Aliexpress no longer an option


Anyone try to buy from Aliexpress recently?  I went in to pick up some copper banana connectors, added them to my cart to find out what our new tariffs look like.  $13.00 set of 4 bananas, $1.14 tax, $1.20 shipping and $23.40 customs fee!  That for a $13.00 item.  Trade war has arrived at our door.  Grrrrrrr….

Please reframe from the political debates/opinions I just wanted to inform USA audio shoppers what our China tariff reality is now.

tksteingraber

Showing 1 response by hilde45

There are so many great quality parts available from US suppliers, for a couple of bucks, there's really no reason to be buying banana plugs from Ali in the first place.  IMHO.   Now there may be many other valid reasons to hate tariffs, but this is not one of them.  

This is an interesting point which I cannot verify. Are most of the parts needed in audio available from US suppliers, and so the question comes down to cost alone? I am not on the repair or manufacture side of things, so I don't know.