Are you buying now because you anticipate higher prices?

[Mort]

I'm buying more now, within my economic limits of course. My expectation is prices will rise on the gear I like (Genelec, Philharmonic Audio, MiniDsp, Wiim - the usual suspects). Especially the used market, which I think is very underpriced.

Try to avoid political discussion? I'm more curious about purchasing behavior.

 

[RayDunzl]

Are you buying now because you anticipate higher prices?

I don't really need to buy anything, so, no.

 

[Esprit]

No.

 

[Power Pop 23]

No. I have enough sources,amplification and loudspeakers to effectively act as a hedge against the additional cost of tariffs. This was not my intention when purchasing.

 

[Tom C]

I have some major purchases planned for the next year, but won’t spend the money until I have to. That’s my rule of thumb. Don’t spend anything until you have to.

 

[Gitfiddle]

Pretty much everyone I know starting buying the things that they wanted/needed (but had been holding off on) back in November through January. 4 people I know bought cars. Lots of people got new TV's and phones.

I personally made some audio purchases in that time frame that I had been considering for quite some time. They were purchases I would have made anyway, but decided to buy sooner rather than later. I didn't buy anything super fancy, but I feel like it was ~$400 well spent since I was able to replace some very bad gear I had been using since before 2010.

 

[Mort]

No.

Doesn't count if you are already endgame.

 

[_timo_redux_]

I have 10? 12? year old LS-50s with a perhaps-somewhat underpowered amp (Peachtree Decco2); I've been saving my pennies for upgrading to Genelecs, 8331s, or maybe 8341s.

 

[Esprit]

Doesn't count if you are already endgame.

I'm not at all at the end of the game.
First I have to sell...

 

[Salt]

Bought a waxwing via Amazon early this year. It is now no longer available on .de, so a good decision.

 

[Martin]

You should see my toilet paper hoard.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Can't afford to.

 

[DVDdoug]

If I was in the market for something "big" and imported YES I'd probably buy it now.

If I was selling, I'd jack-up the price now! Maybe sell it now in the frenzy or sell it later.

You should see my toilet paper hoard.

That's what I was thinking... I never understood the TP panic. (But it did stock-up a little bit at the time.)

 

[levimax]

My experience is that predicting the future is a fool's errand. I could see scenarios with higher prices, lower prices, or prices staying the same.

 

[AaronJ]

I bought 4 bottles of my favorite Scotch in case there are any disruptions in the supply chains, but otherwise not planning on making any other purchase because of possible price increases.

 

[holbob]

I'm buying more now, within my economic limits of course. My expectation is prices will rise on the gear I like (Genelec, Philharmonic Audio, MiniDsp, Wiim - the usual suspects). Especially the used market, which I think is very underpriced.

Try to avoid political discussion? I'm more curious about purchasing behavior.

 

[JustJones]

No, I can't say that I am planning on any purchases other than perhaps switching streaming services.

 

[ta240]

That's what I was thinking... I never understood the TP panic. (But it did stock-up a little bit at the time.)

The panic was crazy; however, prior to that we tended to buy just what we needed for the following week. Although we don't hoard anything, we definitely have a longer supply of things on hand now. I won't be waiting until I'm on my last roll to buy TP ever again, and 'we are out of food, we need to go shopping' no longer means we literally have nothing left to eat in the house.

 

[ta240]

My experience is that predicting the future is a fool's errand. I could see scenarios with higher prices, lower prices, or prices staying the same.

I was looking at used cars when Covid hit and when prices jumped about a grand I famously said "I'll wait for them to come back down" as I watched them hit $6,000-$10,000 higher than they originally were. Fortunately my car lasted through it (still going with 330,000 miles), but a lot of the prices didn't seem to go back to the pre-Covid levels

There seems to be a point where everyone involved decides that if people were willing to pay more for stuff, then maybe they will continue to do that. While the spikes in prices settled the overall prices didn't ever seem to go back to where they were before the increase. There seemed to be the thinking of "We can get employees and we can get supplies now, but how about you just keep paying $14 for a sandwich".

Our grocery store used to be about 5% more expensive than Walmart but after the crazy shortage prices settled most things are much more than that and some items are 100% more. They went with "people are used to paying $5 for a can of soup so why go back to $3?"

 

[Snarfie]

In Europa i guess price going rather down than up taking in account brands like Topping try to find other sales channels.