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Anker Raises Prices on Amazon Due to Tariffs
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All I buy is Anker these days because it’s the only stuff I’ve found that doesn’t break in a year. I’ve got chargers and cables and batteries I’ve been using for 6-7 years, maybe more. Surprised by this take. Even my fussy dad has started buying Anker now and hasn’t complained once.
And that’s all fine and good, but we still have taxes on India and Vietnam that might go back up in 89 days.
I genuinely don’t understand this trade war when we all know there is nobody in America who wants to make braided iPhone cables or MagSafe compatible devices. It’s not cost effective.
What are you gonna do? Charge $75 for a 1 meter iPhone cable made in America?
Made in the US ≠ parts are made in the US. A lot of things that are put together in US factories use parts from all over the world, and a LOT from China. In other words, everything you mentioned is still going to be affected by tariffs.
And no, nobody "needs" a TV, but that doesn't make the situation any better.
'Not entirely wrong' means what exactly? Not entirely right? Not right at all? Just a little wrong? Sorry, just having some fun with ya. But how much wrong is acceptable when throwing the world into economic crisis? I agree, we could debate the effectiveness of tariffs, or even why tariffs have already been in place with China. I can also agree China is a threat that we should take seriously. But if you are going to suggest 145% is anything but comical at best, but most likely deeply ignorant of the world economy, then we are going to have to agree and disagree.
The U.S. is screwed because we are utterly reliant on other countries for manufacturing. The current tariffs are simply illustrating "early" that unless we rebuild some manufacturing capability, it is inevitable that said other countries will use that reliance against us.
For those who don’t pay attention to politics (or watch propaganda masquerading as news): Tariff wars are bad, consumers pay the price.
It won't be until China decides to stop exporting to the US that some folks will realized how screwed we are. We depend upon exports from China for pretty much everything. It would be a veritable economic sanctions against us.
Half of us knows we hitch our wagon to the wrong horse. Hail, we were cheated by the system and brain dead MAGAts.
I've seen it stated that exports to the US only represent just over 2% of China's GDP (reference: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports/united-states). I did wonder whether China could ban exports to the US and really show the US how much they have come to rely on Chinese manufacturing.
That's why Anker (and Ugreen) are so popular - they built their reputations over many years for not being cheap Chinese junk that is built to poor standards and is unsafe. Ironically, it's US companies like Amazon that are likely more responsible for this. On Amazon UK, searching for "USB charger", I would not touch 6 of the first 10 entries with a barge pole.
Compared to Donald Trump it is.
Cry me a river… America - you’ve made your bed, now lie in it.
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All price increases in the US should be labeled “Trump Tariff Tax” for transparency.
Yep. There is very little that I would be willing to search for on Amazon without a specific brand in mind. Even then I must be cautious because they so often load other brands before the ones I specify.
I thought I made clear in my post that I consider the blanket tariffs unwarranted and the magnitude excessive, so I'm not sure what we are supposedly disagreeing about.
Well, we haven't.
His entire lifetime of running companies into bankruptcy, including a casino (stats don't lie... casinos always win) pretty much sums it up. I still haven't forgotten him bragging that his hotel was the tallest building left in NYC on a rather bad day in US history. What a guy.Because we can determine that from the last week
If by "this" you mean Trump's tariffs, then no.
Trump's actions are for cruelty, and his own glory (in his mind.)
The vast number of experienced economists who warn against the Trump-style tariffs ought to inform you.
Warranty cases are pretty rare, though, in my experience, moreso in the second year. Less than 1%, I would estimate. There are some country-specific fees (which is why different EU countries have different prices), and conceivably some operational costs factor in, but it might also just be exchange rate hedging by Apple.
I'm sure everyone that voted for Trump can't wait to make 2,000 daily USB cables for minimum wage. Ideal!
We really don't need to migrate back to a coal mining powerhouse, and Trump is now trying to spend money on that. Really unbelievable. He lives in the 1920s gearing up for the great depression V2.
Well... try thinking like a near-octogenarian who bragged about his gold toilet and who listens mostly to his daily urges and to an Apartheid-nostalgic South African.
That 2% figure got me curious how exports and GDP generally compare. Statista says that over the last few decades, the exports of goods and services has made up about 10% to 13% of the U.S. GDP, 18% of China's (with a big surge to 30% in the mid 2000s), 13 to 40% of Mexico's and about 30% of Canada's (with only two data points each for the last two.) 2% is a much more significant slice of 18%, especially to a market representing 5% of the non-Chinese world population—but yes, as a 'Murican, I thought our slice would be a bit larger. Caveats: I do not know if these values are high-confidence data or limited to countries of final consumption, and have no economics training to authoritatively evaluate any of it.
Ugreen is usually solid as well. None of these companies design the internal components themselves anyway, that all comes from external Chinese suppliers that specialize on the actual electronics. It's possible to find the same components in no-name products from Alibaba for a fraction of the price (of course, you won't know beforehand).