I tend to use the rate based off taxable income. I'm not entirely sure which purchases I have to keep track off.

Merica has an overly complicated tax system, and unfair because the rich get to avoid their taxes and the moderately well off get sent to jail for not paying.

Merica has an overly complicated tax system, and unfair because the rich get to avoid their taxes and the moderately well off get sent to jail for not paying.

Without a doubt, deep discounts from online stores hurt your FLGS.

That is once again debatable.

It's like the F2P market in MMO's. Even the free players provide a value to the game, by giving other people someone to play with. If the only people playing where ones who payed, many if not most MMO's wouldn't have a population large enough to keep people playing.

A store is better off with 10 people playing, each having spent $50, rather than 5 who each spent $100, because with more players you have more games being played, the more games being played, the more customers you can attract.

If I walk into a LGS and there's no one there to play with, then that store may not only lose any purchase I would made that day, they may lose all future ones because there's never anyone there to play with.

There's nothing sacrosanct about MSRP, and if a store can't make it by charging that amount they need to consider what they need to do, to either lower their price, and/or increase the value customers get, which makes them willing to pay that price.

This thread, I think, is also exposing the cultural bias of the tabletop game community, in that, if you don't support / play at a store, or even a tournament, you aren't a 'serious' gamer. Just because I haven't played in a tournament and will never go into a local game store (even though there are several around), my 30+ fleet might argue that I'm indeed serious about the game, just not in the same way. Also - the 4 or 5 pepople I've introduced to the game, that also aren't LGS types, but who have then introduced their friends....there are multiple ways to build a community - and that community doesn't even need to interact with the other little communities to be 'serious' about the game and have fun. The kind of attitudes that I see about 'seriousness' and being beholden or obligated to support a particular business model are just another reason why I chose not to generally be around that particular community.

I think you should just call the Washington DOR and get some clarification for us.

I found the number - it's 1-800-647-7706.

Explain that you are having a discussion on the Internet with a bunch of buffoons who think the law requires you to pay a use tax on the stuff you've bought online, and you want to definitively prove them wrong. Make sure to give them your name and address first.

They said that they'd get right on it.

This thread, I think, is also exposing the cultural bias of the tabletop game community, in that, if you don't support / play at a store, or even a tournament, you aren't a 'serious' gamer. Just because I haven't played in a tournament and will never go into a local game store (even though there are several around), my 30+ fleet might argue that I'm indeed serious about the game, just not in the same way. Also - the 4 or 5 pepople I've introduced to the game, that also aren't LGS types, but who have then introduced their friends....there are multiple ways to build a community - and that community doesn't even need to interact with the other little communities to be 'serious' about the game and have fun. The kind of attitudes that I see about 'seriousness' and being beholden or obligated to support a particular business model are just another reason why I chose not to generally be around that particular community.

well i think you are missing out, some of my best friends I have met at my local game stores