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• ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
  I think the tariffs are going to hit the small producers really hard and I can imagine that anyone that has already got the game being manufactured (e.g. in China) will then be bankrupted by the sudden extra costs of getting the product into the USA - I'm thinking of KickStarter games where they've already worked out the prices (and been paid) and have no practical means of recovering increased costs. Maybe some companies will just dump the manufacturing run and choose bankruptcy instead - better than losing more money over just trying to get the goods into the country.
  • dtagames 2y ago
    Very true. A couple years ago I designed a custom card game and had it manufactured in China, just a small run. It was already hard to make any profit on a small indie item like that. A bigger tarrif would have priced me out completely when the consumer looks at the price of Uno on the shelf that MB can make for $1/deck and I can't get anywhere near that.