Want List Of Imported Items To Purchase Before New Year.

[Provincial]

Wal Mart will have increased costs for their China garbage products. That should affect profitability and stock price.

 

[Nosferatu]

Not being bound by endless consumerism, I doubt I'll notice much of a difference. I will not be panic buying anything.

 

[arakboss]

Wal Mart will have increased costs for their China garbage products. That should affect profitability and stock price.

The dollar tree stores might have to become the two dollar tree stores

 

[64MercurysRule]

The dollar tree stores might have to become the two dollar tree stores

And if it becomes too cost prohibited there will grab and dash happening making it The Dollar FREE store .

 

[P7M13]

With prices on imported items likely to rise in 2025, what items are you hoping to purchase before prices rise.

Mail order bride.

 

[64MercurysRule]

They're having a clearance sale .......

 

[made in china]

I wouldn't be worried about the tariffs as much as what we are losing in WA state with the recent hard left outcome of our state elections

Tariffs on cheap Chinese stuff is the least of my concerns. I'm moving to a Red State as soon as my son goes to college

 

[Stomper]

I guess for me it would just be a new wife as I just got a new/used fridge and fixed my dishwasher and dryer. Oh and also a giant Zero Foxtrot Logo sticker for my new black fridge that will cover the entire front of it as my house is a bachelor pad and I do not have a wife to tell me I can't do that...

If anyone knows the best place to import those let me know, I am quite frugal though/borderline cheapskate.

Sounds like Thailand is the place you need to look.....


Just make sure to "look under the hood" before you go "all in" to make sure they aren't a Thai ladyboy.

 

[dude686]

The wife wants a new fridge/freezer for the kitchen. I fixed the old one but she doesn't trust it or my repair job. I am guessing most of those are imported so we may end up with a new fridge as well.

Real talk, considering I just went through the new fridge/appliance fiasco...my $4500 French door bottom freezer top of the line Kenmore peekadoor (absolute trash) only lasted just under 4 years before the compressor went out and would be a "$1500" fix. Recharging a new compressor was a bit beyond my basic skills so I called a repairman who was super cool, and gave me some great advice and knowledge.

Very long story short as we spent like 2 hours bs'ing, the only brand fridge you want to buy is a GE (they still make some models in the US at their plant in the East), and never buy a fridge with the icemaker in the fridge compartment/door. Ice maker in the freezer compartment is ok...if you can go without the water dispenser too that is best, like anything in life the less moving the parts the better. Also ensure the fridge runs on R134 refrigerant and not the new R600.

I was gonna trash my dishwasher and fix my fridge, repairman told me the opposite lol and wrote up his quote and then told me to throw the fridge in the garbage.

I fixed my dishwasher for $80 with a new control board off ebay, and had Kaddy Appliance deliver a new basic bubblegum bottom freezer GE for under $600 that including delivery and haul away of my old one.

Good luck, appliance's suck!

 

[arakboss]

Real talk, considering I just went through the new fridge/appliance fiasco...my $4500 French door bottom freezer top of the line Kenmore peekadoor (absolute trash) only lasted just under 4 years before the compressor went out and would be a "$1500" fix. Recharging a new compressor was a bit beyond my basic skills so I called a repairman who was super cool, and gave me some great advice and knowledge.

Very long story short as we spent like 2 hours bs'ing, the only brand fridge you want to buy is a GE (they still make some models in the US at their plant in the East), and never buy a fridge with the icemaker in the fridge compartment/door. Ice maker in the freezer compartment is ok...if you can go without the water dispenser too that is best, like anything in life the less moving the parts the better. Also ensure the fridge runs on R134 refrigerant and not the new R600.

I was gonna trash my dishwasher and fix my fridge, repairman told me the opposite lol and wrote up his quote and then told me to throw the fridge in the garbage.

I fixed my dishwasher for $80 with a new control board off ebay, and had Kaddy Appliance deliver a new basic bubblegum bottom freezer GE for under $600 that including delivery and haul away of my old one.

Good luck, appliance's suck!

