Americans are 5% of the world population but 35% of the consumer spending. You gotta stick with the winning horse 
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This will probably change in 6 months, when everything will be subject to 15% tax, regardless of the shipping method…ECMS probably just trying to keep markethare going to EMS
The card arrived today via USPS and no tariff fees were charged. Shipped out August 6, so it took 13 days of transit. This timeframe is much longer than usual for me.
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Yeah, my packages ended up arriving safely. just took longer than normal. I assume the shipments have increased due to the tarrif rules changing.
what is this about declaring our own value? do you guys mess w/ that and lower the amount vs what was paid? figure we could get caught in some trouble for doing that so never messed w/ it lol
yeah, i was gonna ask.. in regards to EMS vs ECMS.. can anyone explain the full breakdown of each in regards to shipping items over xx value. and has anyone had issues w/ ecms? i assume its even slower than ems ?
Not sure if it’s been discussed, but the $800 de minimis exemption is being removed on the 29th August.
All shipments from any country to the USA will now be subject to tax.
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Finnish postal services have halted sending parcels to USA, first packages and now gifts/documents as well.
I’m posting this mainly here so @fourthstartcg and other Secret Santa planners have easier time completing the matchmaking without last moment surprises.
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There’s also restrictions in Germany and probably all other European countries as well.
Man am I glad to have sold a slab to a US customer a few weeks ago and not now. Thanks for the notice, gonna disable shipping outside of Europe if I still have it on any ebay listings now… The Express parcel as the only remaining shipping option would be like 3x as expensive.
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Who doesn’t love some good old fashioned isolationism
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Consigners in the USA will likely benefit from this. Send to USA with minimal declared, they sell it for the actual value
If I’m reading that correctly, anything coming from Canada to the US (regardless of value) will be subject to duties and tariffs.
So even if I were to send cards for consignment declared at $1, they’re still gonna be hit. I can’t imagine many US-based consignment services are going to want to accept cards from Canada now.
This makes absolutely no sense.
Less people will submit to US consigners as they don’t want to risk fees or legal issues.
It will benefit consigners outside the USA.
Already seeing a few pop up in Europe getting strong sales.
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Right, value shipment from Canada to USA consigner for $1 (or whatever is reasonable). Consigner pays the 15% on $1, plus any brokerage fee. And could probably charge another fee for taking care of that. Then from there all sales are free and clear of additonal fees
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One large shipment of 100 slabs sent to USA valued low is the idea.
The tariffs will kill European consigners because USA buyers will bid 15% less now
The brokerage fees can really add up, even if the item is declared at $1. I guess it will be up to the individual consignment service as to whether they want to deal with this.
I very much doubt that this will have much of a negative impact on European consignors. I assume their buyer base is heavily skewed towards European buyers already due to potential reduced import fees, and shipping to the US being expensive already.
Guess we’ll see how it goes
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Consigners grow not because of people buying (anyone can sell cards to people who want to buy them), but because people WANT to consign with them.
Now we have less incentive to send cards to the USA consignors.
We had almost no eu consigners until the past 6 months.
Now we have at least 3-4 that run regular auctions, eg SLAP.
I have and will continue to just drop cards at the Fanatics Store in London. Then wait for them to arrive the vault to sell/consign. It takes a while, but fairly frictionless. There’s not really any big consignors in the UK and I’d still have to deal with shipping, insurance, customs etc. to access the ones in the EU.
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Same for us in the UK from the 29th any item sent from the UK has a 10% tariff charge to be paid by the sender.
This means I will no longer be selling to US based customers unless the buyer agrees to pay the tariff on top of the price themselves.
At least we can still do great business between Canada and the UK 
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