The Four Threats…..and tariffs
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I was out with some old colleagues from my university days yesterday. I realize I just used the same amount of money on three beers and two glasses of wine as I would have on an order of four CDs from Amazon. But then the question is – should I have prioritized differently? I don’t think so. There’s no point being a hermite just because you need some stupid CDs.
A few places, especially if you include happy hours. pilsguiden.no is a useful website. But mostly, it’s in the 100-130,- area. It was 99,- at the place yesterday (I didn’t select the venue).
I know everything alcoholic is quite expensive in Norway. So 99 NOK would roughly equal 8.65 Euros. THat’s ineed more expensive than over here. Just to compare, over here you cab get a 0.3 ml beer for a bit over 4 euros and a 0.5 ml one for around 6 Euro. Depending on the brand and place naturally.
99,- was actually on the reasonable side in this day and age. The average price for a 0.5 is 120 NOK, which is €10.50 (or $12.30). Ludicrous price in a ludicrous country.
Well, tariffs are on the world scene again. Will it never end?
I still don’t know how this will affect CD purchasing and shipments across the Atlantic, if any.
I guess it will never stop as long as a certain person is in power over there… I read however that the Supreme Court just said that some tariffs were not legal because they were set for the wrong reason… Probably will not make much of a difference…
Awesome that now even e-mail spammers have discovered that unpaid customs may be something to hook on 😉
Seems the EU has decided that there will be an administrative charge of 3,- Euros for all packages imported witha value below 150,-. They also plan some custom changes that any package will have a customs fee.
This is aimed at the loads of very cheap China imports via Temu or Shein and such. But as far as I understood so fare it makes no difference from where the import is. Certainly will also make everything else more expensive…
That’s irritating. Doesn’t apply to us, because we’re not part of the EU (although I wish we were), but it just adds to the threats. So that’s on top of regular customs, then?
I’ve been thinking of ordering some CDs now, since the exchange rate for the dollar is lower than it has been for a while (but still high, and it’s risen a bit in recent days). And exchange rate is one of the four threats. But even with that in mind, and the free shipping for $50 offer at Amazon, each CD remains expensive, and the customs rates on top of that are high. The goal is, as ever, to get a CD for what a full-price CD cost up to a few years ago. That is, about $16-17, max. Preferably a lot lower, of course (less than $10 in total). It’s proving very difficult.
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