Logitech Quietly Raises Prices By Up To 25% (9to5mac.com) 147
Logitech has quietly increased prices on several flagship products by as much as 25%, according to findings (video) by YouTuber Cameron Dougherty. The MX Master 3S mouse now costs $120, up 20% from its previous $100 price point, while the MX Keys S keyboard has jumped 18% to $130. The K400 Plus Wireless Touch keyboard saw the most dramatic percentage increase, rising from $28 to $35.
These price adjustments, implemented without formal announcement, come amid ongoing tariff pressures from the Trump administration affecting PC hardware manufacturers. Chinese electronics maker Anker also recently implemented similar increases, suggesting a broader industry trend.
These price adjustments, implemented without formal announcement, come amid ongoing tariff pressures from the Trump administration affecting PC hardware manufacturers. Chinese electronics maker Anker also recently implemented similar increases, suggesting a broader industry trend.
Winning... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Winning... (Score:5, Insightful)
Consumers in the rest of the world need to keep a close eye on this. If companies try to spread the cost of the Trump tariffs to us, we need to reject their products. Americans pay 100% of the cost, not us.
Sony is already trying it, so avoid their stuff.
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A few years back, I bought a Logitech Webcam (C920) for £20. Then we had lock downs, and the price zoomed (see what I did there?) upwards. A colleague of mine proudly told me he'd bought a 'pro' camera at the knock-down bargain price of £50. In fairness, they were selling for £75 in some places, so he got a good deal at the time, but had he bought it 6 months earlier, he could have had two for less than the price of one.
My point is, Logitech will absolutely put the price up to the highest
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Fair point, I do remember that. Luckily I had managed to get one before the pandemic too. It was something like £10 for a 1080p one, and it's actually quite decent in terms of picture and sound.
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What's crazy to me is that the C920 has been on the market for like a decade and nobody has developed a better "basic webcam" device to compete with it. Yes there are alternatives out there but the C920 still is sitting top of the pack in it's class. Unless you want to invest in a more prosumer setup with a mirrorless or similar camera, if you just want a straightforward "webcam" the answer is still a C920 (or a Logitech Brio)
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I used to have all-Logitech devices. Keyboard, headphones, webcam, mouse.
Now I only have the C920 and the G502 Lightspeed. The keyboard started suffering from ghost key issue (double-n, double-b), and the headphones, while still working, have severe issues with volume cutting out in one or both channels due to horrible on/off slider design, I had to constantly fiddle with it while using them.
I am now using a 10-year old Steelseries keyboard from another (now-decomissioned) PC, it's built like a tank. I splu
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And sometimes it's unavoidable. Some stuff has traditionally gone through the United States for shipment elsewhere.
It's a problem because if you want a PS5 in say, Canada, the boat could come from China, then land at the Port of LA, where it's assessed tarif
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A similar thing happened when the UK declared sanctions on itself with Brexit. Suddenly goods that were transported over land through the UK were being shipped directly to and from Ireland. The EU made sure that Ireland didn't get cut off or disadvantaged by our stupidity.
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Um, lorries paid road taxes through owning companies, and still do, therefore you are full of shit.
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There is direct trade between China and Canada. The general issue is that goods destined for both the US and Canada often get shipped to the US first - the US sales can fill containers, while Canadian orders for same generally don't, so it's generally been more efficient to ship to the US, break the container at the distribution center and ship the Canadian orders from there to either the Canadian
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Vancouver has a port. It is actually closer to China than LA. If you sail up the east coast of Asia and keep going, you will continue down the west coast of America.
Of course Canada has a much smaller population than the US, and you may not want to unload an entire container ship there and ship the bulk of it over land to the US, but unloading a few containers there and then taking the ship south could work.
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China and Canada are not on friendly terms.
You may recall something about Canadian citizens being held prisoner in China? Assassinations in Canada by Chinese Spies? Chinese "police stations" in Canada bullying Chinese-Canadian citizens?
Of course... that may all be preferable to dealing with the USA now. We have destroyed all our credibility and goodwill.
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In this situation, the corporations aren't the ones to blame. They never wanted these tariffs. Even most Trump voters didn't want tariffs, at least not as large as they turned out to be. This is all Trump.
The point is, the corporations like Logitech, are the victims here, not the perpetrators. Let's not punish them!
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Take the MX Keys S, cited in here as now costing $130, up from $110.
