Posted on 04/29/2025 6:29:22 AM PDT by JoSixChip
@PressSec reacts to Amazon's announcement on tariffs: "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon... It's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm... This is another reason Americans should buy American."
Filco is a Japanese brand that is renowned for its high-quality mechanical keyboards. It's headquartered in Tokyo and it manufacturers out of Taiwan and Japan.
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Unicomp is a computer keyboard developer and manufacturer located in the heart of Bluegrass Country, Lexington, Kentucky. We are a small business. We manufacture our products in Kentucky. To compete successfully against products made in Asia, we must focus on producing the highest quality products at the lowest possible cost while providing the highest level of customer service.
I think by identifying products with prices increased by tariffs, Bezos/Amazon believes it will result in Buyers disapproving Trump and Buyers lobbying their reps to fight tariffs
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That’s a risky gamble.
Many people who shop at Walmart or on Amazon are happy to to live in ignorant bliss. As long as they don’t know it comes from China, they’re content.
By identifying them as having tariffs, they are asking people to open their eyes to the reason why it was so cheap.
This is clearly a big slap in the face at Trump. It’s obvious Bezos’s is using this to spool up Americans against the tariffs (and Trump).
Never mind. I see Unicomp makes keyboards in Kentucky.
They're only $189 for a wired, 1990s-era keyboard.
(And they'll probably go up in price because all of the intricate subcomponents inside are made in China.)
Fortunately, there's this alternative to the $19.99 wireless keyboards I've been buying from Best Buy at the rate of once per year or so.
See my post above this one.
Amazon helps small American companies sell products too. That said, Chic0fil-A is busy enough without having to deal with liberals discovering their 'acceptance of those different from them'. We need to start a rumor Chic-fil-A is supporting a Trump '28 movement.
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Great ratings on Amazon
I’m sure a quick Google search would show you that though.
I don't really care which Asian country my cheap computer keyboards come from. Taiwan? India? Vietnam? That's fine.
The question was what American company made keyboards and there is one. They make clanky, $200 keyboards (probably to fulfill government contract obligations).
Midterms. 2028. Take your pick. This is obviously what this is about.
I never had a Amazon account just for that reason selective buys is safer.
Amazon's decision to single out the cost of Trump's tariffs on consumers, first reported by Punchbowl News, has set up a clash between Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has sought to curry favor with the new administration and met with Trump multiple times since his election win.
"I just got off the phone with the president about the Amazon announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at an April 29 briefing with reporters. "Why did Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in four years?" she said, adding that "it's not really a surprise" because "Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm."
Why not to single out the cost of Democrat Wokeism and Climategeddon on consumers?
I used to sell custom firewall boxes locally. Early in the process, I was buying the cheapest small-form-factor computers with two Ethernet ports. Some of them were unreliable, failing in mysterious ways. When I checked the source, I found that the failures were manufactured in China. When I asked (through Amazon) how to fix the problem, I was told I could ship it back -- paying the freight and tariffs both ways -- or get a micro-soldering station and fix their quality goofs.
I quickly sourced the same form factor gear from a USA firm. Amazon carried their stuff. Price was ten percent higher. Haven't looked back, and my reputation improved as the products I sold just worked and worked and worked.
I still did 100 QA. That helped, because on a few of the units the little power brick failed. Unlike the China company, the USA company replaced the bad bricks, shipping one- and two-day. No questions asked.
Eventually, all the Chinese units failed and had to be replaced under my warranty. The USA units? Some of them have celebrated their third anniversary of installation. I do upgrades to the software regularly, so I can keep tabs on the health of the things. Happy customers.
Consider canceling your Amazon account today so they know why you are doing it. I did.
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Just quit using Amazon is the same thing.
Amazon has just issued a statement denying PunchBowl’s reporting and explaining that showing tariffs costs on the main Amazon site was “never a consideration”:
“The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products.
This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.”
Amazon’s share price is rebounding on the statement...
That is exactly what they should have done. Instead, they took the low road, the anti-Trump rode, and sided with China and the far left. Sad.
“Sorry. Amazon is like Chic-fil-A. Their service is too good to cancel over political BS.”
When Chic-fil-a stopped supporting Fellowship of Christian Athletes and started supporting woke, including a runaway shelter started by a pedo-priest, I walked and never looked back.
You can live without Amazon.
They list the parts of a sale. Tax. Shipping. No reason tariffs shouldn’t be on the list. Anybody that has a problem with transparency is wrong.
For the past couple years, I have started searching for stuff outside of Amazon, I have found prices are just as good in most cases and delivery may take a day longer, if at all. The only down side is, I get tons of emails from every company I shop at so every few months I go through and unsubscribe. Actually, I have bought stuff directly from independent online retailers and had delivery by Amazon.
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