Holy TRU.COM Screw Job!

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:32 am

wow. look at that shipping and sales tax...

Item: 4255770
Description: GI Joe Troop Builder Snake Eye vs. Red Ninja
Quantity: 1 @ $24.99
Shipping Method: Standard Ground

Item: 4255771
Description: GI Joe Troop Builder Cobra Night Watch
Quantity: 1 @ $24.99
Shipping Method: Standard Ground

Sub-Total: $49.98
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Shipping: $9.94
Sales Tax: $10.04
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Order Total: $69.96

TRU.com is now officially off my preferred vender list.
f***ers.

Dosser · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:39 am

How the heck is the sales tax that high? Is it possible they made a mistake calculating it? If so, I'd call customer service and complain. Who knows, maybe they'll give you a discount code or something to use next time for your trouble.

THE Mike™ · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:40 am

I'm going to assume they taxed you on the TOTAL w/ Shipping.

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Even if they did charge sales tax on the shipping, that's still close to 17% sales tax. I don't know of any state that's that high!

Dosser · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:45 am

Sure, Mike™, but even with shipping, that over 15% sales tax. Here in Tennessee, we have almost 10% sales tax. Its considered one of the higher state sales taxes, since we don't have a state income tax. +15% sounds like a mistake.

THE Mike™ · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:06 am

It's double the price on the site. Somewhere it must of added another one to your order.
Contact them and find out. The site could be automatically double billing you - unless someone tells them, they won't know.

Lance Sputnik · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am **Location:** Pants

joemichaels70 wrote:

TRU.com is now officially off my preferred vender list.

I'm still on that list though, right bro?

;-)

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:43 am

Lance Sputnik wrote:

joemichaels70 wrote:

TRU.com is now officially off my preferred vender list.

I'm still on that list though, right bro?

;-)

well, you're on a list... let's just leave it at that.

;-)

J_Man · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:12 pm

It's a good chance too they're going to pull that "our inventory made a mistake and that item is not available". I hate Toys R Us' website. I never get the items I try to get.

Mysterious Stranger · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:34 pm

They are both showing "Temporarily Unavailable Online At This Time" now. I was going to check and see if I got the same sales tax error you did. Yeah that sales tax is seriously f'd up. Its almost like they doubled the sales tax or charged you sales tax for both the state its shipping from AND the state its going to.

raptor · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:57 pm

Suddenly, the idea that Hasbro Toy Shop will soon be shipping to Canada is somewhat less appealing.

Also, unless I am mistaken, unless you're in the same state as the location where the TRU website is located, you shouldn't pay any sales tax at all.

- R

J_Man · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:06 pm

I get charged tax by them, K-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and any other major online store. Amazon, HasbroToyShop, and other like that are the only ones I don't get charged tax. It's one of the things that keeps me from ordering from those sites unless it's just too hard to find the item or it's cheap enough that all the extra costs don't matter so much.

Tim Elf · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:23 pm

raptor wrote:

Also, unless I am mistaken, unless you're in the same state as the location where the TRU website is located, you shouldn't pay any sales tax at all.

It all got messed up last year when Congress refused to extend the internet sales tax freedom act (or whatever the name of it was). Now states can tax stuff if they feel like it and no one can stop them. A lot of online vendors randomly charge tax "just in case."

It's all a big mess.

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:48 pm

Tim Elf wrote:

[.... A lot of online vendors randomly charge tax "just in case."

It's all a big mess.

...Time for a Boston TRU-Party!

No More Kings!

iViva La Revolucion!

//mods, does fomenting a rebellion break the 'no politics' rule?

kennywr22 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:56 pm

I go the same screw job too. Exactly the same price as yours. I live in south florida. I'm really thinking of returning these when i get them and demand my money back. This is just an absurd amount. So i guess as they fill the rest of my order i'll keep getting charge this crap each time. No way.ARGHHH!

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