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    We're doomed!

    Not really but just to show how everything has distorted in the last 3 years today I discovered my long forgotten account at Northern Tool, recovered my password and went to my previous purchases. There was my 4' x 4' aluminum trailer ordered Dec 20/2019.

    Price? $289, a little more than half of today's price of $489. Shipping. $5. Not a misprint, Shipping cost today? Using 14303 as the destination the cost is $172, not using a truck with a rising ramp.

    I'm pretty sure the folding 5 x 8 trailer was $419 and shipping was again, $5.

    I'd love to get the 5 x 8 trailer now but $1,172 US is a whole lot of Canadian, roughly $1,650. I can buy brand new galvanized folding trailers up here for $1050 OTD. They weigh a bit more, 245 lb. vs 175 for the aluminum one. The weight of the Canadian trailer is making me shy from it and the cost of the US trailer drives me away.

    Anyhow, annoys me is the fact things have basically doubled in the last 3 years. AFAIK raw aluminum hasn't doubled. Wages in China haven't doubled. Tariffs and taxes are about the same. Consumers only have so much disposable income and all these greedy corporate creeps all want to be multi-billionaires on OUR backs.

    NO THANKS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wallythacker View Post
    Not really but just to show how everything has distorted in the last 3 years today I discovered my long forgotten account at Northern Tool, recovered my password and went to my previous purchases. There was my 4' x 4' aluminum trailer ordered Dec 20/2019.

    Price? $289, a little more than half of today's price of $489. Shipping. $5. Not a misprint, Shipping cost today? Using 14303 as the destination the cost is $172, not using a truck with a rising ramp.

    I'm pretty sure the folding 5 x 8 trailer was $419 and shipping was again, $5.

    I'd love to get the 5 x 8 trailer now but $1,172 US is a whole lot of Canadian, roughly $1,650. I can buy brand new galvanized folding trailers up here for $1050 OTD. They weigh a bit more, 245 lb. vs 175 for the aluminum one. The weight of the Canadian trailer is making me shy from it and the cost of the US trailer drives me away.

    Anyhow, annoys me is the fact things have basically doubled in the last 3 years. AFAIK raw aluminum hasn't doubled. Wages in China haven't doubled. Tariffs and taxes are about the same. Consumers only have so much disposable income and all these greedy corporate creeps all want to be multi-billionaires on OUR backs.

    NO THANKS.
    Elections have consequences. I am speaking for the States, but I don't know much about Canada's situation.

    Some of my best friends & one of my uncles & his best friends went to Canada every year (fishing trip once or twice a year). They have all stopped going there years ago (before COVID). The border just became more hassle than it was worth. The couple times I went up there we would be in the middle of nowhere in Ontario & there would be multiple vehicles parked at boat launch sites with Wisconsin plates.

    That reminds me - I need to renew my passport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark View Post
    Elections have consequences.

    multiple vehicles parked at boat launch sites with Wisconsin plates.

    That reminds me - I need to renew my passport.
    Consequences here too Mark, big ugly consequences from our last couple elections. Speaking of tourists where I went in ONTARIO during the summer more than half the cars had Ohio plates! I really felt like I was in America, lol.

    I have to do my passport also, two of them in fact, I'll ignore the third for now.
    Zero, 2014 ES Plus 5MT, written off but not forgotten.
    Zero II, 2014 SE, 5MT, climate She's HOME now!
    Shelby AKA "Cute", 2017 ES 5MT, A/C.

    Mirage owners look at the world differently than everyone else, but in a better way
    We're driving the Beetle of the 21st century, the greatest small car now available!

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        click to view fuel log View my fuel log 2017 Mirage ES PLus 1.2 manual: 39.0 mpg (US) ... 16.6 km/L ... 6.0 L/100 km ... 46.8 mpg (Imp)


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