your cigs from paid HIS taxes, HA!  wouldn't surpise me a bit.