Anonymous wrote:Curious. How much can a retailer say is a tariff versus how much they are tacking on for themselves? Like shipping sometimes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How is transparency a hostile and political act? Consumers only deserve information favorable to Trump? Are we getting to be like Thailand where it is a crime ot insult or criticize the king?
Something to remember is that a third of eligible voters straight up didn’t vote, and even some people who do vote are pretty checked out and apathetic. I have family members who told me they don’t even bother watching the news because it doesn’t matter. Putting tariffs fees up while online shopping disrupts the apathetic.
Anonymous wrote:Justin Wolfers:
Amazon offers free advertising for the Administration's signature initiative, and for some reason the White House regards this as hostile.
When I make smart decisions that make the world a better place, I'm usually proud of it, and want the everyone to know about it. So what's different here?
Anonymous wrote:How is transparency a hostile and political act? Consumers only deserve information favorable to Trump? Are we getting to be like Thailand where it is a crime ot insult or criticize the king?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Amazon saying now it was just for Haul and wasn’t implemented.
What?
Makes sense. Amazon Haul is their version of AliExpress or Alibaba and their way to try to combat the 3rd party Chinese sellers on their site.
For those not familiar, Amazon Haul is a newish section on the app where you can buy extremely cheap Chinese products. I just brought it up in my Amazon app:
Stanley dupe for $5.99, the enclosed makeup brush holder that has been going viral recently is $8.99 on there, 15 kitchen dish clothes for $6.99, 115-piece screwdriver & socket set for $6.99, Lululemon dupe leggings for $4.99, 5-piece Bluey kid's PJs for $7.99, etc. You get the idea.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Amazon saying now it was just for Haul and wasn’t implemented.
What?
Anonymous wrote:Amazon saying now it was just for Haul and wasn’t implemented.
Anonymous wrote:How is transparency a hostile and political act? Consumers only deserve information favorable to Trump? Are we getting to be like Thailand where it is a crime ot insult or criticize the king?
Anonymous wrote:Was it even real news? The only source is punchbowl.news, a politics website that can’t even keep the site up.
Anonymous wrote: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.
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".