" Amazon handled the deal TERRIBLY. As someone working at a not-for-profit institution (i.e. we don't pay sales tax), heading a department where people place book and video orders all day long, many of them with Amazon, this was a nightmare for us. Amazon knew this was coming months ahead, and even sent out notices to customers like us -- but then when the change happened, they didn't take care of it -- and their system kept trying to charge us sales tax. The college will not pay sales tax, so we were caught in the middle between the credit card companies which had paid the tax we weren't supposed to be charged and the college which will not pay tax it should never have been charged for materials faculty wanted for their courses -- what a mess! It took a month and a half for them to fix their system -- a month and a half AFTER the change which they had long before known was coming.

Major pain. "

" new york state is getting rediculous, they tax and tax and tax and tax, but they don't slow spending, so we constantly remain in deficit... "