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

I can't give you an easier opportunity than pick to one thing he said and prove it's true. The fact that you haven't done it is pathetic and alarming in the same time. 

The gon hifi crew probably has thicker wallets than the avg dude out there...not the right crowd for a proper assessment.

But, a vast chunk of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Watch the ClusterF when they hit their favorite Walmarts for all their necessities soon enough. Don’t feel bad for anyone though. They got what they wanted..

On a different note, the sum total of all Chinese exports to the US equates to the GDP of one mid-sized Chinese metro area probably. Do "THEY" need us more than we need "THEM"?....nope

Are all the BRICS+, partner nations and others going to rally behind them, dedollarize some more, whatever? probably...Hang on to your pants

Someone who thinks "TDS" -- unknown to the DSM and to all professional literature of the subject -- is a genuine pathology, and who meanwhile accuses people with IQs in the 140 - 160 range of not only suffering from it, but of intellectual deficiency [!!], is too self-refutational to merit reply. But just in case anyone doesn't know, "TDS" is a political slogan whose purpose is to normalize the psychiatric diagnoses of sociopathology and malignant narcissism, which philosophically translate to solipsism and politically translate to authoritarianism. 

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Great point about the nursing home situation. I've read that 80% of patients in nursing homes are 100% on Medicaid. Nothing else covers them. These are someone's parents. About 60% of them are in some type of memory care facility due to their dementia. Happens to a lot of us as we age. 

If Medicaid is taken away, the majority will end up at their kids homes. Over 30 states have familial law that mandates kids take care of their parents even if they are estranged. They will garnish your wages if necessary. Memory care runs around $12-$15K a month. Let that sink in. All of this is so the super wealthy can get another round of unneeded tax breaks. 

All the best,
Nonoise