RobDownSouth
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International eBay sellers are hurting due to Carrot Caligula™'s foolish and arbitrary tariffs, which seem to change on a weekly basis.
They've petitioned eBay to add a line to sales invoices for tariff charges. Petitioned denied, eBay does not want to upset der Pumpkinhead Führer (they saw the shit-show that happened when Temu and Amazon's ultracheap "Haul" service did that). Not to mention Trump voters in particular refuse to pay anything with "tariff" in the invoice, because Orange Julius Caesar™ insisted that COMPANIES not BUYERS would "pay the tariffs". The buyers would retaliate with 1-star ratings for sellers who they thought were trying to "Cheat" the customers. (Buyer ratings are sacrosanct).
The international sellers then asked that tariffs be added to the "sales tax" line on purchases. eBay said no to that too, because any stated amount would then be required to be remitted to the state charging sales tax, i.e. a $10 Texas state tax and a $200 Trump tariff would result in a sales tax line item of $210 and the state of Texas would claim that entire amount would be due to them.
eBay suggested sellers "bake the tariff into the price" but that would mean repricing all good sold to America each time the Trump Tariff changed and would be prohibitively expensive to maintain.
So eBay sellers opted for the only possible scenario opened to them: They instituted a flat $500 "shipping charge" on all items shipped to America. Period. Shipping to Canada? $6.25 CAD. The UK? 3 Pounds. The USA? $500 USD.
Other companies dependent upon user reviews are jumping aboard this trend, many Etsy sellers outside the USA have begun the $500 "shipping charge" as well.
Just another day in the Golden Age of White America.
They've petitioned eBay to add a line to sales invoices for tariff charges. Petitioned denied, eBay does not want to upset der Pumpkinhead Führer (they saw the shit-show that happened when Temu and Amazon's ultracheap "Haul" service did that). Not to mention Trump voters in particular refuse to pay anything with "tariff" in the invoice, because Orange Julius Caesar™ insisted that COMPANIES not BUYERS would "pay the tariffs". The buyers would retaliate with 1-star ratings for sellers who they thought were trying to "Cheat" the customers. (Buyer ratings are sacrosanct).
The international sellers then asked that tariffs be added to the "sales tax" line on purchases. eBay said no to that too, because any stated amount would then be required to be remitted to the state charging sales tax, i.e. a $10 Texas state tax and a $200 Trump tariff would result in a sales tax line item of $210 and the state of Texas would claim that entire amount would be due to them.
eBay suggested sellers "bake the tariff into the price" but that would mean repricing all good sold to America each time the Trump Tariff changed and would be prohibitively expensive to maintain.
So eBay sellers opted for the only possible scenario opened to them: They instituted a flat $500 "shipping charge" on all items shipped to America. Period. Shipping to Canada? $6.25 CAD. The UK? 3 Pounds. The USA? $500 USD.
Other companies dependent upon user reviews are jumping aboard this trend, many Etsy sellers outside the USA have begun the $500 "shipping charge" as well.
Just another day in the Golden Age of White America.