It costs £90 at John Lewis in the UK, or £100 at Amazon, both prices including 20% sales tax. On Logitech's own website, it is also £100.
£90 translates to about $120, or $100 excluding sales tax. The price at Amazon and Logitech, excluding sales tax, is about $110, same as the pre-tariff-hike price in the US.
So for now at least, it looks like they are not hiking prices in the UK.
Re:Winning... (Score:5, Funny)
"But Joe Biden:"
The cackling call of uneducated morons everywhere.
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You should be, after the last four years.
Keep pretending President Kackler would have made you feel like a winner with another $100 billion of your taxes going to Ukraine.
You misspelled Israel
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the aid we give israel is part of the peace accords that the US brokered almost 50 years ago. it's the same reason we give billions a year to egypt.
it's hardly a partisan issue decided by the president.
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the aid we give israel is part of the peace accords that the US brokered almost 50 years ago. it's the same reason we give billions a year to egypt.
it's hardly a partisan issue decided by the president.
Israel gets about $3.8 billion per year, and Egypt gets about $1.3 billion. Both mostly help Israel because it would be very detrimental for Israeli security for Egypt to be economically or militarily unstable. Israel can handle pounding on Gaza and Lebanon, but another war against Egypt is something that Israeli has to avoid.
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To be fair, MOST of the money spent in "foreign military assistance" is money spent on local arms suppliers, and works to keep the USA military equipment up to date and fresh and to keep the USA military industry humming along and benefiting from economics of scale.
Like the "poor folks food aid" (both foreign and domestic) is mostly subsidies to the American agricultural sector, foreign military aid is mostly subsidies to the American defence sector.
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israel has gotten more money than egypt since the beginning. both countries have been basically bribed by the US for almost 50 years to stick with the peace thing.
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which was put together by congress in a bipartisan bill. it's hardly a partisan issue decided by the president.
Re:Winning... (Score:4, Insightful)
1. who gives a shit how a president laughs
2. ukraine was, by military objective standards, the best bang for the buck we've ever had. we gave them a bunch of old equipment we wanted to replace and paid ourselves to make the new stuff.
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Uh, hold on.
We authorized shipping existing arms to Ukraine, yes - absolutely.
To replace those weapons we are paying American companies to replace them, yes -absolutely.
BUT, there's this awkward period of time between when we take the multi-million dollar weapons system out of storage and give it to Ukraine and when we put the new, latest-tech weapons system in the vacant storage space where we used to keep the old weapon system... During that period, which could be years, we are less prepared to fight a wa
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The old equipment will have to be destroyed anyway, as most of it has an expiration date. Explosives and especially propellants go bad with time, and require destruction and replacement.
That's expensive to do. Shipping them to a warzone to get used instead saves money.
And the replacement equipment was already in production long before the equipment was shipped to Ukraine. The US defense constantly rotates out old equipment and replace it. In practice, supporting Ukraine was extremely cheap, and immense bang
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It is a good thing we have you to explain "logistics" to the US Army! Those "experts" never would have thought of those problems on their own! /s
The US Military does not release old stock to Ukraine until it has new stock in hand. There is a certain level of "excess" stock that was available to ship immediately, but after the initial deliveries there were months of delays in delivering weapon supplies to Ukraine as we waited on US arms suppliers to deliver new weapons to US military stores BEFORE we relea
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Keep pretending President Kackler would have made you feel like a winner with another $100 billion of your taxes going to Ukraine.
Less than half of that is financial aid. Most of it is a subsidy for weapons manufacturers right here at home.
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Facts and reason do not matter to the indoctrinated cultist. The only thing that matters is parroting the same bullshit gaslighting talking points they receive from the propagandist enablers.
A lot of people are headed for a reckoning, and it's going to take decades to get past the level of psychological harm that has been done.
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Jesus if only we had a president who wasted $100bn on Ukraine to fight Russian oppression rather than a president who destroyed $10tr from the economy to fight his own lack of education in basic economics.
I wish we were in such a "bad" position.
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I think separating those two as if they were unconnected is either wrong or misleading, depending on your intent.
While it is true that inflation/higher interest rates/etc. will cause higher prices and so will higher tariffs, they aren't really separable.
A better idea (Score:4, Informative)
I'm sure they could leave the prices low and instead improve their margins with a subscription model for enabling the scroll wheel [arstechnica.com]. Win-win!
