US Tariffs: $80-$200 Surcharge On All Packages Regardless of Price

[Agamon]

I, for one, was surprised that Critical Role has a Canadian store. Pleased, but surprised.

 

[Morrus]

I, for one, was surprised that Critical Role has a Canadian store. Pleased, but surprised.

Critical Role has stores? That I did not know!

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Critical Role has stores? That I did not know!

Online stores. They offer you to shop in CAD, which is really convenient. Even more so when so many TTRPG stores don't even specify the currency in which the product is offered. I see 30$ and I have no idea which dollars it is.

 

[soviet]

Most of my sales are from pdf, so that won't get hit. It would be amazing to get into the Asian market though.

Tariffs on PDFs are coming, bet

 

[Deset Gled]

Are you kidding? Because if you aren't, then I low-key want to see it...

It's one of the central pillars to Dune. "He who controls the spice controls the universe." What does the spice do? It's the critical component to intergalactic trade. The customs enforcers are the guildsmen.

For some reason Herbert though that focusing on war, religion, and giant worms was more interesting that the minutiae of tariffs, but there's a decent amount of politics based around trade throughout the books for those who are into that sort of thing.

 

[dragoner]

Tariffs on PDFs are coming, bet

Maybe. It is interesting to see the sales of books and pdf's worldwide.

 

[Morrus]

Online stores. They offer you to shop in CAD, which is really convenient. Even more so when so many TTRPG stores don't even specify the currency in which the product is offered. I see 30$ and I have no idea which dollars it is.

Oh, right. That's very different!

Most online store platforms support automatic currency conversion. Shopify, the most popular one in the world, makes it pretty easy. We use it, as do something like 70% of online stores!

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Most online store platforms support automatic currency conversion. Shopify, the most popular one in the world, makes it pretty easy.

It doesn't seem to be the same for every store.

Take MCDM's store, looking at the footer it does seem to be powered by Shopify.

It says 89$. Now, because I exchanged with the fine folks around here, I now know that that's CAD. But nowhere on the page does it says what currency it is. There's no currency selector at the top, I can't select my country. So I can take for granted that it knows I'm in Canada and that it's in CAD... and maybe have a surprise 30% bump? Now 89$ is pretty steep and I'd take for granted that it's CAD. But smaller purchases, like... let's say 20$ for a PDF. It could be either.

However, I do remember some shopify stores saying it clearly and others not. So I don't know if it's a feature they should activate.

 

[maeve]

However, I do remember some shopify stores saying it clearly and others not. So I don't know if it's a feature they should activate.

I'm not sure how it works on their end, but it is frustrating that some Shopify stores make me put an item in my cart and start checking out – at which point Shopify does reliably indicate the currency – to even know how much a purchase would cost me. This is such an obviously bad user experience. I don't know why Shopify doesn't list it on every product page (at least).

 

[chuckdee]

It's one of the central pillars to Dune. "He who controls the spice controls the universe." What does the spice do? It's the critical component to intergalactic trade. The customs enforcers are the guildsmen.

For some reason Herbert though that focusing on war, religion, and giant worms was more interesting that the minutiae of tariffs, but there's a decent amount of politics based around trade throughout the books for those who are into that sort of thing.

Yeah, I didn't mean the concepts - I meant doing it in 40k with all that entails. I realize that spice and interplanetary transport and the guilds are one interpretation- there are several in other book series. But 40k just hits different...