Unless you live in a state that doesn't have sales tax, you'll be taxed on pretty much everything you buy whether online or in a brick and mortar store.
Not my experience at all, see below.
Were you expecting to not pay taxes?
I was surprised because I pay tax on less than 10% of the things I buy online, and those 10% are almost all places that have an operation in my state (including Amazon). I order items from all over the US, to the tune of several thousand a month between biz and personal and I find that very few companies apply tax if they do not operate in my state. Maybe it's because I order more online, from more places than most people, but to see tax added is the exception to the rule in my experience. Also, I, as a business owner, and am not required to collect tax from my customers throughout the US. Only in my state.
Before this goes into some sort of tax vs anti-tax thing, let me state that I'm not speaking out against taxes.
To help clarify for some; "Different State Sales
If you are in a different state from your customer, you do not need to collect sales tax from that person unless you have a physical presence in that state, but check to be sure your state has not enacted legislation, as mentioned above, to require sales taxes if you have an affiliate or solicitor in that state."
http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/businesstaxes/f/onlinesalestax.htm
I pre-ordered so I got the $100 discount plus the Uh oh protection. I do actually have decent head phones so not a deal breaker. In addition, I could always take the $100 discount and use that towards those head phones, still cheaper than an S7.
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