I agree, but that veering is moderator-approved, except when such approval is rolled back and the posts are deleted.
I’ll be taking some pictures today using pre-retaliatory tariff film and vintage analog camera. Yippee! Rejoice!!
that veering is moderator-approved
All of this tariff stuff is in a state of flux and will be for the foreseeable future. Just because they add 10% tariff does not mean I will be paying 10% more. Sometimes the seller will absorb some of the tariff and the added cost will be less that the 10%. I thought we would be looking at new tariffs 2 years ago depending how the political winds blew and started looking at Kodak Tmax films with that in mind. I do not have anything against Ilford at all. They make great products, but I am on a pension so I have to watch my costs. I now mix all of my chemistry that I can and have simplified on Tmax 100 and 400. I also stocked up on raw chemicals to hedge against further price increases. I think that any tariff that is added will not be permanent. That too will pass.
Anybody have a sense of what will happen to raw chemicals for those of us making our own developers, hand coating, etc?
I now live in New Jersey. It's the only state in the USA that does not allow patrons to pump their own gas. Other states either have pump your own only lines or pump your own or have an attendant do it it for higher cost per gallon. When I drive to other states and need gas, I;ve often pulled up to the pump and waited minutes for the attendant before remembering I have to pump it myself.
Think of the moderator's view of this thread as if we were all parents and the thread was the smell of a soiled (photographic) diaper.
Not approved of - but sometimes one has to deal with these things - mainly because the rest of the places in the world that are discussing this won't bother to touch on the effects on photography!
Perhaps “tolerated” would have been a better word choice.
That's exactly what Greg was implying in post 364. Yes, that is a function that most, if not all, international shipping companies offer. Have you not seen the periodic threads with gripes about shippers like that and their exorbitant processing fees and (not of their doing) import duties? How have you not noticed these discussions?; they seem to come up on a regular basis.
If anything I would expect prices could drop. It seems China had an overproduction of chemicals even before the US tariff bonanza. But it only takes a tweet to change everything these days, so who knows.
No, it most definitely is not. The fact that we don't delete everything doesn't mean we approve of it. Sometimes we let it slip - sometimes we're just not around for a minute, and sometimes we just tolerate some degree of transgression of forum rules so we don't have to cut the entire thing short altogether, sometimes we'd rather remove some bits but as the discussion has proceeded, it'd be a lot of work to do a neat job so we just move on.
Don't mistake a lack of intervention for approval. And for that matter, don't mistake a moderator posting in a thread as approval that everything posted in the thread is A-OK.
Ebay does not & errors occur. Here's the catch with international sales & why i avoid buying from EBay sellers in the USA. Ebay charges for shipping....and ships through their midwest hub...from which the box is sent on to customs in Ontario. There the box can languish for weeks (or disappear)...then it gets transferred to DHL Canada...who contacts me with an amount owing if i ever want to see the goods..once paid, the closer it gets to me DHL may offload to a local delivery service... A real nightmare.
It appears to me that most of the slips are on one side of the political spectrum, negative against tariffs and the people who impose them.
You have a good strategy for you location. I just avoid eBay except when I can find no other alternative.
You've got to be kidding me. I'm not even going to seriously respond to this kind of idiotic statement.
That was also the reason I didn't respond.I don't respond to personal attacks.
That was also the reason I didn't respond.
For the record, yours was truly an idiotic statement as the 'debate' on the tariffs has been exclusively one-sided as far as I can tell. So any slippage will automatically be one-sided, simply because conflicting opinions were not even posted. That's what made that statement so ridiculous and evidently intended only to create bad air - i.e. trolling.
But the conclusion is clear. We need to crack down harder on this kind of thing. It's evident that some people will abuse any kind of slippage in this area and that's exactly what the no politics rule is intended to prevent.
The problem is not because of politics per se, rather the cause by the ones who post political statements.
Thanks both. It has been close to 10 years since I shipped anything in a professional setting (ie for work), so I'm a bit foggy if I had to deal with this then. The last time I shipped anything at all to the UK was 6 years ago and that was a bunch of gifts for a coworker. I do recall filling out a customs declaration for that, but it was pretty straightforward.
Chris
That is a surprise to me as a U.K. resident. We've been self service for what seems forever but certainly well over 20 years
pentaxuser
I think it is well s over 20 years ago they allowed self service. I believe they said it would also mean cheaper petrol for the motorist as they did not have to employ/pay forecourt staff
We were lied to--again...
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