fun at costco

[aulocksmith]

Closed last August, just wondering as the company contracted a locksmith company, and one of the smiths was a local... Not you then?

Unforunately, no. Probably Statewide LS, from next to the train station. They could literally just walk across with their tools.

But I was in there a few times in the couple of years before they closed to get some gear for my camera bag. So, if you were working at Teds, you possibly could have seen me wandering around anyway.

[prjkt]

Closed last August, just wondering as the company contracted a locksmith company, and one of the smiths was a local... Not you then?

[aulocksmith]

Hmmm I used to work at Eastland... You didn't happen to come into a now former camera shop every now and then did you?

I can only think of 2 photo related places in that nightmare of a place, Rabbit photo down near woolies, and Teds. And I haven't been as far in Eastland as to Teds in ages, so no idea if they're even still there.

[SongsOfDragons]

My father was a self-employed contractor who basically sold his technical draughtsman services to petrochem companies to help design their new oil rig or somesuch. IIRC his 'company' consisting of himself and his 'secretary' my mother was enough to get in one of these bulk business places, I think it was called Macro. I was very young...I remember the toilets were only accessible from outside the gate so when I whinged about needing the loo once we were inside my exasperated mum had to take me all the way out and back in again. I remember it being like Ikea's warehouse floor, only without the meatballs...and the only thing I remember buying was a huge crate of juice cartons for my school lunches

[dawnfire]

I'm looking forward to the new one being built in Epping. It'll save traipsing into the city and Ringwood is too far to drive.

[prjkt]

Hmmm I used to work at Eastland... You didn't happen to come into a now former camera shop every now and then did you?

[aulocksmith]

Hmm it wonder of they'll accept an ABN registration certificate...

They should do. The ABN is after a business number, regardless if your trading under your own name or as a business name.

Edit: I just checked the Aus site, and it states, ABN certificate/registration of business or 3 pieces o fbusiness ID. So they do take an ABN registration certificate.

I love where the new melbourne store is, 5 minute drive from home, but kinda disappointed that they removed Ringwood Market for it.

[fireheart]

Hmm it wonder of they'll accept an ABN registration certificate...

I know that Campbells Cash n Carry does (same concept as Costco, but businesses only)

[prjkt]

Hmm it wonder of they'll accept an ABN registration certificate...

[Casino Jockey]

You can get one online here but I'd imagine it'd be worthwhile going in to actually sign up for one so you know where to go.

you still need to show business ID after signing up online when you get your card

[fireheart]

I don't know about Australia, but you can get a membership online.

You can get one online here but I'd imagine it'd be worthwhile going in to actually sign up for one so you know where to go.

[Draco]

Why can they not make registers that allow you to specify tax exemptness at any time during the transaction?

They can. My store has had it at the end of the transactions for the last nine years I've worked there. >.>

With the new touchscreen system, you even have to type in the tax exempt ID number at the end now (before you just needed an override).

[Employee28567]

I don't know about Australia, but you can get a membership online.

[wolfie]

Then the store switched to printing a duplicate receipt with all the extra boiler-plate disclaimers/store-side documentation at the end, with the space for the customer to fill it out at the end. One of the guys who had spare receipts pre-filled out wasn't happy, and complained every single time he came in.

Another customer just had special stickers made (like the kind you'd put on an envelope for the return address) with the information on them and slapped it on the receipt before signing it.

First customer sounds like a real winner - the store changes its procedures in a way that makes his "own convenience" workaround no longer work, so he complains EVERY TIME he comes in. Second customer is intelligent - finds a new "own convenience" workaround that works with the new procedures.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Why can they not make registers that allow you to specify tax exemptness at any time during the transaction?

Probably so that everything can get properly documented from the get-go, rather than haphazardly while it's in progress/after it's been done.

At the wholesale club, we originally used carbon-copy receipts for tax-exempt orders, fed through the check printers. Regular tax-exempt customers would sometimes take multiple blank receipts home so they could fill them out (with organization name, etc.) ahead of time, so all they had to do was sign it at the end of the transaction.

Then the store switched to printing a duplicate receipt with all the extra boiler-plate disclaimers/store-side documentation at the end, with the space for the customer to fill it out at the end. One of the guys who had spare receipts pre-filled out wasn't happy, and complained every single time he came in.

Another customer just had special stickers made (like the kind you'd put on an envelope for the return address) with the information on them and slapped it on the receipt before signing it.