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In article <jcaD9nIGt.EI3@netcom.com>, James Armstrong <jca@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>As for purchasing, I'd look around SF's Chinatown at some of the
>electronics stores.  Once you find what you want, get a price, then
>call 47th Street Photo and see if they beat it.  I don't think 47th
>is charging CA sales tax yet, so it may be cheaper even with shipping.

	This isn't reallyb related, but I thought I'd interject that 47th
Street Photo in NYC can't charge CA sales tax for the simple reason that 
they aren't in CA. You can only charge sales tax within the same state,
so people who do mail order and whatnot can't charge it for interstate
shipping. Case in point: I worked at FAO Schwarz (a toy store in NYC),
where one can have an item shipped directly to them from the store. If
an item was to be shipped to a customer, we had to sit down and figure out
which sales tax to charge. If shipped within NYC, it was 8.25% (NYC tax),
elsewhere within NY State, only 7% could be charged. If it was any other
state, NO sales tax could be charged. FAO has many stores in many states,
true, but the item would be shipped fromthe NYC store to the customer's
target, which simplified things greatly. 
	Another example is that some mail order places will say that there's
sales tax if you're in some list of states but not elsewhere, This 
generally means that they have warehouses or some such in those states, and
as your item would be shipped from within your state, sales tax would then
have to be levied.
	This is your Consitution at work. 8-)