The long-awaited-expected email from UPS regards my Shimano Dura Ace Di2 groupset tariffs…. a wooping almost $500 additional from the current discount in Merlin Cycles. Since the COO (country of origin) of this groupset is from Japan, based on the newest increased tariffs changes (August 29th) now its a 15% fee from 5%
by xGaby-
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Murrrica !
I hate it here
I know it’s shit for you guys. But as someone outside the US, it’s hysterical that all these tarrifs that the US imposed on other countries means that US citizens end up paying those tarrifs.
Your president is a cunt.
Just looking. You could buy a 11 speed 105 groupset with that tarrif money.
Another confounding factor in all this “tax due at delivery” stuff is the literal delivery due scams that have been running for **decades**.
Send that email to China. They’re paying all of the tariffs. That’s what was told anyway.
What was warned about by the other side, what was warned about by the guy who was going to implement them, and what was ultimately voted for.
What’s hysterical is that Europe was already becoming cheaper than the US for everything and now the bike industry is actually dumping stuff on us at even lower prices just to get some cash flow. It’s utterly hysterical. I’m also not one of those people that carries on the illusion of cyclists and mountain bikers automatically being progressives. Nearly every mountain biker I was close friends with in the US is MAGA and always had a right conservative streak in them. They’re now hardcore MAGA and don’t understand why it hurts.
“And china will pay!”
Hilarious man. That’s what happens when you have a maniac running your country!
This happened to me too. My bill was $1500
America. Land of the fee, and the home of the wage slave.
This is what happens when people don’t vote and use the “both sides are the same” excuse.
70+% of American eligible voters voted for Trump or abstained. This is what most of you wanted, enjoy it, you earned it.
Scam?
Just buy from inside our country. Done.
It’s simply the price we pay for all the winning*
*trump and his grifters are benefiting from
Can’t buy anything overseas until this shit gets sorted out. Shit sucks.
I was about to pull the trigger on a couple of new Le Col kits. Another $100 in Pedo tax is fucking idiotic.
If only people had listened when we all said this would happen 🙃
Yep. My sympathies. Back in February I stocked up on items that ship from overseas (as much as I could afford to) in preparation for the next four years. And now when I shop online I check carefully about where products are shipping from. Hopefully my groupset or anything else expensive doesn’t crap out on me in the foreseeable future.
On the upside, I’m shopping way less and am saving quite a bit. On the downside, there’s everything else.