• peereboominc@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Why not add the tariff to the price? If someone in the US still wants it, they can buy it and pay the tariff.

    • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I assume they will. The problem right now is how volatile and abrupt these policies are. If they make an adjustment now, sell a laptop at that price, and then tomorrow additional tariffs are implemented they may well end up with a loss on that sale to you. The pause is likely just to see where things will stabilize to.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      By the time they calculate the result on their retail price and update the website the orange will probably change everything again.

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      5 days ago

      They presumably assume they’d be selling so little that it wouldn’t be worth the trouble.

      They’ll probably wait out this situation for a while and see what the competition does…