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** Reply to note from dewar@GNAT.CS.NYU.EDU 06/27/95 11:26pm -0400 > "IBM should take things like this [sales tax] into account" > > more incomprensible IBM bashing, what the heck does it mean to take the > sales takx into account, it is nothing to do with IBM what states decide > to tack on to sales .... All I said was that because buying with an educational discount from IBM means paying sales tax, the difference in educational price and out-of-state mail-order retail price is only 2%-4%. Most mail order places discount more than that so for the most part there is no such thing as an educational "discount." IBM should take things like this into account when setting their prices. The "educational discount" is supposed to give folks in academia a financial break. The reality is that it doesn't. Either fix it so it does (sales tax and all), or get rid of it and refer people to good mail-order resellers. ____________________________________________________________________________ John H. Kim "A common mistake that people make when trying to design jokim@mit.edu something completely foolproof is to underestimate the jokim@uni.uiuc.edu ingenuity of complete fools." -- Douglas Adams