Originally Posted by
bniu
Easy example of what the US wants to prevent. A person buys a fully refundable ticket to any intl destination, shops duty free, picks up merchandise, leaves the secure area, cancels his ticket, and goes home with his duty free purchase.
I must be missing something. I've never noticed duty free prices to be particularly good compared to just going to the local store. I understand other countries might be worthwhile, but if I can buy Absolut for $18 in duty free or $21 in my ABC store it seems like a lot of work to save $3.