By Kenneth Young |Staff Writer| The advertised price is never right; that’s one of the first things I learned when I arrived in California. This realization came to me when I was in a music shop in Orange County. I saw a CD for $9.99, ‘great’ I thought. ‘I can buy this CD and all I need is this tenner.’ When I went to pay for the CD, I handed the ten dollar note to the clerk. But he politely told me that I needed to give him more money. The concept of paying more than the sticker price is still a strange one to me. I have no problem with paying a sales tax. Even in Australia we have to pay 10 percent on top of the actual price of the product or service, but for us, this … [Read more...] about Australian exchange student trips about California taxes and tipping waiters