As debate continues over the alleged impact of GST on online sales in Australia, eStore is offering a so-called “GST-free weekend” on January 15 and 16 to anyone using the code GSTFREE. Of course, it’s a 10% discount rather than an actual GST exclusion, but it serves to remind us that price competition is a possibility regardless of location. [eStore]
AshleyB
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:01 AMJust needed to point out that the link to estore is missing the ‘.’ in ‘.au’
JessT
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:21 AMLink’s wrong, should be: http://www.estore.com.au
mbryant
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:26 AMIt should really be a 9.0909…% sale if it’s a GST-free sale.
Burnie
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:01 PMAgreed, they should be discounting by 11% in order for it to be equiv to no GST.
Annieo
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:41 PMI think you mean one-eleventh, not 11%. One-eleventh is 9.0909%.
And go estore! This is the perfect reaction to the greedy, anti-competitive Harvey and co.
Teaman
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:45 PMHuh?! Nah mbryant has it right. They should take off 9.09…% or in other words, discounted price is 90.909…% of original price. So if the price is $110 then the code would take it down to 110 x .909… = $100.
eStore.com.au
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 5:11 PMHi Guys,
Just confirming that the discount coupon is for 9.0909%, which would be the GST equivalent.
Have a great weekend guys!
The eStore.com.au Team