The golden age of online shopping is over. Ian Bogost on how the end of a legal loophole could make purchase more expensive:
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Good thing I’m all stocked up on Labubus. Straight from Popmart in China to my front porch in less than a week.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
Online shopping is here to stay. The golden age of buying stuff you don’t need because it costs almost nothing may be over.
aug 31, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
I have no way to even cost my project out until the dust settles.
aug 31, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
Many small startups may not startup Because of this✋ Some products are not marketable at even a slightly higher price. This will kill a percentage of business.
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 am • 2 0 • view
Tariffs have that effect, yes
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t care, I buy from Amazon
aug 31, 2025, 5:14 am • 0 0 • view
Just when I needed 2 components from China to bring my product designed by me and assembled here by me to you. I am at the cost to build stage to determine if I can make for a marketable price that consumers here will pay. My prototype works. Now that work may be for not.
aug 31, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
So is the limit $200 or $0?
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view