If you have visited the Android market within the last few days, you would have noticed that there has been crazy blow out sales on premium apps. This blow out sale is Google’s ways of celebrating the 10th billionth app download from the Android market. This has been going on since December 6th and will carry on until the 16th. There’s just one problem, people have been complaining that they have been charged one whole extra cent. No need to feel cheated. We have a perfectly good explanation for that.
For a long time now, online retailers have been getting avoiding taxes on their products because they were not bound to any one particular state. Now that online retailing has become more popular, more and more states are looking to cash in on the available money at hand. As a result, certain states have passed bills that place tax on goods sold online. So for some of you that live in certain states, you may experience some apps showing up on your credit card as 11 cents, but it’s not because they are trying to steal your cent: it’s just tax.
I’m pretty sure half of you question as to whether or not it even matters, but the other half may see this lack of transparency as a deal breaker when committing to future purchases. Just thought we would take the time out to explain it for you guys.
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