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373 points h2odragon | 2 comments | 19 Oct 24 17:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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rglullis ◴[19 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41889863[source]▶
I am seriously considering creating a dropship company focused exclusively on buying and selling electronic components that are sold for parts and people can assemble them at home, Ikea-style.

I would start with selling 50" and 65" inch "dumb" TVs. Just the panel, a nice enclosure and a board with an IR receiver, TV tuner and HDMI outputs. BYO top box and Soundbar. I wonder how fast it would take to get 10000 orders.

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mananaysiempre ◴[19 Oct 24 20:10 UTC] No.41890401[source]▶
The Framework folks hit an unexpected snag with a similar idea: turns out the US tax on a laptop assembled in Taiwan is much lower than on a box of parts made in Taiwan that you can assemble into a laptop yourself. (Why? Because.) Thus the strange not-really-DIY “DIY edition”.
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1. meindnoch ◴[19 Oct 24 22:27 UTC] No.41891274[source]▶
You mean import tax? Then the solution is simple: assemble a dummy device from the components, pay the lower import duties, and then disassemble it and sell the parts. This is called tariff engineering.
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2. jareklupinski ◴[20 Oct 24 02:40 UTC] No.41892489[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Circumventing_the_...