Consumers can simply buy American products instead.
Interesting. I wonder if Amazon could design their website so that it will list items sold in the continental US like eBay does.
Sorry. Amazon is like Chic-fil-A. Their service is too good to cancel over political BS. I’m pretty sure they lose money on the things I buy from them…. Like one tiny 6” usb cable that they deliver on the same day.
Jail Bezos for election interference.
One good thing, it will expose those non-tariff taxed items going up in price by unscrupulous businesses just jacking up prices because they can.
This isn’t going to be easy, but I’m going to try boycotting Amazon. There are two Wal-Marts within five miles of me and they both deliver.
I canceled today because of their RUFUS THE DUFUS, their AI chat that pops up over the website. Can’t see what I am looking at because Amazon is far more interested in people using their AI chat than buying products. Annoying as hell.
I am done with Amazon.
The reality is that American-made products cost ~4% more than made in China crap. Most buyers would not actually notice this. However, that’s a huge amount of profit when concentrated in the distributor’s hands.
This is why the companies who offshore production are fighting to keep their gains. Also of note is that the average profit margin >4%, so we’re not talking about bankrupting businesses, just not letting them make as much profit at the expense of the American people or national security. Boo hoo
https://realspmorrison.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/161690205?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts
That just means their prices will go up. No?
If the prices are significantly higher, the sales will suffer, particularly if people can find alternatives.
Some people are lazy shoppers, but it’s a lot easier to search around these days when you are buying on line than it was back in the day when you actually had to travel to price shop.
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).
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...
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.
If the President follows through on using the revenue from tariff collection to lower taxes for low/middle income Americans, it would drive home the benefits of having a tariff regime in the first place.
If buying on Amazon, do a CTRL + F and search on ORIGIN and it will tell you the country.