Don't want to mess this thread up with any factual information. We got 5 pages going and I am beginning to see page 13 potential here. Especially with all the red letters, capital letters, and we got Eddie and the webmaster going at it.
So I saw a very official looking document on a vendor's table in the Orange Hall. Turns out it was a State of PA Transient Sales Tax License. A nice colored document in a plastic page protector sheet. Evidently that number is required by the EDTCA to get a table in the dealer halls. The vendor said it shortens the conversation to about 23 seconds when the State Tax people come through during an audit. (I have seen that type of document in a train show at another state. The explanation by that vendor was almost identical.) He also related the story of a dry transfer business that had their booth inventory, their vehicle, and the vehicle inventory confiscated for a down payment of what the State of PA felt was owed to them. Evidently member to member sales of a club are exempted. When the public goes into the member halls then the sales tax license, tax, etc, is required.
Don't really know and don't really care, it's not my state or my train show for that matter.
I have always thought the York show was 50x to 100x better than any other train show I've attended. I spent a ton of money at this York with very little on my shopping list. This York was to be just a vacation of idle time and talking/looking at trains. I'm thinking at most spending a max of $500. I went way over that. I didn't spend a dollar at the last public show I went to and I would have paid a little extra for things just to not have to haul all the way back home from York.
You gotta believe the EDTCA doesn't follow this forum very closely, or surely they would attempt to repair their damaged reputation. I still think it's a great train show, but it's not all things to all people, as these five pages have proven.
Better read fast, this surely won't stay up for long.
