So buying cards from Japan just got 24% more expensive

[xileets]

Naw, there’s no pretense.

But I was looking at JP buys this morning, thinking “+25%”
Now I’m thinking, “+25%?”

[filthynwah]

If only we could have seen this coming! How shocking.

[Slade]

10% in a day is bonkers …

[charizardespana]

I mean it’s kind of back to where it was just a couple days ago, and still down on longer time frames, sadly.

[stagger12]

Here’s the last week

[charizardespana]

Is this real life?

[filthynwah]

When will people start treating a system that is hundreds of years old like they weren’t born yesterday?

[banks]

[charizardespana]

Caught in a

[pfm]

Can we start calling it “The Gulf of America”

[eeveeteam]

It already is

[Will]

[stagger12]

lmao is the first week of April Florida?

[A.P.Speeze]

I know things are paused right now, thankfully, but when/if they resume look forward to having to call and explain mistakes like this.

FedEx notified me that one of my recent packages was marked with a Census Warning Code 27d because the value was unusually high. Customs Border Protection marked the package value as over $130,000 US dollars when the invoice they sent was clearly marked Japanese Yen.

This is the data CBP entered for the package.

While this is the invoice that they referenced.

[charizardespana]

Obviously they are dummies, an email should clear that up.

I’m hearing a lot of horror stories about US customs currently.

I’ve also had a package go missing with customs via UPS.

I’m holding off sending anything to the USA for now.

[tidaldreams]

i learned to only use ems for buyee packages

[tediorso]

High shipping costs because of Tarrifs?

Noticed some Chinese sellers increased shipping by a lot! Last two picks are receipts from cards purchased last month.

[fourthstartcg]

Tariffs are paid by the importer upon receipt of the package, not by the shipper. So the shipping costs aren’t a tariff fee or anything like that. However, Chinese sellers may not want to ship to the US because of the tariffs and may be jacking up shipping charges to ensure that people from the US don’t buy their items.

[tediorso]

Got it, thanks! So more of a side effect.

Hard to keep up. Part of me feels like economics is just astrology for frat bros.

[swibby]

odd considering they could just exclude the US as a shipping location in their settings. I guess they’ll take the shipping charge if someone actually wants to pay it lol

I’m pretty sure shipping charges are included in the declared value so that’d be a double whammy for the buyer