Amazon is fucking awesome. I would absolutely say go for it. Make sure they do indeed offer free shipping on it though, sometimes you think you're buying direct from Amazon, but you're buying from a vendor, and the Super Saving shipping in unavailable.

Ever since Massachusetts raised its sales tax from 5% to 6.25% last month, I have made as many purchases as I can through Amazon instead of real stores. I will almost certainly never buy a video game in a physical store again. Amazon also tends to be very competitively prices. We got a new router last month, and all our old wireless adapters worked poorly with it. My brother went to best buy got one for $84 plus tax. I got the same one off Amazon for $65, no tax, free shipping. This probably won't matter with the PS3, but Amazon also watches prices, and if some drops in price within a certain amount of time, you get a credit. I got a $3 credit on Punch-Out from them. I had preordered it for $49.99, and two weeks later they were selling it at $46.99, and they comped me.

So yeah, definitely go with Amazon.

Speaking of the sales tax hike, the Herald had an awesome front page story the other day. They got a picture of one of the legislators who voted to raise the sales tax (and put an increased tax on alcohol) buying liquor at a New Hampshire Liquor Store.

Meh.

Now if there was a Capcom fighting pack with Puzzle Fighter, Street Fighter II, Vampire Savior, and Street Fighter 3, now that would be badass.

Yeah, their customer service is awesome. They had a deal on the Naked Gun Trilogy where it was like $8 for all three movies or something ridiculous like that. I ordered it, and waited and waited, but it never came. After about two and a half weeks, I started to get pissed. I contacted customer service and complained; they apologized sent it to me overnight.

We have a federal income tax. You can either pay it yearly, or have it withheld from your paycheck. There is no federal sales tax. Additionally, some cities and counties and have additional sales taxes. For example, NYC has a higher sales tax than the rest of New York. This is very rare, though.

SoldierHawk wrote:

I'll throw in another vouch for Amazon, and also a good word for their third party vendors, with corollary--I only buy from very high rated sellers, and I've only bought books. Not that I *wouldn't* buy electronics or whatever from a third party vendor if the price was right, I just haven't had occasion to.

The store that Dr. Jeebus works at sells stuff on Amazon, and he told me that because it's not entirely clear to some people that you're buying from a third party vendor, Amazon hold its third party vendors to very high standards. The way it works this:

1. With anything sold through Amazon, Amazon is responsible from the billing
2. Amazon will not bill the buyer until the item has shipped
3. In order to prove to Amazon that you have indeed shipped the item, you must provide them with a tracking number from the USPS

So you can't fuck someone over and not send the item. I'm not sure what happens with third party vendors in terms of quality control though. I'll ask.