Tracking toy tariffs

“I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
 - Donald Jessica Trump.

Hmmm. That sounds an awful lot like "Let them eat cake!" to me.

I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But I can't shake the feeling there's A Tale of Two Cities moment coming up.
 
SDcomics said:
“I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
 - Donald Jessica Trump.

Hmmm. That sounds an awful lot like "Let them eat cake!" to me.

I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But I can't shake the feeling there's A Tale of Two Cities moment coming up.
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Considering how often he sounds like the kid who didn't read the book before giving a book report in front of the class, it's very on-brand.
 
Also, Amazon has raised their figure prices.. marvelousnews posted about, citing the big deluxe comic hulk went up $5, the gamerverse symbiote Spiderman went up $3, and the Black Series Sandtrooper went up $6. I'll do math tomorrow to see how this affects me going forward with collecting, but part of me* is always itching for an excuse to quit.


*It's the depression part. I admit it.
My void.
 
Ru1977 said:
Also, Amazon has raised their figure prices.. marvelousnews posted about, citing the big deluxe comic hulk went up $5, the gamerverse symbiote Spiderman went up $3, and the Black Series Sandtrooper went up $6. I'll do math tomorrow to see how this affects me going forward with collecting, but part of me* is always itching for an excuse to quit.


*It's the depression part. I admit it.
My void.
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Not at all trying to contentious, you're totally right, but also worth noting that Amazon has been raising prices over MSRP since before all the new tariff increases. They're completely ignoring MSRP in a lot of cases and just charging by supply and demand. Like how that Classified wave that was underprinted with Saw Viper and Zandar was and still is $30 sold and shipped by Amazon. Hell they even want that much for Battle Armor He-Man, which I don't understand at all. They just jacked his price up to $30 at the end of 2025 and he's still up there. If you tell customer service they're charging over MSRP they say, "Amazon doesn't have any control over the price." Infuriating.

Side-note: they can, and will, keep those $32 Sandtroopers. I remember getting a bunch, with double elbows and knees, at full price for $20 not too long ago.
 
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Ru1977 said:
Also, Amazon has raised their figure prices.. marvelousnews posted about, citing the big deluxe comic hulk went up $5, the gamerverse symbiote Spiderman went up $3, and the Black Series Sandtrooper went up $6
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That has been true for 5+ years though. Amazon has an automated price matching bot that adjusts prices to match all of their major competitors. As far as I've been able to tell for years Amazon sells nothing at MSRP, but instead sells everything at the highest price they can get away with as long as nobody else has that item for cheaper.

So I wouldn't use Amazon as any kind of indicator of what they think is going on with the market, but instead a general indicator for what all of the other major retailers are pricing things at. Which itself is useful, it's just not Amazon really deciding to price any given item in that way.
 
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Blech. I should really learn to keep my mouth shut. Every time I go to the mall and check out FYE and see their basic Black Series figures at $45, I always roll my eyes, but that might soon be the norm!
 
Okay, this doesn't have anything to do directly with tariffs, but after declaring National Holidays, this is what he said, “we will not be closing the Country” for them, because “we already have too many Holidays in America”

Can he never not be a complete a-hole? How many "let them eat cake" moments are allowed?
 
mrboshek said:
Can he never not be a complete a-hole? How many "let them eat cake" moments are allowed?
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A near-infinite amount since the great majority of his base doesn't pay attention to political news anyway. That's why he bold-face lies to them; he knows most of them won't catch the vast majority of his lies.

Most of his base does catch some of lies at times, but they come up with their own personal justification for the lie such as "oh all politicians lie," or "he's lying for a good reason," etc etc. They don't know he's different because they're barely paying attention. He figured out how to mislead these people better than any other US president has in the past century, although prior to mass media there are multiple past presidents who knew they could bold-face lie without consequence because most of their voters would never be able to tell they were lying.
 
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A near-infinite amount since the great majority of his base doesn't pay attention to political news anyway. That's why he bold-face lies to them; he knows most of them won't catch the vast majority of his lies.
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In general, one of the silly moments that struck me last year about non politically knowledgeable people was Bill Clinton walking into a McDonalds after campaigning for Kamala and the lady working there thought he was Joe Biden.

https://imgur.com/a/8kRl2Gq

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Ru1977 said:
but part of me* is always itching for an excuse to quit.
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I know there is a different thread for this, but I'm with you. I've been selling off a LOT of stuff and honestly...it feels good. I don't think I'll ever fully quit, but paring down and not knee-jerk PO'ing everything in sight has been good for my mental and financial health.
 
akajomiha said:
I know there is a different thread for this, but I'm with you. I've been selling off a LOT of stuff and honestly, it feels good.I don't think I'll ever quit, but paring down and not knee-jerk PO'ing everything in sight has been good for my mental and financial health.
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That's how I was last year and the year before, and I completely agree. Getting the collection down to stuff I really love rather than half of it being stuff I have because I have this other one fills me with joy every time I look at it. I still kinda chase that feeling, frequently eyeing figures I may be on the fence about. I feel it's healthy.
 
Wicker_Basket said:
I'm assuming you don't think Palestine and the US's complicity in the actions of the Israeli government are an issue of real legitimacy. or at least that it is not an issue serious enough to affect voting behavior (in a scenario involving politicians unwilling to change their policy in the wake of public outcry).
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Here's the thing about that... those 'protest votes' over the Biden admin's participation in Israel's treatment of Gaza ultimately - and very predictably - did NOTHING to make the situation in Gaza better, and likely allowed it to get worse. A Harris administration maybe could have been pressured into doing at least something to try to impact Israel's actions... the Trump admin certainly isn't. Are those single issue voters who punished dems for Gaza satisfied with the current state of things? It was at best short sighted in the extreme and at worst naked manipulation to suppress dems chances.

No one is saying its wrong to be angry about Gaza or even about the Biden administration's participation in the conflict. But it was idiocy to think letting Trump take office would be better in that regard.
 
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