Don’t know about that. All my purchases were after that time period, and all have been solid. 
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I used to have a dedicated support tech who helped me with advice and an occasional issue. He disappeared and was never replaced. Their annual in-house trade shows are still huge. I just felt a little less personal interest.
I was a consultant for a long time and more than once had a client company get royally dismantled after being acquired by a private equity firm who knew absolutely NOTHING about the business of the company they’d just acquired. Those clients included medical instruments, aerospace, mattresses, and pacemaker batteries.
Maybe I’m just overly sensitive because of that.
This I also agree with. States look at a sale from a retail source as being a taxable event and they also believe buyers should report and play sales tax on a purchase from a private source. Few if any do the latter though.
Sales tax was typically paid on the original purchase but maybe not to the state the next buyer lives in so they want their share on the used sale. They’re not gonna waive this but maybe sales of used gear should be taxed a a lesser percentage.
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Yeah, I wasn’t trying to argue he merit of the tax law above; I understand it is a bummer that the online sites are adding sales tax on used stuff.
But at the same time I cannot fault Reverb for obeying with he law.
IIRC the law was passed originally to help protect brick and mortar stores from online vendors having an unfair pricing advantage due to the sales tax difference. And since 2018, it appears states can require taxing sales even if the vendor does not have a physical presence in the state:
Looks like this started from South Dakota.
So, tl;dr, if you want to fix Reverb, elect better lawmakers 
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Shoot…taxing us is how lawmakers get paid and you expect them to do away with a tax once they’ve imposed it? Dream on my brother, dream on.
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Oh they will do away with many taxes… just not for us in the 99%.
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My brain last night: Make a savings throw against GAS. Modifiers?
Me: Well shit, I noticed that I still have 2 more days to return that Donner bass to Amazon for a full refund. -4 to my roll. And… I roll a 2. Shit!
My brain: Ahahahaha! Got you.
And so I walk over to the Chuck Levin’s Music Center this morning, just to look around! Is what I told my wife. 30 minutes later I’m walking out with this Yamaha TRBX304 under my arm.
“Hm. Upgrades.” -Neo
The Donner (a Fender knockoff pictured up a bit in the thread) is already boxed up and at UPS, heading back to Amazon. It was fine for my first few weeks, when I didn’t really know if I’d be into this or not. But I’ve been doing the course and practicing most every day. And the return window was closing fast…
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Nice choice with the TRBX!
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Texas laws must be somewhat different then CO laws then because if a dealer is required to collect CO sales tax they collect it. The only exception I know of is the state of Oregon. A dealer shipping from there doesn’t charge or collects sales tax.
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Yes, Oregon is one of the few states with no state sales tax.
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I don’t know about that. What I do know is that sales tax is required if a company selling goods has some sort of presence in Texas.
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Nice knobs.
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Very nice!
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Unfortunately I have +12 on collecting so saving throws against GAS are chancey at best for me.
Good to see you could turn it into a loot drop.
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That’s what’s different. The seller need not have a physical presence here in order to avoid collecting sales tax. I pay sales tax on every purchase.
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Yes this varies by state (and was the outcome of the 2018 court finding I posted above).
tl;dr, it’s not really Reverb’s fault.
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Yeah, it’s not very clear language even for a big box brick and mortar too, I traded a bass at Sam Ash, on the trade in no tax added but the used item traded for was taxed, the manager was confused too so without skipping a beat gave a 10% off to offset the tax and that’s that. 
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Like a lot of laws based on trade protectionism, it was a mix of good intentions and unintended consequences.
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The crazy dudes and ladies at Thomann have embedded a Stingray in a Gretsch at bargain basement Benton prices
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