Amazon plans to display cost of tariffs next to total price--Trump admin is pissed

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.

Some retailers grind the shipping costs into the price and some charge extra for shipping. If Amazon wants to indicate what is added on for the tariff that is good for the consumers to understand.

Why does Amazon hide shipping costs, then?

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Anonymous wrote:Amazon has already capitulated.

Link?

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Anonymous wrote:Amazon has already capitulated.

Weak.

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Was it even real news? The only source is punchbowl.news, a politics website that can’t even keep the site up.

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Anonymous wrote:Was it even real news? The only source is punchbowl.news, a politics website that can’t even keep the site up.

It was reported on the Forbes YT channel.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amazon has already capitulated.

Link?

See the Washington Post.

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Amazon is encouraging people to spend more now before prices assumedly jump. It's good for their business. They are acting on their own self interest, not yours.

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I came across a video on TikTok last night of a small body shop owner with tears in his eyes.

"President Trump said the other countries would pay the tariffs, but guys, I...I...it's not how it's working out. It's not, and I don't know what to do." Basically, several cars he's repairing have incoming parts that now have tariffs attached to them. He must eat the cost of these tariffs because the jobs are insurance repairs and he's already been paid by the insurance companies.

"I'm losing money. It's going to cost me to repair these vehicles. How am I going to survive? I can't survive paying to fix other people's cars."

I did feel bad for him because he 100% believed Trump that others would pay those tariffs. He claims to understand how import fees work but kept saying over and over "Trump said they'd pay not us" "Trump said" "Trump said".

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Anonymous wrote:Amazon is encouraging people to spend more now before prices assumedly jump. It's good for their business. They are acting on their own self interest, not yours.

No doubt. displaying the tariff cost might be good for their business.

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Trump screwed the supply chain.

Iz our oligarchs lerning?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the presser.

This woman is dumb as rocks. Why didn’t Amazon add a line for inflation. What and idiot.

She's a propogandist, just like very press secretary before her. Best not to listen to any of them. They're all FOS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amazon is encouraging people to spend more now before prices assumedly jump. It's good for their business. They are acting on their own self interest, not yours.

No doubt. displaying the tariff cost might be good for their business.

It’s also good for America. This is a mutually beneficial move if they carry it out.

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Anonymous wrote:I came across a video on TikTok last night of a small body shop owner with tears in his eyes.

"President Trump said the other countries would pay the tariffs, but guys, I...I...it's not how it's working out. It's not, and I don't know what to do." Basically, several cars he's repairing have incoming parts that now have tariffs attached to them. He must eat the cost of these tariffs because the jobs are insurance repairs and he's already been paid by the insurance companies.

"I'm losing money. It's going to cost me to repair these vehicles. How am I going to survive? I can't survive paying to fix other people's cars."

I did feel bad for him because he 100% believed Trump that others would pay those tariffs. He claims to understand how import fees work but kept saying over and over "Trump said they'd pay not us" "Trump said" "Trump said".

I don’t feel bad for them at all. Five minutes of research would have taught them who was going to pay the tariffs. This is survival of the fittest, now, I hope that he goes out of business.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a breaking story. The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.

“This is hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing.

As an aside, I was recently adding groceries to my Wegmans app list and a notice popped up on the app after I added one item telling me that it will cost 10% more due to tariffs. This is a great idea and all retail companies should follow suit so that consumers can know what the real impact of the tariffs is.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-over-tariff-cost-report-hostile-and-political-act.html

Cabbage Patch Face Karoline IS the hostile and political act.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.

Some retailers grind the shipping costs into the price and some charge extra for shipping. If Amazon wants to indicate what is added on for the tariff that is good for the consumers to understand.

It is very annoying when Amazon/eBay sort by price but don't include shipping you have to constantly factor in the price of shipping. If that is what Amazon had planned to do with tariffs. Basically, basically continue to sell artificially low Chinese items that are dumped on the market above American items that would end up with the same net cost, I would be miffed as well.