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I just wished it was mandated to list prices to include all the taxes along with it. Whether it says $19.99 or $20 still isn't the actual price.
Recently had the worst of this. Was craving chocolate milk, find a nice size bottle of it for $3. Get to register. $6.63 total price because the glass bottle had over a $3 deposit.
It is, in the EU.
Hey everything on steam is the listed price if ya live in California. We dont have a digital sales tax, which is weird.
Right? Of all the states California is the one with no tax? Even Texas has that shit.
If I had to guess its probably because the stste was kinda in a weird place when digital products were first becoming a thing so it was never implemented, and now nobody cares enough to try.
Then let's stop talking about it 👀
Unfortunately taxes aren't uniform across a metro area or even within a city.
Yeah, and? That doesn't stop the individual stores from already calculating the taxes you're going to pay at that location and putting that price on the labels on their own shelves.
Because when they advertise, those advertisements cover a larger area.
Then leave the advertisement alone. They still print the prices on tags at each store location.
Let them send out flyers saying item A is $20 *plus local taxes but when you get to the store the pricetag on the shelf should say $23.50 or whatever the markup ends up being at that location.
The owners of the legislature don't want that, so it won't get done.
The government doesn't work for you, it works at the behest of those that have long since paid for the "elected" representatives.
Those people own companies that profit from all the misleading prices and adverts. They don't have any interest in changing that.
I'd rather advisements list the highest price for the area they cover than have false advertising with the prices at the store.