"Perry's back with US sales" Topic

Received email yesterday saying shipping to US with 10% tariff & Royal post additional charges. My plans put me into next year for purchases, but good to hear.

But I thought the world of wargames had ended! At least that's what so many other threads here sat.

BTW, I got an email from Victrix to the same effect.

Well that didn't take all that long. Good to hear

Yes, being able to get Perry Miniatures again is great news for both us and for Perry's business.

A 10% fee in addition to shipping is considered by some dodging a bullet and that it's manageable.

Sure – except you're going to be paying these sorts of fees every time you order from anyone in the U.K. for anything. 10% across a dozen orders from several different companies. adds up. And that's on top of what's happening in the U.S. at the grocery store, retail store, gas pump, and the electricity bill.

Those are all going up as well. None of them are going down in price. All up. And they're not going up by just 10% let me tell you, it's way more.

Death by a thousand cuts. Yes, I can afford to pay 10% extra on Perry orders. Doesn't mean it was necessary or that it's right.

I'm getting ready for the incoming flood of the oh so sensible, wise and grounded TMP old timers telling me that a week ago I was screaming that the sky was falling, oh the over-reaction and "it was all resolved within a week" blah blah blaaaah.

Deteriorating standards of living and increasing struggles to afford to live are always met with the "there's nothing to see here" crowd.

And they are generally the ones who don't take a problem seriously until it's faaaaar too late to do anything about it.

Yeah, I got a shipment notice from Irregular. No one's mentioned the tariff yet, but I'm confident someone will--unless they'd already included it? The Irregular "shipping and handling" can be a bit opaque.

Baranovich, your point is well made, but it's not the only way to look at the issues. We have been, sometimes, close to Adam Smith in a world which leans more mercantilist. For this we get cheaper goods, but also a lot of people at the lower end who have trouble finding work. And we've been spending far more than we're taking in, which doesn't make for a stable dollar. Tariffs are a clumsy solution, and in this case sometimes clumsily applied. But they could (possibly) be implemented in a period of what seems like decades of disfunctional government.

If in five years, some of my young cousins are working in factories instead of fast food and yard work, and the Federal budget is closer to balanced while all I'm out is a 10% tax on my imports, we'll have done better than I would have expected.

And now I'm getting back to miniature warfare. Plenty of places to argue fiscal policy, but they're a lot less fun.

I don't know. Shipping from the UK was already expensive, now add on another 10%. making a list of all US companies and I will stick with them for now.

+1 robert. And Grattan54, who would have thought that raising tariffs on imported goods might cause Americans to buy American?

Also, gas prices lower this Labor Day weekend than in 5 years. Nothing to see here, I guess.

And they are generally the ones who don't take a problem seriously until it's faaaaar too late to do anything about it.

Nah, they're the one who won't take a problem seriously until it affects them. Then they'll squeal like little bainbh, but still rejoice that gas is down.

Of course it's down ye mooncalves. The USA is a nett exporter of the stuff.

I don't think I've ever been called a mooncalf! Regardless, I harken back to a few years ago, when gas prices were a wee bit higher (like almost a dollar). Wonder what the difference was?

Gee, I guess "temporary" meant just that, as I tried to point out in an earlier thread. I hope all those who intimated that they may die first are still here with us.

MOONCALF: A mooncalf (or moon-calf) is a monstrous birth, the abortive fetus of a cow or other farm animal. The term was occasionally applied to an abortive human fetus.

The term derives from the once widespread superstition, present in many European folk traditions, that such malformed creatures were the product of the sinister influence of the Moon on fetal development. The earliest recorded use of the term was in 1565, referring to a human false pregnancy.

-- You sure can learn a lot following a post on The Miniatures Page.

Debatable, but if you're going to Google look for modern usage. That way you'll appear less of one 🤣

pzivh43 +1

Unfortunately our CA brothers will see another 65 cents per gallon added on.

goibinu, really? USA exports more miniatures than UK? Not anywhere close with the gaming around my area.

Oscs74

I can only suggest that you carefully read what I wrote again. Every. Single. Word.

You may discover a key word in there, and it's not miniatures.

Seems like the shipping suspensions are being worked out, excellent!

And I'm imagining miniature manufacturers aren't the only one's going to be charging extra "fees" now, although such is the way of inflation.

Death and taxes aren't the only things guaranteed, inflation is too. ; )

goibinu -- you sure can meet a lot of characters following a post on The Miniatures Page.

I'm ok paying a bit extra as frankly the National Import Sales Tax is a good start towards raising the kind of revenue needed to address the deficit. Further tax increases will be needed but this gradual increase tied to consumption is a good start and much like boiling the frog slowly, a good way to ease into fiscal sanity. Most of my purchases are UK, EU and occasionally Australia. 10-15% isn't much more than currency fluctuation.

I thought the aim of the tariffs was to drive manufacturing back to the US. Having been to China and breathed the air there I must say I was a bit concerned for the health of TMPers living in the US with all the potential factories springing up around the place. The Perrys could have easily avoided this disruption if they had just moved their manufacturing base.

If it is just an income-raising exercise though wouldn't it have been easier just to raise income tax rather than create all this uncertainty while the factories are being built?

Think of it as a tax on luxury items, since we really dont need this stuff and can afford any reasonable increase in price. Still a cheap hobby compared to golf, boats, guns, mistresses, etc.