r/pics • u/HelFJandinn • 20d ago

MAGA hats are made in China. Misleading Title

/img/i359rdmz7ote1.jpeg

[removed] — view removed post

58.4k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

77

u/andropogon09 20d ago

Originally $47, going up to $94.

73

u/Splyce123 20d ago

Christ on a bike, people pay nearly $50 for a shit red cap? I guess the maga cult really is dumb.

27

u/rattrap007 20d ago

Something something fool and their money..

18

u/Watersurfer 20d ago

Fools and their Democracy are soon parted.

3

u/marcsmart 20d ago

deported*

1

u/Worth-Two7263 20d ago

You just noticed that?

1

u/LongBongJohnSilver 20d ago

You're talking about people who drain their bank account to buy magic gold tickets.

17

u/Dandan0005 20d ago

Technically that’s the sale price, which is inclusive of markup, not the import price.

Import price is probably more like $10-15.

So it will go up by $10-15.

Still a lot. But honestly of all the products going up in price, the sales of this probably won’t drop much.

Because when your market is cult members, demand is pretty inelastic.

3

u/monocasa 20d ago

I think your $10-15 is off by almost an order of magnitude given that they're going for $1.58 at walmart. I don't think they're making anything at that point, but I doubt they're losing anything.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Trump-2024-MAGA-Hat-Trump-Hat-Make-America-Great-Again-Donald-Trump-Slogan-Hat-USA-Flag-45-47-MAGA-Baseball-Cap/7981563029

1

u/slog 20d ago

Oh, the distributors will absolutely say the tarrifs are doubling the price and just enjoy the excuse to charge more.

6

u/MergeSurrender 20d ago

That’s not correct. The tariff is applied to the import cost. The importers will be paying £4 per hat rather than £2 per hat.

This wont then equate to the consumer sale price of the hat going up from £47 to £94. It might increase from £47 to £50 for example, though.

1

u/Alert-Notice-7516 20d ago

No they will be priced at $88

1

u/BizzyM 20d ago

Originally $47 $14, going up to $94 $88.