Thread 11557892

When do you guys think that Tokyo Otaku Mods and other online retailers will resume shipments to the U.S. As it currently stands we are around 2 weeks in and the current administration has made no effort whatsoever to reverse the ending of De Minimis. Because of this, shipping services like Japan Post have halted all shipments above $100 but below $800 to the United States.

Have you guys pre-ordered anything that is currently in limbo because of this situation? When do you think shipments will resume?

>>11557892 (OP)
I hate the wording "end of". Because I just keep thinking the negative part of it is over. Also this happened to me

>>11557898
Don't care about tariffs anymore. Just want stuff to start shipping again.

>>11557944
Fucking if only.

>>11557892 (OP)
The problem is they're waiting for a stabilizing point, like the rest of us.

>>11557892 (OP)
I had Figma Zelda on order at Amiami but I've heard nothing and I'm pretty sure she's in stock. So they're ghosting me.

>>11557898
>not wanting /pol/ and /reddit/ here
What's the matter, dont want the usaid psyop spamming the board?
>>11558098
Sometimes amiami is just slow as fucking shit for notification.

>>11558098
They've been slow about contacting people lately, it's taken me like a week to get a payment request for stuff sometimes. Although, I'm not sure what they're doing for US customers yet. I haven't had any pre-orders hit since this whole thing has started. Nin-Nin got one of my orders in but it's just On Hold for now.

Well fuck there goes my toys

>>11557898
>how dare you bring up the death of toy collecting on the /toy/ board
Yeah, nah, get fucked retard. Brain dead morons ruined my hobby by voting for a fucking dementia ridden baboon with spray on tan, and now you're going to hear about it until this shit is reversed or until the entire hobby dies.

>>11558098
I had a shipment I paid for before de minimis ended and they said they'd send an email for updated shipping instructions but I haven't gotten anything yet. I'm wondering what the damage is going to be and if I'm going to have to basically cancel all my orders.

>>11558337
I feel like this has to happen often

>>11558459
usually when it happens its at sea and shit is lost for good
most of those containers will be fine, just a hassle for the dock workers

>>11557898
Just so you know, we all fucking hate you.

>>11558351
fuck off Diosoth.

>>11558804
No one cares about your internet boyfriend, autist.

>>11558337
Jesus, this is bad in general if they can't recover what's on there.

>>11557892 (OP)
Just charge a percentage tax on every order like the rest of the world. It's not that complicated.

>>11557892 (OP)
Got my first package coming since this started. Scared to see what happens.

>>11559978
Depends a lot on where you ordered it from.

>>11558804
I'm not him. The DDS thing is real. You sound like a chomo.

>>11560359
Cats

I honestly think this whole tariff situation has been one of the biggest modern day gaslighting mail issues in recent memory. It was "pitched" as bringing back American jobs (lol) and making other countries" pay their fair share", but in reality it has basically turned our USPS system into an European Union style import tax.

>>11560437
Mexico makes their own toys and have cheap toys. Maybe you should copy them.

>>11560709
No, we should copy brazil, because then we have more sega genesises and ps2i

>>11557896
have your shipping be refunded as store credit only is fucking highway robbery, anon
I'm sure you did something stupid like pay via paypal or some other nonsense, but if you actually have a real credit card and not some garbage like Chime or Pay Pal visa, you should insist on doing a dispute to them and claw all your cash back.

>>11557892 (OP)
>>11558001
De Minimis is a different issue from the current idiot trade export BS going on with tariffs and has nothing to do with congress or the courts. It's not going to go "back" or be "reverse[d]" - even Biden was planning to do away with it - at least at the $800 amount.

The one stupid, like almost all other shit they are doing, that the current idiots did was doing it without any planning or support, which is why everyone else just said 'fuck you' get your cheap shit from elsewhere. As this anon wrote, if they had calculated reasonable >>11559158
>percentage tax on every order like the rest of the world
and given the rest of the planet reasonable notice, you only would have noticed that shit was HIGHER PRICED before you even ordered something and y'all wouldn't be stressing about your plastic crap from China/Japan, etc.

The best outcome is that a new administration, three years from now, will put back a small De Minimis, like $100, but since most of you are buying collectibles that are over that, it won't help you, and since tariff will continue to jump around until someone who has never admitted he was wrong in 80 years admits they aren't working, which means never, y'all are stuck with price increases until 2029, at the earliest.

>>11558829
Stop posting homes.

>>11559038
They could but they don't want to.

>>11561316
DHL are scammers.

>>11561316
A handling fee is like a tip. Tell them you're never using them again.

>>11561316
I cancelled my genesic toyr!se because i figured shipping would be an assload.

>>11561316
Fuck seriously?

>>11561453
You didn't vote for this I hope

>>11561316
lol
lmao
kekw

I just want to collect my shit without owing some tantrum tax on top. If you hate it or complain well you're the bad guy. Shit sucks, man.

