The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to
Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture.

"AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core"
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657

bbbl67 wrote:

>The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
>again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to
>Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture.
>
>"AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core"
>http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657

A new PC for me in August. 8)

chrisv wrote:
> bbbl67 wrote:
>
>> The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
>> again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to
>> Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture.
>>
>> "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core"
>> http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657
>
> A new PC for me in August. 8)
>


I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Yousuf Khan wrote:
> chrisv wrote:
>> bbbl67 wrote:
>>
>>> The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
>>> again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to
>>> Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture.
>>>
>>> "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core"
>>> http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657
>>
>> A new PC for me in August. 8)
>>
>
>
> I was thinking exactly the same thing.

And anther thing going for those of us in Canada is that we have a sales
tax (which we call the GST) cut coming online just about that time of
year too. It's going to be an extra special time to buy computers for us.

Yousuf Khan

--
There is no failure, only delayed success

"chrisv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> bbbl67 wrote:
>
>>The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
>>again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to
>>Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture.
>>
>>"AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core"
>>http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657
>
> A new PC for me in August. 8)
>

Too bad for me my computer needs exactly the thing not affected by the price
war... Memory... Specifically DDR400 (Got 1.5GB in signle channel, I want a
full 2GB for development and vista beta and DC of course). In fact, DDRI
prices are more likely to increase with AM2. ::sigh::

Carlo

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:50:57 -0400, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> chrisv wrote:
>>> bbbl67 wrote:
>>>
>>>> The price war is getting underway now, it's great to be a PC consumer
>>>> again, if not a shareholder in these companies. It's in response to
>>>> Intel's imminent release of the Core 2 architecture.
>>>>
>>>> "AMD Strikes Back: 50% price cut to dual core"
>>>> http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=613657
>>>
>>> A new PC for me in August. 8)
>>>
>>
>>
>> I was thinking exactly the same thing.
>
>And anther thing going for those of us in Canada is that we have a sales
>tax (which we call the GST) cut coming online just about that time of
>year too. It's going to be an extra special time to buy computers for us.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US
states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax
holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without
paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is
paid to the state and local governments and not the national
government.

The rules for what's taxable vary by state as well. For example, in
some states, food items aren't taxable.

I worked in retail automation for many years and calculating sales tax
is a nightmare. There are options for counties and cities to collect
sales tax as well, and they can use different calculations and
different (often weird) rounding for each of those. It's a mess to
calculate and some states allow the tax to be based on where you live
in the state (provided it's the same state), not where the store is
located. Mostly that's ignored unless you get a big ticket item and
live in a place within the state that has a much lower tax rate. And
this is just if you physically go to the store.

If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state
AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not
be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you
ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state,
even though the location in your state never had anything to do with
the order. In the case where they aren't charged sales tax for
something mail/phone/internet ordered from another state, the consumer
is technically supposed to fill out a form and pay sales tax on it
directly to their own state, which rarely happens in reality. Of
course, if you physically visit a store in another state to order or
pickup the item, then you pay the other states tax for that store
location. Sales tax is a mess here in the US.

-- David

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
davidbemail-(E-Mail Removed)am says...

<snip>

> I worked in retail automation for many years and calculating sales tax
> is a nightmare. There are options for counties and cities to collect
> sales tax as well, and they can use different calculations and
> different (often weird) rounding for each of those. It's a mess to
> calculate and some states allow the tax to be based on where you live
> in the state (provided it's the same state), not where the store is
> located. Mostly that's ignored unless you get a big ticket item and
> live in a place within the state that has a much lower tax rate. And
> this is just if you physically go to the store.

Yes, and some people have an address in one town but reside in
another with a different tax rate.

> If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state
> AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not
> be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you
> ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state,
> even though the location in your state never had anything to do with
> the order. In the case where they aren't charged sales tax for
> something mail/phone/internet ordered from another state, the consumer
> is technically supposed to fill out a form and pay sales tax on it
> directly to their own state, which rarely happens in reality. Of
> course, if you physically visit a store in another state to order or
> pickup the item, then you pay the other states tax for that store
> location. Sales tax is a mess here in the US.

