Impact of Tariffs on Audio Market

@sns 

Doing the same thing as you are, which is what @texasblues1959 has so eloquently encouraged others to do:

Zero worry in 6 months this will all be done and gone. Why I made my purchases while folks were busy running around like chicken little.

So, anybody in this forum that suggests they are looking to buy now are downright fools. Purchasing in the next six months (thank God! Texas blue says 6 months...TOPS!!) Come December we can all buy our dream gear again! 

What would you say Texas, you have a way with words that should be censored just for it's intention to attack, what is your advice while we and all others folks who in the business of buying and selling audio gear? Stand back and stand by?

We can talk about tariffs all we want.  It won’t matter to most until they are personally  impacted.  Same with all the chainsaw cuts to government services made with no consideration for the impacts.  Now they are trying to hire people back to fill needed jobs.  Air traffic is a mess as an example.  Stay tuned.  My hope is it will all turn out well but considering how it has been done to date (on the whim of those with inflated egos  who are not SMEs in the areas affected) I have my doubts.  For sure whatever happens will be marketed as the greatest thing ever that nobody has ever seen before. No doubt there. 

@goodlistening If you were well capitalized and a forward thinking business person you would have laid in stock orders for hi-fi gear to beat the tariffs. We all knew they were coming the moment Trump  announced. I did the same thing with Russian Tubes when Russia rolled the tanks into Ukraine.

The secondary market is going to boom and many smart sellers are taking advantage of the tariff’s and the uncertainty it brings to the uneducated consumer.

I for one am not a fan of the tariff’s I understand goal and I resent the additional work it has created managing a portfolio of $250M in products (sales).

@gdaddy1 +1

The other things few people want to acknowledge are the poor working conditions in some of the other countries that trade with USA (i.e., low wages, long hours, poor benefits, lack of safety controls, and other conditions that would not be tolerated here) as well as less stringent environmental requirements than we have in order to protect waterways, air, solid waste disposal sites, people, and the environment in general. The American consumer has conveniently overlooked these things in order to have the latest and greatest products at low prices.