>>11561606
you Americans have brain damage and can't do anything right

>>11561623
Get back to the factory

>>11561623
More than a century of ZOG rule will do that to a country

>>11561639
This isn’t the own you think it is

>>11561642
Stop raping little boys Pedothena before your shithole SEA hangout gets nuked by china

>>11561639
>>11561640
>>11561642
Mexico has factories, why can't Americans make anything? it wouldn't take years to ship all the way from China. trump should have cried harder to the south Koreans to stay and teach them how to make cars

>>11561644
Why can’t you ever make an original post little bot singapore boy? Is it because you rape children? Or because you’re a closeted furry?

>>11561643
>little, PEDOTheno
>BaBaBino
>Rabarino
>Hunkacino
>Grabbapino
>Habberenorino

kek Americans fucked up big time and wont be getting any more toys ever anymore

>>11561645
Kek you Americans really do have brain damage if you think I'm some gookyroo posting here, no wonder Charlie Kirk got shot by your own Drumpf loving MAGA yard kind

>>11561646
>>11561648
You know you are one of the bigger pedos of this board, way bigger than SLT who you just LOVE sucking his cock, dryer than a bone oasis, you are a FAGGOT PEDOPHILE Kenneth Tan, and everybody knows you as one you chink child raper

>>11561649
Americans just love screaming at the sky like God is gonna answer their prayers and fix everything for them huh? enjoy paying $100+ tax for everything now

>>11561623
>>11561644
>>11561646
>>11561648
>>11561650
>IESLB NONSENSE
What was that?

>>11561316
>My duties fee is going to be $156 on top of $150 shipping
Sweet baby Jesus on the fucking cross.
After I get the things I pre-ordered for the first half of next year I am going back to art and electronics as my main hobbies because this blood sucking taxation shit is absolutely unacceptable.

>>11561650
>says shithole country creature

>>11561654
>you're from Singapore!

proof? oh rigth, just faith, much like faith in a imaginary sky daddy kek

>>11561653
everything you buy comes from China kek enjoy being poor

>>11561656
You know that the factory is undermanned, get back on shift in Singapore.

>>11561661
God it is so funny some retarded American still believes I'm some twitter weirdo from Singapore you conspiracy nuts really have no brains

>>11561660
>>11561662
You really like talking about others being poor for having a shit economy in your “country” here.

>>11561664
go cry about Charlie Kirk some more kek good riddance

im just gonna keep waiting to ship anything, if i have to eat the 30% i have to eat it but fuck paying for dhl's exhorbitant costs on top of that

>>11561666
Singapore is still poor rodent.

>>11561667
>fuck paying for dhl's exhorbitant costs on top of that
This.
DHL was fine during the early 2020s but the price kept fucking jumping year by year.

>>11561679
Just ship it yourself if it's too much.

>>11561660
Electronic components are cheap for the most part and I can drive a couple of miles to buy some cheap art supplies.
The government hasn't fucked that up just yet.

>>11561690
enjoy those new taxes to help fund Israel now that Charlie Kirk is ded

>>11561692
Rodent

>>11561667
>>11561679
Can we complain to them and see if that does anything?

>3 weeks later
>still can't ship anything from japan
is it over?

>>11564180
Pretty much. This is proven to be considered a "little person problem" by the people at the top and thus not worth noticing or correcting.

>>11564182
Then we have to make more noise about it

>>11564182
I feel like even if the supreme court rules tariffs illegal and they are reversed, they will forget about reinstating de minimis

>>11564203
de minimis is a totally different thing that keeps products under $X from being subject to tariffs, so yes that would not be under the purview of the tariff suits which are about said tariffs themselves.

The only question then is...if the tariff suit was won and the rate goes to 0 on China then...what tariff would de minimis be saving you from even if it did exist?

>>11564217
Tariffs wouldn't go to zero. Even before Trump there was some small tariff percentage on China and other countries

>>11564552
Well it'd be better than the current state of affairs

>>11557896
What's even worse is HLJ has now made it harder for people to cancel stuff and changed their PW into a virtual prison until you cough up the cash.

>>11564566
They are getting their revenge for all the people who abused their kindness before by leaving like tons of items in the PW forever and refusing to ship. Before collectors had the power, now retailers do

Apparently Canada and Australia are shipping to US again? https://youtu.be/V3_SEPAlWQc?si=aNWvCjulnsT90u3Y

Hopefully Japan soon

>>11564909
That's good at least... I hope something cracks with the US. This whole mess has been insane.

>>11564909
But there will be a massive tariff so...does it really matter?

>>11565158
Not as massive if you watch the video. Unless I missed something.

Hobby Genki brought back Fedex and you pay tariff at checkout

>>11565406
I may just eat those fees, I have two orders with them. They shouldn't be that bad, plus I paid for both months ago, so what do I care now?

>>11565552
I only have a January preorder with Genki. I’m hoping things improve by then. I haven't looked at how much it is but I imagine it’ll probably be a similar rape to the DHL screenshot that anon posted. I just want Japan Post to come back

>>11565667
Yeah, I have one for December and one that's for this month, I will probably eat the one for this month so I don't have to deal with it later. I already have one item on hold from Nin Nin, and an item or two coming in this month to Amiami.