Mess indeed, but one I hope is never "fixed".

--
Keith

David Ball wrote:
> Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US
> states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax
> holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without
> paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is
> paid to the state and local governments and not the national
> government.

No, it's a permanent sales tax cut, part of the new government's
election promise. If they make it through another year, then they
promised another 1% tax cut next year too.

> If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state
> AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not
> be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you
> ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state,
> even though the location in your state never had anything to do with
> the order. In the case where they aren't charged sales tax for
> something mail/phone/internet ordered from another state, the consumer
> is technically supposed to fill out a form and pay sales tax on it
> directly to their own state, which rarely happens in reality. Of
> course, if you physically visit a store in another state to order or
> pickup the item, then you pay the other states tax for that store
> location. Sales tax is a mess here in the US.

Oh yeah, that too, but there's another tax loophole that can be
exploited: buy a computer on an Indian reservation. All sales taxes are
exempt. However, I noticed that these stores just jack up the price of
their stuff an equal amount to make better margins in place of paying
the government.

Yousuf Khan

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:49:23 -0400, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>David Ball wrote:
>> Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US
>> states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax
>> holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without
>> paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is
>> paid to the state and local governments and not the national
>> government.
>
>No, it's a permanent sales tax cut, part of the new government's
>election promise. If they make it through another year, then they
>promised another 1% tax cut next year too.

Do they still call it "sales tax" in Canada? If not it sounds suspiciously
like your govt. is girding itself up to go VAT eventually. I know we have
Federal Congressmen who start drooling at the mouth whenever the subject
VAT comes up... dreams of "barrels of pork".:-) While VAT seems simple and
fair at a glance, it is in fact one of the biggest of iniquities ever
conjured up by govt.

>> If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state
>> AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not
>> be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you
>> ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state,
>> even though the location in your state never had anything to do with
>> the order.

I dunno about other states but the way it works in NJ, the vendor only has
to have done business one time to get caught for sales tax; e.g., Gateway
had never had a presence in NJ but following an exhibit at a conference,
all subsequent sales of Gateway products to NJ customers were subject to
sales tax.

--
Rgds, George Macdonald

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, fammacd=!
SPAM^(E-Mail Removed) says...
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:49:23 -0400, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >David Ball wrote:
> >> Is that cut just for a few days? We have something similar in many US
> >> states, where they specify a few days in August to be a sales tax
> >> holiday so the "back to school" crowd can get their stuff without
> >> paying sales tax. It varies state by state though, since sales tax is
> >> paid to the state and local governments and not the national
> >> government.
> >
> >No, it's a permanent sales tax cut, part of the new government's
> >election promise. If they make it through another year, then they
> >promised another 1% tax cut next year too.
>
> Do they still call it "sales tax" in Canada? If not it sounds suspiciously
> like your govt. is girding itself up to go VAT eventually. I know we have
> Federal Congressmen who start drooling at the mouth whenever the subject
> VAT comes up... dreams of "barrels of pork".:-) While VAT seems simple and
> fair at a glance, it is in fact one of the biggest of iniquities ever
> conjured up by govt.

How so? The People's Republic of Vermont wanted to put in a "gross
receipts tax" to replace the property tax. Talk about inequitable!

> >> If you order through mail/phone/internet from a store in another state
> >> AND have it delivered to an address in your state, then you might not
> >> be charged sales tax at all, depending on whether the merchant you
> >> ordered from has a physical business presence anywhere in your state,
> >> even though the location in your state never had anything to do with
> >> the order.
>
> I dunno about other states but the way it works in NJ, the vendor only has
> to have done business one time to get caught for sales tax; e.g., Gateway
> had never had a presence in NJ but following an exhibit at a conference,
> all subsequent sales of Gateway products to NJ customers were subject to
> sales tax.

No worry about that here. No business would ever come here on
purpose.

--
Keith