Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 days agoI’m not totally sure how those lease programs to companies work. Once the laptops are replaced, I know some of them will obviously be unusable and have to be destroyed. But there should be laptops that are in perfectly fine condition. And what happens to those if they get put on the second hand market you could buy them from their and the company paid the “new” tax. Now to make up for that, the company could either raise their prices on their items or if they don’t want to lose sales, they could eat it.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
i work in refurbishment of the leased devices. basically laptops are either bought, or returned to a 3rd party business, to be processed and resold to a business who resells, or to another business that wants cheap devices .
these are businesses, there wont be a demand drop because business’ do not behave like consumers. a good chunk of them will at times, buy things they might not need.