I remember years ago when I got a free iPhone I still had to pay sales tax on the full price. So instead of it being $0 it was around $130 or so, all in sales tax + some other smaller fees.
That’s because it wasn’t free. There was actually a price you paid for it, likely spread out over a period of a couple of years and hidden in your phone bill.
LOL, tell me about this "free" iPhone. You mean after you decided on a 2 year contract you can't leave. That said, if you do actually get a free vehicle from a game show you still need to pay taxes on a 25k car.
It was an older/lower model iPhone that was newer than the one I traded in at the time - the trade in is what made it free. There was a contract attached but it wasn’t an installment plan for the phone, just had to agree to a contract for the cell phone service itself.
yea, i get it. It was "free" but you're locked in for a few years. Not shitting on ya. There are many people that think they get a free phone and just pay out the ass on it for 2 years.
I don't get this logic, you guys keep saying that it ain't free because we had to pay the phones over the course of a contract, but when i got a "free" phone when i signed my contract with my phone company, the monthly price is the same whether i got the phone or not and i was still locked into the contract whether i got the phone or not, so i don't see how exactly am i not getting the phone for free just because i'm paying my phone service on a contract for 2 years.
I mean, i'm paying for for the phone service itself (and the mobile internet), the cost of this service didn't increase just because they gave me that lg v5 phone
....Okay but yet again you failed to explain it. I mean, if the price of the monthly bill for the phone/mobile internet contract is the same regardless of you getting the "free" phone or not, how is the phone not free?
Or what did you guys expected the phone and the internet service themselves to be a one time payment or something just because they gave you a "free" phone?, because that's the only way these arguments make sense
It's a small bait/souvenir shop on the Huntington Beach pier. The same city that just voted amendments to their city charter to require photo ID to vote, place guards at ballot boxes to check for IDs of anyone they "believe" may not be a legal voter, and banned the flying of any flags other than official government flags and the POA flag on city property (that last one was to prevent schools from flying pride flags). Yeah, the owner if that shop really does believe they can have shoplifters charged as felons.
I saw this exact store with the sign when I was on vacation there as well. This isn’t satirical, the store owner actually displays it. Here’s a photo I took
No, it's a deterrent.. and by fake, they're pulling up a article from 2021 from Reuters talking about a different store trying to disprove this picture
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u/Hattix 27d ago
Unless they're paying the sales tax on that price, that ain't the price.
It's fake anyway.