Thank you again at Retro Mini Store.
We’ve been asked about tariffs recently about customers both in the United States and abroad that wanted to purchase our products. If you don’t live under a shell, you probably know that The United States President is sowing chaos on international commerce with outrageous tariffs, causing a lot of confusion, specially on the video-game and electronics market.
Since that is a fact that we all have to deal with for now, I decided to make clear the position of our Store about these Tariffs and how we can help our customers during this dark period.
I live in the United States. Should I worry about the Tariffs?
We are located in the United States, so in essence, no. If you buy anything from our store, you will not have to pay anything extra to get your product, including customers in the contiguous States, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The price you see on the cart, is the price you will pay.
I live outside the United States. How about me? Will I pay tariffs on your products?
Many countries announced reciprocal tariffs against products from the United States. Since all our products ship from the United States, you might have to pay something however, we are going to adjust the customs forms to include only basic costs of products. For example, a 128GB microSD card, regardless of the price, we will declare its price on the forms as $10. So if you have to pay taxes on your country over it, you’ll probably pay anything between 10% and 25%, so, in this case, your customs will charge you $1 or $2.50 in customs fees on something you paid $65 at our store. Same goes for Hard Drives. We will cap Hard Drive prices at $200 on our forms and declare them as used. So if you buy a $600 or $700 drive from us, you will never pay tariffs over those prices. Smaller drives will be declared between $50 and $100. This is to help you, customer from Europe, Canada, Australia , Japan and the rest of Asian countries that buy from us, save a ton of money on these unfair tariffs.
For How long can you keep prices stable?
Right now, the places where we source our products have not raised the prices on microSD cards, console parts, Raspberry Pi boards, controllers or hard drives. A few larger drives have raised a few dollars in price, but not enough for us to raise our prices alongside it. We will absorb any extra cost possible, so we can keep our prices stable, however, everything but the Raspberry Pi boards come from China, so we predict that as stock in our suppliers runs low, they will either run out of products we can buy to fulfill our orders, or they will raise the prices, let’s say 145% or more. In that case we might remove products relying on these items from our store, to avoid huge price hikes that can hurt our customers.
Finally, if you have any questions about tariffs, please let us know. We will answer any questions you throw at us!