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Payment
Options |
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At this time, eCOST.com accepts the following payment methods:
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VISA
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MasterCard
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Discover
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American Express
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Diner's Club
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Federal IMPAC
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Visa/MasterCard DebitCard
- Google Checkout
For Borderfree Buyers, we offer the following payment options when you click on
the “Borderfree Checkout” button through our partner, Borderfree:
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Visa
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American Express
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Mastercard
We regret that we cannot process orders requesting COD, company check, personal
check, money order or other payment methods not listed above. We do not charge
your credit card until your order is shipped. All orders are subject to
verification and approval by the card-issuing bank.
Please be sure to provide your exact billing address and telephone number when
you set up your account. Incorrect information may cause a delay in processing
your order. There is no surcharge for using your credit card to make purchases
with eCOST.com.
Finally, we accept international credit cards for the above payment options for
shipments destined within the 50 United States.
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Payment
Currency |
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All prices on the eCOST.com site are quoted in U.S. currency and all orders must
be transacted in the same.
For our Borderfree Buyers, the U.S. prices will be converted into Canadian
dollars when you click on the “Borderfree Checkout” button, and we will also
deliver to you a guaranteed total price, including all duties, taxes and
international shipping & handling costs.
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Sales Tax |
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Most states require that taxes be collected on sales transactions between
residents and merchants physically located in that state.
We have physical points of presence, or nexus, in Three states: California,
Texas and Tennessee. When we ship orders to residents of either state, we are
required by law to collect the applicable state sales taxes and pay them to the
taxation authority in the respective state.
Occasionally, we may also be required to collect sales taxes for other states,
under certain conditions. Any time that we have a legal obligation to collect
state sales taxes, we add the appropriate charges to the order and inform you
of such.
Contrary to what you may have heard, there is no moratorium or ban on collecting
sales taxes for orders placed over the Internet. The Internet Tax Freedom Act
of October 21, 1998 only restricts the states from applying multiple or
discriminatory taxes on Internet commerce. In other words, it prevents the
states from passing new types of Internet-specific sales taxes, but it does not
exempt Internet transactions from previously enacted state sales tax laws. The
Internet Tax Freedom Act provides this protection through October 21, 2001.
If you or your organization have been approved for tax-exempt status in your
state, please contact an eCOST.com Customer Service Specialist.
For our Borderfree Buyers, all duties and taxes owing (depending on which
province you live in) will be calculated when you click on the “Borderfree
Checkout” button.
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Tax-Exempt Status |
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If your firm holds a valid sales tax exemption permit for California, Texas or
Tennessee, please proceed as follows:
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Download our Tax-Exempt
form. (This requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader).
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Place your order online. Your initial order will show us charging you sales
tax.
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Fax the form back to (310)658-5052 with your order number, a copy of your
tax-exempt permit and a contact name and phone number.
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Our credit card processing group will zero out the tax on your initial order
and set up your account for tax-exempt status.
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You will not be charged sales tax on future orders using this account.
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The billing address on your account must match the address on the tax-exempt
certificate
eCOST.com Federal Tax ID Number: 33-0843777
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Invoices |
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After you place an order by pressing "Submit", the screen will clear
and you will be left with an invoice copy on your screen. Use your browser’s
print function and an invoice copy will print on your local printer.
If later on you need a duplicate copy of your invoice, please call a Customer
Service Representative at Toll Free 1-877-888-2678.
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