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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    I may don’t know how the law works but I believe (at least in my country) if you agree on the conditions you can’t pull a Darth Vader and alter the conditions after signing/ordering and paying.

    Now if there is a clause that states otherwise this may change.

    But I agree, at least they are open and upfront with it.

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      23 hours ago

      They are not changing anything. They are warning the customer import charges wil incur if the purchase proceeds. They gain nothing and stand to lose a sale.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Doesn’t matter on their end. If they wanted to they could ship it and let it get held up by customs with a demand to pay the tariff to release it.

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      23 hours ago

      Import duties are not always part of the agreement.

      They didn’t change the rules, there is now a charge by the government on it getting delivered, not by the company.

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        23 hours ago

        I would change “not always” to “practically never”. Every e-commerce site I have ever used warns you that you are responsible for import duties if shipped internationally.

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      23 hours ago

      The doctrine is called force majeure. Most contracts have a force majeure clause.

      If an external factor makes a contract impossible as agreed, the contract can be made void under force majeure. This is very common, and suddenly applied tariffs would likely be covered by a force majeure clause because neither party were responsible for them.