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@AmazonAndrew @cre_cashflow What’s up @amazonAndrew? Funny running into you here. Have your wife become a “real estate professional,” cost seg your real estate to accelerate depreciation and write off all of your depreciation against all of your income. Great if planning to hold your real estate long term.

@cre_cashflow Is there a best real estate strategy for someone with very high W2 income? Would prefer commercial.

Ok I’ve got some time to kill. 27 years in commercial real estate and I currently own a $110 million portfolio of retail, light industrial, and neighborhood office. What questions can I answer for you?

@cre_cashflow @shawngorham @grok what is neighborhood retail?

@shawngorham I like neighborhood retail and small tenant light industrial in the southeast. But anything that is value add in primary markets with strong population growth should be good long term

@DiamondandSilk @grok why are all Diamond and silk posts duplicated and attached to one another?

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@ShinghiD @amznsellerhelp @CBP @USTradeRep Other than out of the goodness of their hearts, I don’t know why Amazon would care if Chinese companies (or any other company for that matter) cheat on tariffs. It keeps their leadership as the low priced marketplace. They stand to win from the fraud.

Amazon @amznsellerhelp can you please set up some sort of initiative with @CBP @USTradeRep to prevent tariff evasion fraud? This creates a massive unlevel playing field which advantages fraudsters over honest companies playing (and paying) by the rules.

@BlackLabelAdvsr This badge has been around for several months, but they are becoming more common. Brutal conversion killer on our #1 selling product. Our top competitors have the badge as well. However, the lower volume sellers do not have this badge. Pretty sure it’s not based on % of sales.

Amazon just launched a new conversion killer badge. If you were expecting some good news this morning, I'm sorry to disappoint you. It's more bad news for all of us. Amazon just rolled out a new "Frequently Returned" badge, and guess what? Amazon decided to place it above the fold. How much above the fold, you ask? Like it's one of the very first things customers see. If your listing gets slapped with this badge, prepare for the worst scenario possible. Plummeting conversion rates thanks to an ominous red badge that turns people off. I have seen some listings go from a 15% conversion rate to sub-5 %. It's not pretty. The bright red doesn't help either! There is "some" good news, though. So far, the badge is only showing for affected variations, so if you have a problem child, go ahead and turn off PPC for the variations that have the badge. I also think this might be a temporary badge since Amazon is testing it across their site on select 3P sellers. Who knows, it might not stick. One last tip. Even if you have not seen this badge show up on your listings, audit your reviews, owner manual, and physical packaging! Make sure that you are keeping your customers happy AND providing clarity. No more playing games with your hero image and the actual item arriving looking totally different. Have you seen this badge on your listings? If so, have you seen a dramatic impact?

@mikebeckhamsm @MbtHawk We’ve been predicting all of this in our internal talks. Plan A get stuff on the water at a loss/BE, hope negotiations get settled before products land, and have product available when competition runs out due to supply chain glut in China.

The trade war is setting up a supply chain disaster that could dwarf the chaos during COVID. Supply chains run on predictability. When things are stable, everything moves smoothly. But they’re also fragile—small disruptions don’t stay small. They compound as they ripple through the system. There’s a name for this: the bullwhip effect. Normally, the bullwhip starts with a shift in customer demand. This time, it’s coming from the manufacturing side. During COVID, supply chains essentially froze for about 30 days while the world held its breath. People did strange things, like hoarding toilet paper. But once it became clear the pandemic was manageable and governments started pumping in stimulus, companies scrambled to get products made and shipped. That short disruption triggered nearly two years of chaos—bankruptcies, empty shelves, and a system pushed to its breaking point. What’s happening right now could be worse. Most companies have stopped placing orders or shipping products affected by the new 145% tariffs. If you pulled the numbers, I’d bet payments from U.S. companies to Chinese manufacturers are down 95% year-over-year this past week. Everyone’s in survival mode. Companies are frantically trying to shift production out of China to countries like Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, India—anywhere they can reduce tariff exposure. A few are moving production back to the U.S., but for most, there’s no quick or cost-effective way to do that. Here’s just one example of how messy this will get: India is now seeing a huge influx of manufacturing demand. Even if they somehow find the labor and machinery to handle it—and even if their electrical grid can take the load—they still don’t have the infrastructure to move all these goods. Roads, rail, ports—it’s not there. And no one is centrally coordinating what India’s manufacturers are taking on. The result? Way too much product, and not nearly enough capacity to move it. Meanwhile, when these tariffs ease, there’s going to be a stampede to ship the backlog of goods sitting in China. But there won’t be enough ships. People underestimate how devastating it is when there’s a mismatch between available goods and shipping capacity. We live in a digital world where things feel instant, but in the physical world, your supply chain is only as fast as its weakest link. Remember when container prices spiked 10x in a matter of months? That’s how you get the lethal combo of inflation and small business bankruptcies. This time, the shipping crunch will be even worse. We’ve got Houthi pirates disrupting African routes, India competing for more ship capacity, and new regulations targeting Chinese vessels in the U.S. On top of that, companies won’t just be moving goods—they’ll be relocating massive manufacturing equipment and molds. As global trade realigns, all of that needs to be moved too. It’s a perfect storm. Right now, companies are stuck between a rock and a hard place: either buy inventory at a loss, or risk not being able to get inventory at all when the trade war cools off.

