no matter what they can do, it would be hard to overcome the sales tax hit. As much as I would prefer to buy from JJ, it's really hard to justify taking that hit.

I'm going to guess that the vast majority of cases of people actually paying use tax relate to automobiles purchased out of state that you have to register with your home state anyway so you can't really avoid it. As a practical matter, self reporting of use tax purchases just doesn't happen.

It's actually a shame as it puts local retailers at a big disadvantage and I would actually support a system that works for everyone, but no one wants to feel like a sucker paying hundreds of dollars extra out of pocket when no one else in their situation would do so.