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hey that may work out for me, i havnt used any of the 15 buttons on my mouse ever, can i get some money back?
Tariff is such a beautiful word (Score:3, Interesting)
- Cost of monitors up by 20%.
- Cost of some peripherals up by 20%.
- Cost of non-computer related electronic items up by 15%.
- Cost of small kitchen appliances up by 50% is some cases.
I don't even live in America FFS!!!
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I don't know what number of reason we are learning again about how tariffs are bad economic policy but this is another one, in a global world with global trade prices are not hyper-regionalized nor is pricing so simple as "supply in + costs + profit margin" but *especially* when you have just raised the costs of all inputs, from everywhere, with no plan in place to keep prices in control as well as no strategy to increase supply and domestic manufacture. It's just "put tax on imports, wait for good things
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Words sense in those that make do not order.
Re: Tariff is such a beautiful word (Score:3)
What they are saying is that the corporations are spreading the costs out across multiple countries because they want to retain sales in this market against a day when these tariffs are gone. They are hoping and/or betting that this is temporary insanity.
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And they have good reason to as well, none of these tariffs or really any of the admin's moves thus far are actual laws.
Trump treats every EO signing like he's signing actual legislation but they are not. These can be undone the way same way they were done, by the next President with a simple signature. If a new spine-restoring surgery was discovered we could have them rescinded by Congress even earlier.
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Ali Express has had a huge price drop on almost everything in the last few weeks.
Not that I have seen, and I have been looking at it every few days for the last five or six weeks or more. The prices have stayed about the same in general. Many of the things I have bought over that timespan are more expensive today than they were when I bought them.
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Right well if you don't live here, then vote with your wallet, surely there must be some other manufacturer trying to gain market by not passing the US tariff costs they are not paying to you right?
Oh right, they probably are already paying various taxes etc and now that they don't have to worry about people buying US market products and avoiding the tax some how they get the margins they want.
From an American perspective, look at it this way. They alternative was going to be higher income taxes unless you
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Income taxes are not the same as tariffs. Hell I have been arguing that an unpopular position is that the USA needs to broaden it's tax base so that means the middle and lower classes are going to see a bump in rates as well, not a lot but some. Those at the top get bigger rate bumps as well, naturally.
Also why would they let child tax credits expire when Biden did it, successfully and Harris ran on keeping it?
You think tariff costs get passed onto the consumer but Klobuchar's proposals to raise corporate taxes some how don't?
Where do you want to start on the differences between these two things? The fact you consider t
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I like my old keyboard. Unfortunately, Microsoft stopped making them. So, I do have to keep it.
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>I don't even live in America FFS!!!
This is the part that should get interesting. The US basically IS the Western market, and as it walls itself off there are suppliers (China) who will have excess capacity they're trying to sell elsewhere.
Even as the US drags down the global economy - I'm Canadian, we're going to get fucked hard because we've been so intertwined with the US for so long. But as Americans stop being able to afford imports, we should see a drop in our (non-American) import prices that ho
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I buy direct from China, I don't go through Amazon or Wal-Mart, so I'm wondering exactly how much more expensive things are going to get for me (and by extension, other Canadians who do the same).
I imagine things may get a bit more expensive for you (sorry!) but if the Chinese government is smart they'll do what they can to keep the increases to a minimum while doing as much damage to the US (especially the Republican states) as they can.
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while doing as much damage to the US (especially the Republican states) as they can.
They don't even need to think too hard about this, the admin is doing it right now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0... [nytimes.com]
In 2000 there were only 317 counties in the country where 25 percent or more of the residents' income came from government assistance - primarily in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security payments. By 2020, that number had ballooned to 1,986 counties. What is particularly dangerous for Mr. Trump is that almost 80 percent of these counties supported Republicans in previous elections.
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The fact that a huge number of republican voters depend on social programs has always been interesting to me. Despite the threat of losing the very lifelines that keep them alive, these voters feel like the democratic alternative is so evil that they cannot even consider it. Or any other alternative. They would literally rather die first. They'll sing Tump's praises as they do, and hiss and spit over the names Obama and Biden, because they truly were evil (never mind they can never really tell me what it
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It's the media, when your fed Conservative talking points day in day out your perception of the world and things that affect you will be ran through that filter. It's a tough thing to deal with all over, maybe the most cogent political question we have to deal with right now. I mean it's all summed up by the "keep Government out of my Medicare" meme.
