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urgent help needed! buying macbook pro on JFK

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chuwi

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Oct 10, 2006
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hi,

i'm planning a travel to new york and i would like to buy a macbook pro. it's possible to buy it on JFK airport tax free? i don't want to pay 200$ for taxes :(

thx!!!!
 
argh!

so, it's impossible to buy a macbook in NY free of taxes?
 
chuwi said:
hi,

i'm planning a travel to new york and i would like to buy a macbook pro. it's possible to buy it on JFK airport tax free? i don't want to pay 200$ for taxes :(

thx!!!!
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are you staying in ny? can you buy from amazon or macmall and have it shipped to your office or hotel room or friend's (or wherever you're staying or working)?
 
i will be in NY only 2,5 days so amazon or macwall it's impossible :(
 
amac4me said:
If you have the time, you can drive down to the state of Delaware and purchase your Mac from the Apple Store located in Christiana Mall.

http://www.apple.com/retail/christianamall/

I looked it up in Google Maps and it's 142 miles (about 2 hours 48 mins) away from the airport.
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they have no tax or something? (what other state has no sale tax?)
 
amac4me said:
If you have the time, you can drive down to the state of Delaware and purchase your Mac from the Apple Store located in Christiana Mall.

http://www.apple.com/retail/christianamall/

I looked it up in Google Maps and it's 142 miles (about 2 hours 48 mins) away from the airport.
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That is a horrible drive. Worth $200 not to have to do it. Especially with the tolls and the Jersey Turnpike...yuck.
 
ChickenSwartz said:
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon
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nice... say if i go to one of the apple store in one of those state (i'm looking at New Hampshire), do I just pay the, say, 2,499, and that's it? aka no other tax either?
 
bearbo said:
nice... say if i go to one of the apple store in one of those state (i'm looking at New Hampshire), do I just pay the, say, 2,499, and that's it? aka no other tax either?
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Yeah, that's correct - but it's a very long drive to save a relatively minor amount of money.
 
jsw said:
Yeah, that's correct - but it's a very long drive to save a relatively minor amount of money.
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LOL, i'm not about to drive to there from missouri if that's what you meant

sometimes in the future, i kinda want to live in boston for a while, then it'd only be a 40 minutes drive, according to google map...
 
bearbo said:
LOL, i'm not about to drive to there from missouri if that's what you meant

sometimes in the future, i kinda want to live in boston for a while, then it'd only be a 40 minutes drive, according to google map...
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Yeah the Salem, NH store is an easy drive from Boston.
 
ChickenSwartz said:
That is a horrible drive. Worth $200 not to have to do it. Especially with the tolls and the Jersey Turnpike...yuck.
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Exactly. I drive donw to DE/MD/VA/NC from NY metro quite often by car. The drive from JFK to DE would be long and tedius. The traffic from JFK to NJ Turnpike and traffic jam after the long bridge as you enter Delaware would be a deal breaker as well.
 
skubish said:
There is no way to do that in the US.
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Louisiana offers refunds for sales tax paid by international tourists. They get the retail store to fill out a slip and at the airport when they are leaving they get the tax back.
 
ChickenSwartz said:
Yeah the Salem, NH store is an easy drive from Boston.
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sweet, exactly what i have in mind!

ChickenSwartz said:
Louisiana offers refunds for sales tax paid by international tourists. They get the retail store to fill out a slip and at the airport when they are leaving they get the tax back.
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what other of these neat tricks do you know? :)
 
once my parents and I visited easy coast and drove from nigeria fall (sp.) south, til around DC... lets just say it's not the most fun place to drive... but i thought that was just holiday

oh yeah, and the toll, that was something new for me
 
thank you very much for all the ideas you gave me :)

i was talking with a friend this morning (he was in NY last week) and he told me that he bought a 4Gb ipod nano in the 5th avenue apple store for only 199$!!!!.... so i think that he don't pay taxes... could it be possible????????
 
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