OT:Costco-What I won’t buy there

[scaredyclassic]

then they hand you a fresh unwrapped sample.

[moneymaker]

[quote=svelte]Do they sell condoms? I’ll buy condoms there[/quote]
Better off going to the local 99cent store where you can get 12 for $1.

[LarryTheRenter]

Got a sweet X-mas tree for $45……8 foot beauty…can you beat that anywhere?????

[The Truth]

[quote=moneymaker]I
Won’t buy anymore Vizio TV’s anywhere

Anybody have any other won’t buy’s there?[/quote]

Why no Vizio TVs?

[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.

[Coronita]

[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..

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=flu][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..[/quote]

I have met engineers that can’t move the decimal place!

CE

[UCGal]

We buy the organic strawberry preserves… what’s the issue with it? My kids like it.

We also buy the Kirkland brand dog food… so does our vet….

I love Costco… between costco, trader joes, and sprouts…. I rarely go to vons anymore.

[Reality]

[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=flu][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..[/quote]

I have met engineers that can’t move the decimal place!

CE[/quote]

Reminds me of a situation at work where someone asked me for help and the answer was to move the decimal left two places, so I told her to divide by 100. I guess she didn’t like the answer and asked someone else who gave her something better, to “multiply by .01”.

[Coronita]

[quote]
I have met engineers that can’t move the decimal place!

CE[/quote]

[quote]
Reminds me of a situation at work where someone asked me for help and the answer was to move the decimal left two places, so I told her to divide by 100. I guess she didn’t like the answer and asked someone else who gave her something better, to “multiply by .01”.[/quote]

I’m sorry both of you work with some pretty dumb people…

[moneymaker]

[quote=UCGal]We buy the organic strawberry preserves… what’s the issue with it? My kids like it.[/quote]

I just don’t like the taste of it.

[quote=UCGal]We also buy the Kirkland brand dog food… so does our vet….[/quote]

Our dogs won’t eat it.

[moneymaker]

[quote=The Truth][quote=moneymaker]I
Won’t buy anymore Vizio TV’s anywhere

Anybody have any other won’t buy’s there?[/quote]

Why no Vizio TVs?[/quote]

Nothing wrong with the picture, just have had some bad luck with them lately. Two have gone bad on me in the past year. The first one was of course out of warranty the second one I will be taking back/calling for warranty fix.

[Coronita]

You think the Seattle Costco will start sampling well you know…. MJ…?

[Coronita]

[quote=moneymaker][quote=svelte]Do they sell condoms? I’ll buy condoms there[/quote]
Better off going to the local 99cent store where you can get 12 for $1.[/quote]

Make sure they aren’t expired and aren’t sold like this

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu][quote]
I have met engineers that can’t move the decimal place!

CE[/quote]

[quote]
Reminds me of a situation at work where someone asked me for help and the answer was to move the decimal left two places, so I told her to divide by 100. I guess she didn’t like the answer and asked someone else who gave her something better, to “multiply by .01”.[/quote]

I’m sorry both of you work with some pretty dumb people…[/quote]

I’ve had cow-workers who didn’t understand the meaning of rounding numbers. I gave them a table with a TOTAL at the bottom and a footnote explaining that the rows may not exactly add to the total because of rounding. They insisted there was an error and wanted to manually change some numbers. These two had advanced degrees, one of them an MD.

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