The fact Ayn Rand and Objectivism is treated any more seriously than Hubbard and Scientology or Elvish Magic is to me a failure of our culture.
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It is a dichotomy of thought. The politicians promised to cut off the bad people who are taking advantage of the system.
The voters don't consider themselves to be bad people -they paid into the system! They do real work, not like those government employees who just waste money! Their Social Security will be safe. Their Medicare will not be cut. Their unemployment will be paid. Their disaster-recovery funds are deserved. They know that they wont be harmed -only those others who deserve it.
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Dumping's only an issue if we have domestic alternatives getting crushed. For all the stuff we get from China almost exclusively, that's not an issue.
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Probably not buying bargains. Its expensive to restructure a supply chain, and it also takes time. (The infrastructure hasn't yet been built.)
Just "less more expensive that in the US".
Swiss company, Swiss franc and Swiss salaries (Score:2)
Just bring back the Trackman Marble mouse already (Score:2)
Just bring back the Trackman Marble mouse already.
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The original marble concept lives on in various devices. Did you mean the second Gen Big Ball fingertip marble? I hear Kensington saying hello from the early nineties.
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I have the ELECOM, Kensington Orbit, and other workalikes. The Trackman is just a better trackball even if it's missing the scrolly wheel.
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The classic Kensington balls were the best, but they had some fairly decent ones later on which retained the billiard ball.
I tried elecom too, their replacement is sloppy. The ball moves laterally too much. It was nice to have a wired option, but it's not worth it.
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Just bring back the Trackman Marble mouse already.
"... right now so I can pay an artificially higher price for it!"
SHOCKED FACE (Score:2)
Oh man. It's so totally shocking to see corporations increase their prices in markets irrespective of tariffs, using them as an excuse to increase profits.
Thank god for those tariffs! Solving all of my problems.
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Fun fact the price of computers and computer parts was actually trending down prior to our illustrious orange overlord.
Enjoy your national sales tax folks. They're going to cut their own taxes while raising yours. Donald Trump is now responsible for the single largest tax raise in US history. Yeah. Bigger than world war II. And you're going to pay it.
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I did that stickers? Just put them on all our electronics right next to the price tags.
I do wonder how the strangely-silent people who voted for Trump feel about this. They're really happy Trump caused the world to cancel the United States, right?
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Based on what I have seen in social media there is a lot of "I don't think any of these actions he is doing are good, in fact they are bad and hurting my business, but I still support President Trump!"
You see one of the biggest influences Trump brought to the Republican platform is that they can never... ever... ever... admit they made a mistake. It's double down and double down again and that is a dangerous place to be in for a ruling political party. They'll never go back on their actions, it's baked in
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Yeah I never claimed they were competent or coherent
He backflipped while also threatening more tariffs and still sticking by them as official US trade policy, his cover for the 90 days is they are going to negotiate something like 20-150 trade agreements in 90 days.
It's clownshoes and they can never and will never actually change course, they can't they're incapable because they are devoid of ideas that could actually work and ceded all competency to the liberals.
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... raises prices by up to 25% IN THE US. (Score:2)
FTFY
To be honest, it doesn't look very planfull what's going on with you guys right now. Given, AFAICT the US could do with some fundamental constitutional housecleaning. Redo elections, public funding only, abolish gerrymandering, less power for the President, multi-party system, coalition governments, no private sector in the penal system, loser pays all for civil lawsuits and a few other details. Not trivial but really not impossible and actually quite easy to fix in a peaceful revolution without a singl
Seems kind of expensive (Score:2)
I just bought a Bluetooth/wifi mouse (rechargeable) for $8.
(My decade old Logitech Bluetooth mouse stopped working with the latest software "upgrades".)
Never Mind at least you got to stuff your faces (Score:2)
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Cheap foreign goods are going to be less cheap - the horror!
Just curious, wouldn't it be better for the planet if every blessed thing we buy didn't have travel half-way around the world on a large boat that burns bunker oil (the worst polluting form of petroleum fuel, the literal sludge left after the other products are refined out of crude oil)? I mean imagine if the factories that made stuff was being monitored and controlled my our environmental rules, not in sweat shops on the other side of the world wh
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The truth is, it kept going down and down in price, ever since the dawn of the personal computer revolution of the 1980's.
Sure - there were a few bumps along the way. But I recall things like paying about $1,100 US for an internal HP CD burner drive that burnt CDs at a whopping 2x speed. These days? You can pick one up at your local Micro Center store for about $20.