Good info. We might look at this one.

https://www.costco.com/ge-21.9-cu.-ft.-top-freezer-refrigerator.product.100976665.html?preselect=color%3astainless+steel

 

[dude686]

Good info. We might look at this one.

https://www.costco.com/ge-21.9-cu.-ft.-top-freezer-refrigerator.product.100976665.html?preselect=color%3astainless+steel

Nice, that is basically what I got just older and used, and black lol!

This is a good watch too that kinda reinforced what the repair dude told me.

View: https://youtu.be/rKJgYVhZ6-w?si=IPOLbpPoNDt33rVv

 

[Stomper]

Nice, that is basically what I got just older and used, and black lol!

This is a good watch too that kinda reinforced what the repair dude told me.

View: https://youtu.be/rKJgYVhZ6-w?si=IPOLbpPoNDt33rVv

You should start an activist group and maybe call it, "BFM"... Black Fridges Matter.




I've repaired my LG French-door bottom freezer (water and ice in the door) a few times over the years. It's mainly been the evaporator fan motors that die. On a different occasion I had to wrap some steel wire around the defrost heating element under the evaporator coil and extend the wire down into the drain pan drain-port so the heated wire would keep the drain port from getting plugged with ice and overflowing water out the bottom door and onto our floors.

Don't EVEN get me started about replacing water pumps and wash-drum bearings in our LG front-loading washer, or replacing faulty burner high-limits and gas valves in our LG dryer over the last 16+ years that we've had them!

Coincidently, I just repaired one of my "salvaged freebie" commercial-grade (brand name is, "True") reach-in freezers yesterday.... R404A rig. It maintains a -13°F temperature.

I'm an HVAC, boiler and refrigeration mechanic by trade, so I have the tools and skills which are super-nice to have, and easily crosses over into a myriad of other disciplines.... and NO, I don't do residential work, phone consultations, or side-jobs so don't ask!

 

[P7M13]

They're having a clearance sale .......

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I don't want to see the one you got.

Don't EVEN get me started about replacing water pumps and wash-drum bearings in our LG front-loading washer, or replacing faulty burner high-limits and gas valves in our LG dryer over the last 16+ years that we've had them!

My LG made Kenmore washer was sheite. After the 2nd controller board died, I got rid of it for a bottom of the line Electrolux.

 

[dude686]

You should start an activist group and maybe call it, "BFM"... Black Fridges Matter.




I've repaired my LG French-door bottom freezer (water and ice in the door) a few times over the years. It's mainly been the evaporator fan motors that die. On a different occasion I had to wrap some steel wire around the defrost heating element under the evaporator coil and extend the wire down into the drain pan drain-port so the heated wire would keep the drain port from getting plugged with ice and overflowing water out the bottom door and onto our floors.

Don't EVEN get me started about replacing water pumps and wash-drum bearings in our LG front-loading washer, or replacing faulty burner high-limits and gas valves in our LG dryer over the last 16+ years that we've had them!

Coincidently, I just repaired one of my "salvaged freebie" commercial-grade (brand name is, "True") reach-in freezers yesterday.... R404A rig. It maintains a -13°F temperature.

I'm an HVAC, boiler and refrigeration mechanic by trade, so I have the tools and skills which are super-nice to have, and easily crosses over into a myriad of other disciplines.... and NO, I don't do residential work, phone consultations, or side-jobs so don't ask!

Hey if you're not busy later...

 

[Stomper]

Hey if you're not busy later...

That's the thing... I'm ALWAYS frikken busy!!

I'm on-call 24/7 (yes they pay me VERY WELL for that, whether I get called out or not), and 12am I got a call-out for downed rooftop boilers at a 20-story hotel in downtown PDX.... fixed the boilers and got home at 5:30am... the overtime pay alone more than paid for me taking yesterday (Friday) off.

It sucks, but it has some good perks... 4-day weekend!

 

[HiFi Magnetics]

Smart People!!!!!
Just bought some extra electron tubes since this is not manufacture in US yet.

 

[albin25]

Ukrainian Nannie's?

 

[HiFi Magnetics]

Just a heads up. If anyone needs to impulse something from overseas, I'd do it soon.. When it hits December 5, that's when holiday traffic jam starts. There might be a slim chance getting your package on a timely manner.