It appears Brown Paper Tickets is charging a double tax on recent purchases. I checked my Kiwi Herman purchase and indeed they charged a second tax (see Kiwi Herman thread). I also checked BAVSS and they did it as well. A friend checked his Council's Pirate Breakfast. Yep, again. It's not a lot of $ per purchase but it adds up since this is most likely happening to everyone who purchased via BPT.
I'm just trying to check Monster's Park for example, but I'm not sure how to find the "service charge". I can only find: Barrel-Aged Monsters' Park bottle release! Sep 30, 2014 12:00 PM Coffee Rye Barrel Monsters' ($23.00) 2 Will-Call Barrel-Aged Monsters' Park bottle release! Sep 30, 2014 12:00 PM Rye Barrel Monsters' Park ($20.00) 2 Will-Call Barrel-Aged Monsters' Park bottle release! Sep 30, 2014 12:00 PM Tennessee Barrel Monsters' ($20.00) 2 Will-Call and then $146.44 is the total. Any idea? Is the service charge flat or a percentage? PS. Good find @DCLAguy11
If someone wants to reverse engineer some math with the Monsters Park, another data point I can provide: 2 Coffee Rye bottles ($23.00/each) - $53.28 MT Sours release: 1 News ($25.00) 1 Rampart ($30.00) 1 Oracle ($30.00) 1 Palace ($30.00) Total: $132.19 Providing this since we already know that Kiwi herman, Pirate's Breakfast, and BAVSS are problems. Wondering how far back this would go.
I do not believe @grze or @SDReaper have paid extra based upon the kiwi Herman bottles appearing to be exactly 2x sales tax. 2x sales tax would put all of those modern times orders over how much you paid.
Good stuff, I figured more data points would be good and those were the only other BPT releases I can remember I participated in for bottles.
But then here's Citra from Feb 19, 2014: (that was the flash sale. In case anyone is wondering if I ever won the lottery the answer is no...sadly) "Admission Level: Citra 6-pack Six bottles at $7 each plus tax and CRV", which should be around $45.36 + CRV, which is $0.05 per bottle as I believe, so $45.66, right? My total was $48.03 So the initial tax was $3.36 and then the difference between what I was charged and what the actual value should've been is $2.37. Anyone can make any sense out of it? Oh, also on top of the page where the price is shown, it was: Citra 6-pack ($45.45). I guess the BPT service charge is percentage based.
In case anyone wants to double check my methodology: Kiwi @ $15.99 x 2 = $31.98 31.98(1.08)= $34.53(1.08)= $37.29 + $3.20 BPT fee + $0.10 CRV = $40.59. Assuming rounding makes up for the $0.01 difference.
@grze I think the one thing that makes a difference on these BPT purchases is if the "bottle fee" includes crv and tax like the Kiwi Herman one did. I checked my Citra purchase from last October and the 6-pack cost was $51.90 but the total I was charged was $54.71. The difference is either the tax (which would be 5.4% in this case - I'm not sure what the tax is for KRBC) or the fee ($2.81).
So for Citra, for example, the fee would be: $51.90 x 0.035 + $0.99 = $2.81 which adds up to the difference above and shows that the bottle price (6-pack for $51.90) for Citra includes tax and CRV.
Yeah, same logic works with my order (45.45 x 1.035 + 0.99 = 48.03). Also, in case anyone is wondering, sales tax in Kernville is 7.5% so that's how they came up with 45.45
