Wholesale Tool Website

[BIG DOG]

Hey Big Dog,

Are you registered as a business in the state of Illinois? If not, does the state of Illinois know that you are collecting sales tax on their behalf? I'm sure they would like their money since you are collecting it.

On a $63 item your website charged $7.90 in taxes. This is more than 12%. Also your shipping is outrageous. $11.95 to ship a one pound item from New York to Illinois is overpriced. I can get a better shipping price at the UPS store. Now if you are including your time and packaging materials costs that is fine but you should change the shipping line to shipping and handling. Makes you look like you are not increasing your profit though inflated shipping costs.

I am sorry, I thought I answered this question to you in an email. First of all as I stated in several responses the website is NOT finished and individual states sales tax rates are not set. I am working on other aspects of the website and set individual state tax rates as people from various states order and ask about tax rates. I will be sure to set Illinois tax rate immediately. I do not charge handling fee and I am not licensed in the state of Illinois nor do I have to be to collect taxes in that state. Uncle Sam wants his money. It's my job to collect it. For your benefit as well as anyone else reading this post, I will repost what I sent you earlier and rest assured all states tax rates will be set appropriately.

Read carefully when the headlines say, "Internet Tax Ban Renewed!" What the bill relates to is any new or "discriminatory" taxes on access, not sales taxes on purchases! States will not let Congress take away their Constitutional right to collect revenues through whatever forms of taxation they deem necessary. A dozen states, in fact, are entering a pilot program to start collecting taxes on remote sales now that the technology exists for them to do so without "undue burden" on remote vendors.

Alabama
4% 8.1%
Kentucky
6%
Ohio
5.5% 6.75%
Alaska
-- 1.45%
Louisiana
4% 8.7%
Oklahoma
4.5% 8.05%
Arizona
5.6% 7.15%
Maine
5%
Oregon
--
Arkansas
6% 8.15%
Maryland
6%
Pennsylvania
6% 6.25%
California
6.25% 8%
Massachusetts
5%
Puerto Rico
5.5%
Colorado
2.9% 6.35%
Michigan
6%
Rhode Island
7%
Connecticut
6%
Minnesota
6.5% 6.75%
South Carolina
6% 6.9%
Delaware
--
Mississippi
7%
South Dakota
4% 5.45%
Dist. of Columbia
5.75%
Missouri
4.225% 6.95%
Tennessee
7% 9.4%
Florida
6% 6.7%
Montana
--
Texas
6.25% 8%
Georgia
4% 6.95%
Nebraska
5.5% 6%
Utah
4.65% 6.55%
Guam
4%
Nevada
6.5% 7.5%
Vermont
6% 6.05%
Hawaii
4% 4.4%
New Hampshire
--
Virginia
4% 5%
Idaho
6% 6.05%
New Jersey
7% 6.95%
Virgin Islands
4%
Illinois
6.25% 7.7%
New Mexico
5% 6.35%
Washington
6.5% 8.5%
Indiana
6%
New York
4% 8.25%
West Virginia
6%
Iowa
5% 6.75%
North Carolina
4.25% 6.8%
Wisconsin
5% 5.4%
Kansas
5.3% 6.9%
North Dakota
5% 5.65%
Wyoming
4% 5.4%

 

[BIG DOG]

Ok, I'll be nice for a minute and give my advice. I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt and look on your site for some pliers I wanted. Within 20 seconds, I closed your site and went looking elsewhere. Why?

1. Rather than just tabbing the lists over, you need a space between each category on the sidebar so the main categories can be seen easily. Like this:

...Accessories, Oil, Boots
...Specialty Air Tool

Cleaning Supplies
...Mops, Brooms, Rubbish Pails

General Shop Supplies
...Bulk Small Parts Assortments

#2. (main reason I didn't even look) Your categories ****, and the front page is too jumbled. I would much prefer something on the front page like:

Hand tools:

...Sockets

...Wrenches

...Pliers

...Hammers

Then you click on the category (sockets for example) and get:

1/4" drive

3/8" drive

1/2" drive

Swivel

Crowfeet

Impact

Then if you click 1/4" drive you can choose metric/standard, deep/short, etc.

You have SEVEN categories for pliers all in a different spot on the front page, that drives me nuts. There are socket categories all over, wrench categories all over, it needs to be organized. It looks like somebody barfed alphabet soup onto a website.

Edit: I used dots since the board doesn't recognize tabs or spaces.

Thanks so much for the feedback. I am aware of the problem with the navigation. There is so much to do with this site and I really wasn't ready to go public just yet. I did write this response earlier to another post:

Stuey, an EXCELLENT SUGGESTION! I have viewed other sites and I’m trying to avoid all the clutter and unnecessary B.S. I see they place on their home pages. I did consider setting up on AMAZON as well, I wasn’t really ready to go public yet, but thanks to my brother’s “help” I was throw into the arena prematurely. Once I am finished setting up the navigation buttons (a lot harder than you think) I’ll set up that thread. Thanks for the feedback.

