[Talisman]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

So let me end with an example in which the Tariffs suck because it's doing more than just what we've seen here. Ever heard of Kotetsu Toys Japan? Online import store owned by a man named Taka who has a lot of second hand and single versions of toys people can grab and is all around a good guy? He might end up having to close his store as a result of this. Dude has been dreading every bit of news we hear about it (I've been seeing it on Twitter, dude's not taking it well) because this store is his livelihood. Here's a video he made on it recently.

Aww man, not Taka!

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Originally Posted by MKDremare

Okay, so this is from Hololive's online shop, but I think it's a pretty good look into how this shit's gonna affect every online store, regardless of what it sells, as long as some of the product was made in China.

This is an example of what this will look like.

And here's the example if you don't want to go to Twitter.

So yea, I think it's pretty fucking important to understand how this affects everything. You don't need a college degree (or even a high school degree) to understand how utterly unacceptable the tariffs are.

This shit is going to do so much damage to the small stores who can't afford these duties, like Kotetsu Toys Japan.

This isn't a "boohoo, I can't get my toys!", this is literally a "No one will be able to get anything ever again, period." Like, who on earth in middle-class America can afford this?

Kotetsu, CS Toys, Tokullectibles... heck even larger operations like BBTS and HLJ are going to struggle under this.

Putting it another way, hobby spending is effectively dead, no matter what you're into, because almost everything we buy comes from overseas and abroad and what's left in here will not last long. And while some can make the argument of "well you shouldn't be concerned about toys anyway" understand that kids still, believe it or not, play with toys, still develop around them, and this is going to affect them considerably down the line because play is important to development. And just as much, hobbies are important to maintaining sound mental and even physical health, be it building a robot model or playing a sport. Both of which, I might remind you, require equipment or materials that are made overseas. Which means they're going to cost more. Which means a lot of people will no longer be able to afford them.

There is absolutely no upside to this situation no matter how much you contort yourself to look at it. It's not that there's going to be more money freed up to pay for necessities, it means necessities are going to become so exorbitant that there's less money to go around.