# Buying products before tariffs kick in **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936 "2024-12-20T17:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/41 "2025-04-25T18:04:02Z")
If you expect to need tires in the next 12 months, I’d buy them, if not install, now. My employer is getting the anticipated vendor notifications of price hikes and surcharges that haven’t yet hit the price lists but will. Soon. Early next week. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/42 "2025-04-26T19:27:42Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I want my mom to start wearing an Apple Watch. She has finally agreed to buy one, but she keeps waiting for “the sales.” I don’t know how to convince her that they’re not going to go on sale. [This](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Smartwatch-Midnight-Aluminum-Detection/dp/B0DGJ736JM/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=ID5UY2BMXPH9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.W0C8HpHfqlswaL8rsSAiI3f53u_SXseSjur9m-YC4THi6Oc74JGUw_q_mSmsGNyy-9Pk7Af7yNG8oe8x0saqT-qLHsoLPyWYDOT5dnM79LKV_LnnbBdyt8sMrTPo3cfGUqoNswsXPv6dWfQUqHiRfF2c1_SE_9k9kLc42-yXNRWwmFS3yqwSBaEzuNz4LsfaYVBVhcIQlIc1MEKdiL87PRXv2J8vCK3DVuqiBcaDBFI.g8UgqvT8oO0t37TB-gnxedqXY3GVHKAHn1uKjEz-1M4&dib_tag=se&keywords=apple%2Bwatch&qid=1745695528&sprefix=apple%2Bwatch%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1) is about the best price you’re gonna get on an apple watch these days. I just bought this one, and I don’t like apple products, but their watches work well. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/43 "2025-04-29T22:11:53Z")
Play pictures/Artwork so you don’t have a huge black hole in the wall. My wife and I love this. Screen savers basically. We just moved into a house nearly twice as big as our current one. So we are tryin to get ahead of the tariffs. Some things work, some are a swing and a miss. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/44 "2025-04-29T22:29:54Z")
Samsung has an [entire line](https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-frame/) of flat-screen TVs that are designed to look like framed artwork. Obviously, you could display artwork on any TV but these are designed to look more like a framed painting or poster than most. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/45 "2025-04-29T23:02:18Z")
Yeah, Geek Squad guy told me about that. And said that they are trying to limit other images on a regular flat screen to get you to buy the ‘Art’ TV’s, but I don’t know how that would work. Would have to be some firmware I suspect. Still, I can find some nice suff. I’m not in the Geek Squad, I’m part of the Nerd Herd. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/46 "2025-04-29T23:28:28Z")
I finally got tired of the crappy string trimmer I’ve been using. I dreaded what the prices of new (battery powered) ones might be. I bit the bullet and checked online. Hmm, those prices seem pretty good. Checking CamelCamelCamel revealed it was the lowest price ever. Made in China. It arrived last night. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936/47 "2025-04-30T20:23:16Z")
Customs hasn’t caught up yet. But, they will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-products-before-tariffs-kick-in/1011936.md?page=2)