TLDR: Amazon was going to show consumers the tariff as a line item so consumers know the actual cost of the price increases and they don’t blame Amazon for price gouging. At least on Amazon Haul.
Amazon said it had looked into itemising the impact for shoppers using Amazon Haul, a low-cost site it launched in the US last year to compete with Shein and Temu.
But it said it had decided not to move forward and the idea had never been under consideration for its main platform.
Being completely honest, I had a discussion with my accountant back in November about doing the same thing on our invoices. “China will pay all the tariff’s!!!” were exactly why I wanted to CYA and make it clear I was not the cause of price increases so clients were not mad at me. I had no idea how insane things were about to get
The losers on the Haul Team are desperate as well as stupid, they don’t have any products that buyers want, and can’t match Temu and Shein, before and after the tariffs. But they are providing an opportunity for Temu and Shein to raise prices more than the tariffs add.
When they look for their next job (pretty soon if not now), the Haul Team can say they were forced out of Amazon for political reasons, so they lost nothing by proposing the tariff display.
No, I believe they were matching what Temu and Shein are doing, showing a line item for the tariff
Then how are they showing 377% price increases that the press is reporting. That ain’t the tariff/
Temu is still offering me free stuff, twice a day.
BTW Just visited TEMU every item they are promoting to me has a bullet - No Tariff Charges and is shipping from the US.
16TB External Hard disk is price $26.99 so that it does not ship free unless I buy something else as well from the same seller. I don’t think Amazon has any way to match that. Of course, it might not work.
You seriously think your getting a 16tb hd for $26.99, then you deserve the line of bull you are being fed honestly.
There is one born every second now a days
Not plugging that into ANYTHING I own, NOPE
Even though it’s a Mega Sale? LOL
The reality is that a comparable Seagate drive probably costs $20 to make.
Remember how Canadians along the border would order and ship to a mail box on the US side and then drive over to pick it up and take home?
Wonder if US citizens along the border will be ordering to ship to a mail box in Canada and then drive over to pick it up to bring back home?
Free shipping but a $31 tariff charge. You could get a 4TB external HD for less!
Where the eff do we live? Oh, that’s right…
SMH
You got me on the variations but
No tariff
Hard disks are being supplanted by SSDs some consider them obsolete.
I have been happy testing my Temu supplied 2TB external SSD purchased for under $10 including shipping a couple of months back.
One of the few Temu products I have not returned as defective.
From time to time I wish Amazon would display how much fees they put upon us so customers won’t be mad at us…
I think I paid $130 for a WD 2TB recently.
That drive has literally hundreds of thousands of files from the business on it. Every 24 months I replace it with the same.
Not big on cloud storage but probably should…
Cloud storage is just “somebody else’s computer” and can experience outages and data loss, too. As I used to explain to the C-Level folks, when Microsoft or AWS has a major outage, will their team be focused on getting GM’s data back or on getting our data back?
Now that I’m an Amazon seller, I use Dropbox for short-term backup (though that’s not what it’s billed as) plus the other computers I have linked to the same Dropbox account, should Dropbox ever become unreachable (Dropbox has a feature that will update all computers on your local network without having to go out to the Internet).
Your process could be tweaked to be similar to what we’d do in our data center at my last job whereby we’d copy the data to a tape and send it off to Iron Mountain for long term storage. If you take your retired hard drives and mail them off to a geographically exclusive area (i.e., send them to a friend/relative in another state to store in a cool, dry place), you’ll have the old hard drives to at least restore back to the date you removed them.
Between all these units I might have 100-200 drives running, mostly in the 8TB range, but a few have 16, 18, and 21TB NAS drives. $40 an’t anything I would trust to even prop open a window, and if your blind enough to plug that into your system, well then best of luck.
Just as well 
