Aren’t tariffs hitting across the board on electronics? Costco is still selling computers, phones, televisions, and other consoles. Seems like this is very much a branding thing.
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
This likely has nothing to do with the ongoing brand problems.
Microsoft have increasingly been threatening massive price hikes because of “tariffs”. Costco doesn’t want to deal with an expensive but also volatile item.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Depends not only on today’s date, but subject to hourly change. At least the fascism is logical if you want to take total power, but the business decisions coming out of the White House are ludicrous.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Sony already raised the prices of playstations in the US, citing tariffs as the reason.
artyom@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Not sure what you mean. Sony already is. Costco can choose to absorb those costs just as easily as they expect MS and Sony to do.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Not to the degree MS is expected to.
The next generation is going to be a complete shitshow. But right now? Signs are that the PS5 will stay mostly stable whereas the xbox is going to get a head start on said shitshow.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You see the things is that the contacts for Costco are complicated AF. I use to work with Costco as a buyer of our stuff and they work at least a year ahead of what SKUs they are going for. They also have to do all the contacts about discounts and rebates and special program offers.
Not only that they also have a threshold that they need to sell before they even pay the vendor.
They held at least $1.5m from us and we didn’t get paid until May.
Costco and Amazon are complicated as hell to work with.
glimse@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
My friend’s dad owns a business (trade work, not even selling products) that has contracts with both Costco and Amazon and said the same thing. For Amazon at least, he can’t send proposals or bills - everything is done through an Amazon vendor portal. And he gets paid every time he crosses a threshold, not per job.
When you’re that big, you can just make everyone follow your rules.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I gotta make connections work with pretty much any retailer you can name. And yeah when the biggies say jump you gotta say how high.
That being said, Costco isn’t so bad. But then I don’t deal with the contract stuff. Amazon does indeed suck. Costco is a bit old school but I’d rather that than dealing with Amazon’s shitty AWS APIs.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Exactly and their portals are a fuckin disaster.