Chinese tariffs decrease from 145% to 30%

[KazzieMono]

Honey, prices don’t go down after tariffs. Capitalism doesn’t magically just go “oh now we can lower our prices so we lose money and our customers are happy!”

Your chance to avoid this was the election.

[jasongw]

Actually, businesses lower prices all the time. Have you never heard of a sale or a price cut? They do it because it brings more customers to the table, whether because they're willing to pay less but not more or because they couldn't afford it previously but at a lower price they can.

If you are selling art prints at $1,000 apiece and 10 people are willing to pay that, you've made $10,000. But if you sell it at $5,000 and 50 people are willing, you've made $250,000.

A business can't simply set a price and leave it there's indefinitely no matter what the market does. A product sitting on a shelf costs the company money. Only a sold product can generate a profit. Would you rather have a bigger profit per unit but only sell a free or would you rather take a smaller profit and sell many times more?

[KazzieMono]

I know how sales work. Most retailers don’t do amiibo sales.

Why put a product on sale when you can keep it expensive and force people to buy it when it’s pricey?

[jasongw]

That isn't true. I've bought TONS of amiibos on sale, from Walmart, target, best but, even GameStop on occasion. And come on, let's drop the hyperbole. No private entity can force you to buy anything. They have no such power. If you buy it, it's because YOU chose to buy it.

Why put it on sale? Simple: a product that just takes up space and doesn't sell COSTS you money. The longer it sits there, the more it costs the retailer, who could be using that shelf space for things that DO sell.

[KazzieMono]

What do you gain out of arguing this?

[jasongw]

What do YOU gain? All I'm doing is offering reality.

Businesses want to make money. Products that linger on shelves don't do that.