I will be sure to let you know when the website is complete. Other than the navigation, did you have any other problems finding what you wanted and what exactly do you mean by the front page is too jumbled? Are you just referring to the navigation buttons?
Thanks so much for your feedback. Hope to see you as a customer in the future.

 

[nissan_crawler]

Yes, I was referring to the navigation buttons. My eyes go cross-eyed after the tenth line down or so (literally it's hard for me to read and keep from getting messed up). If it was cleaned up into main categories with sub categories after you click on the main category, it would be much much cleaner and easy to read. As said before, place all like tools in one spot. Wrenches, sockets, pliers, air tools, storage, supplies, etc., then have sub-categories.

 

[Tbonekilla]

I am sorry, I thought I answered this question to you in an email. First of all as I stated in several responses the website is NOT finished and individual states sales tax rates are not set. I am working on other aspects of the website and set individual state tax rates as people from various states order and ask about tax rates. I will be sure to set Illinois tax rate immediately. I do not charge handling fee and I am not licensed in the state of Illinois nor do I have to be to collect taxes in that state. Uncle Sam wants his money. It's my job to collect it. For your benefit as well as anyone else reading this post, I will repost what I sent you earlier and rest assured all states tax rates will be set appropriately.

Read carefully when the headlines say, "Internet Tax Ban Renewed!" What the bill relates to is any new or "discriminatory" taxes on access, not sales taxes on purchases! States will not let Congress take away their Constitutional right to collect revenues through whatever forms of taxation they deem necessary. A dozen states, in fact, are entering a pilot program to start collecting taxes on remote sales now that the technology exists for them to do so without "undue burden" on remote vendors.

Alabama
4% 8.1%
Kentucky
6%
Ohio
5.5% 6.75%
Alaska
-- 1.45%
Louisiana
4% 8.7%
Oklahoma
4.5% 8.05%
Arizona
5.6% 7.15%
Maine
5%
Oregon
--
Arkansas
6% 8.15%
Maryland
6%
Pennsylvania
6% 6.25%
California
6.25% 8%
Massachusetts
5%
Puerto Rico
5.5%
Colorado
2.9% 6.35%
Michigan
6%
Rhode Island
7%
Connecticut
6%
Minnesota
6.5% 6.75%
South Carolina
6% 6.9%
Delaware
--
Mississippi
7%
South Dakota
4% 5.45%
Dist. of Columbia
5.75%
Missouri
4.225% 6.95%
Tennessee
7% 9.4%
Florida
6% 6.7%
Montana
--
Texas
6.25% 8%
Georgia
4% 6.95%
Nebraska
5.5% 6%
Utah
4.65% 6.55%
Guam
4%
Nevada
6.5% 7.5%
Vermont
6% 6.05%
Hawaii
4% 4.4%
New Hampshire
--
Virginia
4% 5%
Idaho
6% 6.05%
New Jersey
7% 6.95%
Virgin Islands
4%
Illinois
6.25% 7.7%
New Mexico
5% 6.35%
Washington
6.5% 8.5%
Indiana
6%
New York
4% 8.25%
West Virginia
6%
Iowa
5% 6.75%
North Carolina
4.25% 6.8%
Wisconsin
5% 5.4%
Kansas
5.3% 6.9%
North Dakota
5% 5.65%
Wyoming
4% 5.4%

You understand there is no a Federal sales tax? So how can collect tax for "Uncle Sam?" Also are you sending the tax money to representative states that you are collecting for? You would need a tax ID number for all these states also. Do you have these? Or are you pocketing this money? Are you sending other states tax money to New York? I don't want my taxes going there. Next time you start a retail business do so research. You better get a lawyer.

 

[oxycodone]

Oh, wow... you have so much to learn, dog.

I hope for the sake of your family you had the sense to form an LLC.

 

[BIG DOG]

Been learnin' alot in 11 months and I am in fact incorporated.
BTW, for those of you that had a problem with unusually high tax rates on my site, I sat here all day and night and finally set the tax rates for each individual state. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am now working on the navigation buttons on the side bar...should be working by morning. I'll sit here til it's done!

 

[JB740i]

Dog, reread post 44.

 

[BIG DOG]

i re-read my post I see where the confusion is.
On the store front I am using, individual tax rates were set.
I had to go in and manually change the setting to delete taxing individual states. I am incorporated, I do have a tax ID number, and I do charge tax on items shipped to New York ONLY!
So don't worry, your tax dollars are not funding the homeless in New York.

 

[Stuey]

On the store front I am using, individual tax rates were set.
I had to go in and manually change the setting to delete taxing individual states.

Are you aware that sales tax rates vary by according to city/county? There are going to be discrepencies if you charge NYC sales tax for a customer in say, Broome County.