urgent help needed! buying macbook pro on JFK

I don't think they sell Macs in JFK.

 

not in retail, you can't

 

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)?

 

Can't you just claim the taxes back when you leave the country?

 

even if you ship overnight?

 

http://www.tekserve.com/

buy from here and have it shipped to you

 

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.

 

they have no tax or something? (what other state has no sale tax?)

 

That is a horrible drive. Worth $200 not to have to do it. Especially with the tolls and the Jersey Turnpike...yuck.

 

Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon

 

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?

 

Yeah, that's correct - but it's a very long drive to save a relatively minor amount of money.

 

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...

 

Yeah the Salem, NH store is an easy drive from Boston.

 

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.

 

There is no way to do that in the US.

 

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.

 

sweet, exactly what i have in mind!

what other of these neat tricks do you know?

 

and the driving through New Jersey... yuck

 

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

 

Nashua is 15 minutes closer than Salem.