Zenith AD no sales tax
So I'm at an Orlando resort and there's a Zenith boutique here. I walk in cuz I wanted to see if they had that new titanium Chronomaster. They did not. I tried on the Aaron Rodgers and Shadow, cuz why not.
Guy was pretty pushy for a sale. I was not in the mood to spend 11K on a watch while on vacation (who does that??) but the interesting part of the dude's aggressiveness he told me, "if you don't have any more room in your luggage for this, you can buy it to ship and you wont have to pay sales tax, just pay for the watch."
What's that about? How can they get that off? Is dude gonna get in trouble? If I was in the market for a brand new Zenith I feel like that would be a serious deal maker. What kind of deals are ADs capable of? Is the price really the price?
Coming into the watch loving addiction world from sneaker collecting. Love a neat travel watch
He's just giving you a discount, whatever the cost of tax is...
He's just giving you a discount, whatever the cost of tax is...
Interesting. That’s a new model too. Makes me wonder about their margins
If you live in a different state on higher costing items you can get away with not paying sales tax. Back in the day I worked at a pool table store on the Indiana, Michigan state line. We were in Indiana so we didn't charge Michigan customers sales tax.
My guy does this in Tennessee because they have a 10% sales tax. It’s cheaper to mail it home to your house and then just pick it up the next day because my guy always does overnight shipping. I’ve done that with every watch I’ve bought in Tennessee so why not save 10%? You’re also supposed to file taxes in your home state at the end of the year, but most people don’t.
Unless they get the sale. Record the destination and ship from your home country/state
With out-of-state or country(I guess) sales tax the dealer can ship and not have sales tax.
What is best is if you can get the dealer to let you have the watch while on Vaca. then wrap it back up and ship, with the no sales tax plan intact. Win, win.
Be careful, it's not like it used to be. Ever since the WI vs Wayfair decision things are different. Depending on the company doing the shipping and the state it's going to they may still actually have to collect the sales tax.