Tracking toy tariffs

TheRealSmallville said:
I'm old enough to remember when Dan Quayle's political career was destroyed because he added an 'e' to potato.
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I'm old enough to remember reading WildC.A.T.S. #1 where an alien was impersonating Dan Quayle and they referenced the potato incident. I was like 12 and I didn't get the joke but it didn't matter because Jim Lee was (and is) peak super hero comic book art.

Anyway, tariffs......
 
yojoebro82 said:
I'm old enough to remember reading WildC.A.T.S. #1 where an alien was impersonating Dan Quayle and they referenced the potato incident. I was like 12 and I didn't get the joke but it didn't matter because Jim Lee was (and is) peak super hero comic book art.

Anyway, tariffs......
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:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: that's amazing! I didn't know about that, I haven't read Wildcats. That's awesome.
 
Misfit said:
I'm guessing Legends go up to 30 bucks. There's no science behind my guess other than I think that's what Hasbro feels like it can get away with without losing a significant amount of sales.

I received notification yesterday that some stuff is expected to hit my PoL soon. Curious if there will be a tariff surcharge or not. The items (Super7 Misfits) are tagged with them, but maybe they snuck in before they went into effect?
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Likely have been sitting at the ports, so no tariffs yet. Likely won't see them really in full effect for a month or two.
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
When I've seen production cost numbers for products in the past they were usually around 30% to 40% of the company's MSRP for that item.

When you first hear that it sounds like quite a markup, but the products have to ship from China and be tariffed (the tariffs were always there; Trump just increased them), ship again to the retailer, and then retailers have to mark them up to make their cut and account for their costs as well such as employees, retail space, shipping the product to each of their stores, etc.
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A $10 starting cost for Hasbro plus two (generous) 40% markups (Hasbro->Retailers, Retailers->Customers) still only gets you to a retail price of less than $20 though, right? Not arguing the point, I've just always been curious what their actual costs are. Maybe we can FOIA some declaration forms.
 
Beamish said:
Just saw this...

toynewsi.com

Hasbro Price Increases Set To Kick In Tomorrow (5/9) - What To Expect

Multiple retailers are now reporting that we can expect to see across the board Hasbro price hikes due to recent tariffs to take place here in the U.S. tomorr
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I know this is small potatoes and no one will care, but if the prices on Pulse, Amazon, etc get raised without them explicitly indicating it's because of the tariffs I'm going to contact their customer service departments and act bewildered about the sudden price increases. I want them to feel some small amount of pressure to explain exactly what's happening and not be cowards about it.
 
hmmberto said:
A $10 starting cost for Hasbro plus two (generous) 40% markups (Hasbro->Retailers, Retailers->Customers) still only gets you to a retail price of less than $20 though, right? Not arguing the point, I've just always been curious what their actual costs are. Maybe we can FOIA some declaration forms.
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I think to square the math you have to assume that shipping is not considered part of an item's manufacture cost (for tariff purposes) but is part of Hasbro's cost for profit analysis.

Assume a $10 figure costs $2 to be on the boat, including container rental or whatever. Now the -cost- is $12, which means Hasbro wants to charge a minimum of $17, which means the retailer is going to charge around $23-25 - depending on roundings throughout the process.
 
I ordered the new Mcfarlane Silver Age Superman from a Canadian shop, Toy Snowman. Had ShopPay dollars (guess you accumulate them) which brought the figure down to $23 shipped. So I guess it was cheaper than getting it here in the US. Was curious how customs, if any, would happen. Ordered it 5/2. Went through customs on 5/3. And was delivered today 5/8. Not sure when de minimas was supposed to end or when tariffs were supposed to start, but I ddn't have to pay anything extra. Not sure if it was too small to bother.
 
I preordered nothing
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Ashtalon said:
I ordered the new Mcfarlane Silver Age Superman from a Canadian shop, Toy Snowman. Had ShopPay dollars (guess you accumulate them) which brought the figure down to $23 shipped. So I guess it was cheaper than getting it here in the US. Was curious how customs, if any, would happen. Ordered it 5/2. Went through customs on 5/3. And was delivered today 5/8. Not sure when de minimas was supposed to end or when tariffs were supposed to start, but I ddn't have to pay anything extra. Not sure if it was too small to bother.
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I don't buy too much McFarlane, but I had to buy the one I saw at Target. He was too classic to pass on. Overall, very nice, but could use some extra forward crunch.

CMD has updated their status.

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hmmberto said:
I know this is small potatoes and no one will care, but if the prices on Pulse, Amazon, etc get raised without them explicitly indicating it's because of the tariffs I'm going to contact their customer service departments and act bewildered about the sudden price increases. I want them to feel some small amount of pressure to explain exactly what's happening and not be cowards about it.
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Please don't harangue some poor customer service agent who has no power to do anything about this. They're just doing their job, and trust me, as someone who has worked in places that several times have had people that wanted me to pass something along to our CEO-- it doesn't happen. You're just giving some lowly, powerless, likely already miserable employee grief.
 
I saw it reported that officials were considering lowering China tariffs to below 60% as an opening that could be matched for the lower-level talks that are happening in Switzerland this weekend. I remain, as ever, not optimistic!

EDIT FOR STUPID UPDATE: Ugh, now he's saying 80% on his social media thing.
 
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