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re: If you’re shopping for the holidays, start now
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:24 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:24 pm to OMLandshark
Most of my business is based on overseas products and everything keeps getting pushed back more and more.
I don't doubt this. I've been trying to get set up with a certain brand and they have said they aren't taking new accounts until July 2022.
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Some of my customers have said they’re on backorder through (I shite you not) July of 2022
I don't doubt this. I've been trying to get set up with a certain brand and they have said they aren't taking new accounts until July 2022.
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Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:27 pm to OMLandshark
Another example of poor economic policy from 80s-90s screwing up policy by creating an environment where we are dependent upon China. You can also place blame on corporate tax rates getting reduced in the 80s below small business rates destroying family businesses and creating higher barriers for entrepreneurs. This allowed for capital flight to large entities squeezing out main street. I blame lawyers and politicians. Cheap labor from south America would not only be logistically cheaper but we would also be in a better place.
Excessive greed is bad for the economy.
Excessive greed is bad for the economy.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:29 pm to noonan
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I don't doubt this. I've been trying to get set up with a certain brand and they have said they aren't taking new accounts until July 2022.
Also keep in mind, I heard that a month and a half ago. It’s probably even worse now. The standard I’m hearing in my industry is March/April of next year, but those mother frickers are awesome and kill it, and are rightly livid over this.
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:34 pm to OMLandshark
So also what you are saying is I should load up on toilet paper and other items like I did in February of last year. I was 6 weeks ahead of all the crap. One of my few predictions came true. I had 96 of the biggest rolls of toilet paper delivered to my door along with several other stuff. I was about 3 months in dating a girl and my protective instincts were in full swing. That toilet paper move secured the relationship and we are still together.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:34 pm to OMLandshark
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A backlog of cargo ships waiting to get into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are helping drive up the cost of goods and services during the pandemic. A record 70 cargo ships
Among those 70 ships are close to a dozen sets of D6R and D6T track link assemblies I’ve been waiting on for over a month.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:38 pm to OMLandshark
interesting observation, thanks for posting
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:39 pm to OMLandshark
Joe Biden's America.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:41 pm to Abstract Queso Dip
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So also what you are saying is I should load up on toilet paper and other items like I did in February of last year.
We make toilet paper here. I wouldn’t worry about that one specifically. It’s the shite that involves anything abroad, specifically anything that involves a computer chip, you need to be worried about.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:42 pm to ShoeBang
quote:Ditto. I called customers telling them weeks ago "I have it NOW. Order NOW." Those that ignored me are now calling me and I'm telling them, "I tried to warn you. You are looking at probably January, maybe February."
My overseas shipments have gone from 6-8 weeks to 12-14 weeks, if I’m lucky.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:46 pm to HubbaBubba
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:50 pm to Obtuse1
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saying no to foreign-sourced goods is a good mission in my mind.
Tell that to every O/G or chemical facility in the USA until you’re blue in the face, and it won’t matter.
Bottom line is everything, as long as the product works and has the right certs
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:52 pm to OMLandshark
Who cares if the country is going to shite? There’s no mean tweets out there anymore from that Orange bastard so liberals can’t get their feelings hurt.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:53 pm to OMLandshark
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Xi Jinping has probably multiple times gotten pissed at Gavin Newsom
Aren't Chinese ports in a backlog too because of the typhoon in July and a positive COVID case at one of the ports?
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:53 pm to HubbaBubba
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Ditto. I called customers telling them weeks ago "I have it NOW. Order NOW." Those that ignored me are now calling me and I'm telling them, "I tried to warn you. You are looking at probably January, maybe February."
I did the same with my customers. And I told them a month ago to start ordering what they need for December now while there's stock.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 10:55 pm to crazy4lsu
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Aren't Chinese ports in a backlog too because of the typhoon in July and a positive COVID case at one of the ports?
The later I can assure you isn’t true since men and the elderly dying in their country the CCP thinks is a good thing, but haven’t heard all that much about the typhoon. If it had any factor, the backlog I’d reason means it had little to do with it. The backlog long preceded that.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:04 pm to OMLandshark
The typhoon in July closed two of their largest ports recently. And going by this article about a COVID case LINK, part of one port was closed. There was a video that showed how backed up their ports are but I can't find it at the moment.
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 11:05 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:07 pm to noonan
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We only ship empty cargo ships to China.
Maybe we should fill it with Haitians
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:07 pm to Obtuse1
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This is a good excuse to buy US produced goods versus foreign particularly Chinese goods. I understand this is difficult to impossible in some sectors including children's toys but saying no to foreign-sourced goods is a good mission in my mind.
Are there products that are US made that don't have some sourcing of materials from overseas? I've exclusively bought US-made clothing and items for a long time, and the products that could be sourced entirely from materials made in the US seems rare.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:10 pm to crazy4lsu
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And going by this article about a COVID case LINK, part of one port was closed. There was a video that showed how backed up their ports are but I can't find it at the moment.
I just don’t believe them when they say they remotely value human life. The type of person that would work at a port they want to die to help out the disproportionate population. The beginning of the pandemic I think they were trying to save face with the hardcore restrictions. From what I know of them, I have an exceptionally hard time believing they’d leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table for a few dock workers lives (which let’s face it they probably didn’t die on mass from this disease).
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 11:11 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:21 pm to noonan
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We only ship empty cargo ships to China.
meh thats not true
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