@mcuban @ShinghiD Amazon is quickly becoming a marketplace of cheap Chinese $1 store products. The quality brands (many also mfg in China, but using quality factories) are quickly being drown out by Chinese listings with fake photos and fake reviews. IMO Amazon is destroying its image as a result

Hey @ShinghiD , are importers from china going to be like drug dealers ? The tariffs are so high, that it’s worth taking the risk that the goods will be confiscated ? Just a cost of business ? Just ship to Amazon FBA and sell under your account that has absolutely no American nexus. You will be far cheaper than anyone else making here or there , because you under reported valuation and far under paid your tariffs And they can’t arrest you or fine you because you are somewhere in BF China. Worst they can do is confiscate your goods. Like they do to drug mules Did I get this right @ShinghiD or am I missing something ? Meanwhile all the American sellers of goods imported from China are getting fucked. Their shit is already on a boat coming here and they have to decide what they are going to do , tell their customers , tell their inventory financier , tell their employees, tell their landlord etc etc. Orif it’s not , they are in no mans land waiting to see what happens Meanwhile , Amazon could help by requiring USA credentials and banks for foreign importers which would give the Feds something more than the goods to confiscate @ShinghiD or any one dealing with this , please correct anything I got wrong

@mcuban @ShinghiD we’ve built a $35mil rev baby products brand. One of the largest baby brands built on Amazon and in the blink of an eye, we’re staring at complete destruction. Our competition? Chinese sellers that fake federal child testing reports, cheat on tariffs, and don’t pay taxes.

@mcuban @ShinghiD Until the importing loopholes are shut, the cheaters have the upper hand. It’s too easy and low risk for Chinese sellers to declare their goods at fake mfg prices. The consequences are too great for US companies to cheat. And DDP is a legal loophole that must be closed!

@michaelpatron0 @ajassy AMZ will hold prices to their suppliers as long as they can, likely extorting their suppliers because they know the suppliers can’t afford to lose AMZ as a customer. What’s the supplier’s alternative? Tell AMZ they won’t sell to them any longer? Margins crushed, BKs looming.

Really curious if @ajassy is going to force 1P sellers to hold pricing on products even though our cost is about to go up by 15-30% because of tariffs.

@michaelpatron0 A bigger concern is that our competitors that sell 1P will have a tough time raising prices to AMZ and that AMZ will keep prices lower for longer than 3P sellers can afford to. AMZ is in a power position w/ their suppliers. No way suppliers will be able to pass on tariffs to AMZ.

@michaelpatron0 We ran tests a couple weeks ago with price increases (just to cover 20% tariffs) across the board and sales sunk dramatically cuz of crossing numerous psychological price thresholds. We figure we’re stuck until our lower priced competitors raise their prices.

Tariff Math: 150+ items ranging from cheap to expensive. As of now, my total COGs will go up by 37% on average. This factors in current ex rate at 7.27 and container shipping costs of 4.4K so the plan is to raise prices by the amount in column X. Since Amazon hates...

@ShinghiD @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @howardlutnick @mcuban The first thing the increased tariff revenue needs to be spent on is increased auditors to crack down on the bad actors that skirt the system in all the ways you mentioned. There is so much fraud in the system from importers (Chinese and American) that know the risk is so low.

Chinese Sellers on Amazon are going to cheat and lie to the US government to avoid tariffs. Here's a thread on 12 ways they will do it 🧵👇 @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @howardlutnick @mcuban

@facebook @Meta our entire team has lost access to our page facebook.com/hiccapop. I am one of the founders & created this FB page in 2016. We have 12k followers, an ad account and talk to customers through Messenger regularly. How can I regain access to our business page? HELP

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A home away from home. Pool table, big screen TV, poker table. Would you buy or lease one of these?

@ChrisRamsey60 I always prefer to own my real estate vs lease. I’d imagine there would be hefty HOAs on these properties as well. Most people using this kind of space can afford the $300kish to own, yet on the other hand they may prefer the cash for another toy and prefer the lease.

@ChrisRamsey60 I’ve seen it done both ways.

@ChadGriffiths and @ChrisRamsey60 it looks like you guys already know each other. I would love for you to bring Chris on your podcast, Chad. So many questions! 😎

@SasanATL @ChrisRamsey60 I would imagine they would be ideal for Amazon sellers. That’s my “real job” and when we were small, this would have been perfect. Small office and storage where trucks could pull up to pick up and unload pallets. Wonder if a community forklift would be a great amenity.

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