Anyone else lose sleep last night from the Tariff News? | Selling

sin-n-dex · 2025-02-02T15:34:53.756000Z

I stayed up late last night because I was restless and the forum was giving me comfort (because I know I'm not alone in this situation), and finally fell asleep after midnight. At 4am I was awake again and unable to get back to sleep. My brain is on a hamster wheel going around in circles of different scenarios of the tariff problem, and every time I think of a solution, I think of another problem it will cause. The two solutions (if I have a choice) are to either ship from Canada, or ship from the US. Each one has it's benefits, but each one has a problem. Ship from Canada, the buyer might have to pay tariffs and wait a long time for their package (which will result in a lot of INRs), ship from the US with a cross border shipper (if that's even an option, I'm thinking they're going to be collecting tariffs) and then for sure I will have to pay tariffs and give up 75% of my profit to the US government. It's a problem where every solution stinks. I thought about changing the inventory in my store, but what do I do with the rest of the inventory? I got my Canadian eBay account back up and running (with no listings yet, this is an account on the .ca site), but that's not a perfect solution for many reasons. No matter how I look at it, there's lots of work to be done, updating listings for one. I have software which will do that fairly quickly, but on 12K listings it will still take a few full days of babysitting the computer. My plan for now is to wait a few days and see what happens. I don't think they thought this through, and I don't want my packages to be lost at Customs as they try to figure out how to tariff every single one. There has to be some changes for the better down the pipeline, but it might be a long wait to get there. Anyway these are just my random thoughts. I haven't been feeling so great this weekend and this forum has been helpful to stay connected to other Canadian sellers faced with the same plight. C.

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