[quote=Diego Mamani][quote=flu]If you buy from online, the price is pretty clear prior to checkout though.[/quote]
[quote=spdrun]As far as hotels, if you pre-book online, you’re usually told the full price before they charge your credit card.[/quote]
I know. The hotel is just an example… I think it’s moronic that merchants (Costco included, not just hotels) don’t include the sales tax in their price tags, as they do in the rest of the world. So, in addition to all those annoying x.99 prices, we have to add 7.25% or 8.5%, or whatever the rate is in your locality.

I recently bought a six-pack of imported (hard to find) beer at a mini-market. They priced it so that after sales tax and CRV, the total came to exactly $10.00. Cool… I wished they would simply put “$10” on the shelf or price tag, so I don’t have to calculate the real price and carry unwanted pennies.[/quote]

But there’s a difference…

Food that isn’t served doesn’t have sales tax so what you see is what you get.

Everything else has sales tax…Ever tried to get a store clerk to compute sales tax in their head… Hell, ask a store clerk if they can compute 10% in their head, and most would fail at that..