>>11565667
>i. I’m hoping things improve by then. I haven't looked at how much it is but I imagine it’ll probably be a similar rape to the DHL screenshot that anon posted. I j
Fed ex is 15%+400 yen handling fee. We fine.

>>11565678
Well FedEx is still kinda expensive normally but if it comes out cheaper than bbts I guess it's okay

>>11565929
Yeah, i order it bulk but its still slightly cheaper than domestic. Dhl is absolute kikery now though, 30%+ whatever handling fees they want.

>>11565678
How are they doing that when the tariff on Chinese goods is 30-55%?

>>11565970
by declaring everything as made in japan like they've literally always done. you thought they'd suddenly start being honest about filling out paperwork just because of trump?
fedex may be more lax than dhl, or hlj is being cautious

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/japans-exports-us-continue-fall-hit-trumps-tariffs-125651669

>TOKYO -- Japan’s exports to the United States plummeted 13.8% in August compared to the same month the previous year, marking the fifth straight month of declines, as auto exports were hit by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

>The Finance Ministry data released Wednesday showed the rate of the drop in exports to the U.S. compared to the previous year worsened from a 10.1% slip in July.

>U.S. tariffs on Japanese automobiles and auto parts decreased from 27.5%, the amount Trump initially levied, to 15% this week, but that’s still higher than the original 2.5%.

>Wednesday’s data reflect the month of August, when the tariffs were higher. Japan’s overall exports were little changed, slipping 0.1%, as exports grew to Europe and the Middle East.

>The provisional data for August showed Japan’s imports from the world fell 5.2% from a year ago. Imports from China grew 2.1%, while exports to China fell 0.5%. Imports from the U.S. grew 11.6%.

>Exports to the world grew in food, gaining 18%, as well as in ships, growing by nearly 25%. Imports grew in computers, adding nearly 35% on-year, while aircraft rose 21%.

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So everything still sucks.

Remember to cancel any Hobby Genki orders you have, the absolute retards have been pushing shit through and sent me some threatening email about charging me for return shipping and "handling fees" if it gets sent back. Unfortunately I want the Toga revo so little that I'd rather just take the pennies I'll end up getting back for getting it returned lol

Anyone in the US receive something from AliExpress recently? Did you have to pay any fees on delivery?

>>11566340
I got the Black Hole Toys Majin Vegeta in about a week ago. No fees beyond the "import charges included" I paid when ordering. Didn't amount to much more than sales tax. Just make sure the shipping method isn't USPS, UPS, Fedex, etc. You shouldn't get a fee on delivery with Aliexpress standard shipping or Yunexpress premium shipping.

>>11565972
If a package gets inspected that would be a big issue for them given the boxes are labeled made in China

Honestly with Americans unable to buy anything it's been a lot easier for HLJ to fill in on those Bandai Model preorders making it way easier to actually get what's ordered.

>>11566542
big if, considering how understaffed usps is that they decided to outsource their entire tariff collection; they don't have staff to open shit

anyone who wasn't anti-trump is complicit in this bullshit.
enjoy your unnecessary inconvenience.

>>11566930
There are more important things to be worried about than how inconvenient it is for me to import toys.

>>11566969
whatever is more important than importing toys wouldn't really affect you so why do you even care?

>>11566976
Just ignore the troll

>>11557892 (OP)
>When do you guys think that Tokyo Otaku Mods and other online retailers will resume shipments to the U.S.
Not until... (see pic)

>>11566969
This is a toy board, sir

>>11566969
>Sure Jan.webm

>supreme court ruling in November rather than October
Fuck this fucking suspense dude I am worried about my November and December POs

>>11566924
Only takes just one

>>11567128
brother it will likely take them until January to actually announce shit

>>11567128
>More than half of judges are republican
Do we even have to wait for the results?
We all know they're gonna rule it legal and give him taxpayer's money just to put in his pocket.

>>11566930
Shut the fuck up, Diosoth.

>>11567413
He hasn’t posted somebody’s home address (yet) so not fully sure if its him, just mention cats to be sure.

>>11567349
Not necessarily; Lutnik (and likely trump through him) has invested in refunds for the tariffs. That should tell you a lot about the administration’s confidence in their legality. At the very least it’s up in the air enough that they are hedging their bets against the possibility of them being declared unconstitutional.

Is there a idiot's guide to tariffs anywhere that explains which countries have what rates or other customs fees?

It was hard enough to keep track of before but now there's also the duty rates or whatever which is a flat sum for specific countries now that de minimis is gone, or something?

>>11568022
Wouldn't that be nice?

>>11566976
Exactly. Like trans genocide, sister!

>>11567349
>taxpayer's money
you didn't care where it was going before

>>11567533
>has invested in refunds for the tariffs
y'all will believe everything your elders post on facebook and then repeat to their kids who post it on the tiktok for you to repeat to idiots on mongolian basketweaving pinterest puzzle sites

Feels good never having to pay import tax