A Radio-Shack Tandy Model 16 computer, back in 1981-82 sold for $4,999 (equivalent to over $16,000 in today's dollars).
Nobody used to even conce
Ditto for Canada for some reason (Score:2)
I shouldn't be surprised but I can be disappointed.
My guess is that if a company like Logitech lands a Chinese product at a United States port, they are unable to separate out the 10% destined for the Canadian market and we wind up paying the Trump Tax like the Americans.
Can somebody knowledgeable explain how this normally works? Does product destined for Canada need to be bonded when it lands? And did it need to be bonded before Trumps tarrifs?
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Good luck, Logitech. Plenty of other brands to choose from.
Well that's the thing, isn't it? Lots of other brands to choose from implies something about a good degree of competition. If you're not going for the g4m3rZzZ stuff, the Logitech is decent and competitively priced. Yes more than the cheap shit Amazon basics, but also you know not shit unlike amazon basics.
Clearly, no one in this market has a magic formula for lower costs and high quality, because similar quality things are similar prices on the who
Re: Greed (Score:3)
Logi provides an extremely mixed experience. IME their ergonomics are excellent but the quality is otherwise not great. In olden times even their cheapest devices were high quality and had good longevity, now I find that I'm replacing switches often and even have had the electronics fail.
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We bought Logi some wireless keyboard and mice for work and they're unusable due to interference.
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Logitech is the best of the worst. They would be terrible if it wasn't for everyone else. There just isn't enough competition on the quality/ergonomics side. Their mouse button switches are garbage.
I just replaced my m705 after 5 years because the left button just stopped working one day out of the blue. I walked away from the computer with it working and came back and it was dead. I though the computer was locked up because clicking wasn't working.
I had the m705 because the MX Master was too pricey to
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I am capable at soldering (I wouldn't say good, never got into the weirdest SMT stuff that requires stencils and whatnot, about as sophisticated as I've gotten is Kapton tape flags) and so I have definitely replaced switches in Logitech devices before. In fact, I have a couple of the prior trackballs (M570) waiting for me to get around to putting new switches in them. I now use an Ergo M575, which I switched to because that's what work got me. I have the same Reddragon keyboard with the same Outemu silent p
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Unfortunately all the other brands make their stuff in China as well, so they will be forced to raise prices too.
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Unfortunately all the other brands make their stuff in China as well, so they will be forced to raise prices too.
Fortunately other brands don’t have as much corporate overhead to feed. As if Logitech executives are eating Top Ramen for dinner, barely scraping by.
Desperation, can often be smelled a mile away. We’ll see if a 25% increase is supported by the wallets feeding the other 80% of the stock price.
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I haven't paid too much attention but I thought Logitech were a budget brand.
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That's sort of the problem - with mice, they're both the budget and premium brand. At least if you don't want a gaming themed mouse. So even the premium options can be trash because what are you going to do?
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Fortunately other brands don’t have as much corporate overhead to feed.
I think you meant "unfortunately". If you have more corporate overhead then objectively the tariffs impact your bottom line less.
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Almost like China has a ton of comparative advantage when it comes to building bits of plastic with electronic components inside them held together by tape and tiny screws.
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Yeah, all kinds of options for consumer electronics that aren't made in China.
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Everybody's in favor of globalism...they just want to be the ruling part.
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Good luck, Logitech. Plenty of other brands to choose from. I don’t need to pay professional gamer prices to outfit an office worker, fuck you very much.
You can really tell which brands are pressured to “justify” an overinflated stock price. Especially when they know they’re not worth it.
What other magical tariff free land are these other brands manufactured in?
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I've bought two of their mechanical keyboards over the last three years and both have failed. Two rows of backlights are out on one and the left-shift stopped working on the other. I am not inclined to pay a higher price for another one.
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Thanks to the Unions we are in this predicament. No way out. I get it Unions had their purpose a hundred years ago but it's time they disappear. They are a virus that will kill the US.
Are you suggesting that we trust in the benevolence of the owner class? The same owner class that brought about the need for unions in the first place? Do you really think if we gave the owner class carte blanche that they'd treat us all fairly, and not put their selfish interests above basic human needs - again?
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They're not wrong in that the way we structure labor unions in the US has not been great but the answer isn't to get rid of them but just look how these sytems operate better in other parts of the world; sectoral unions. [wikipedia.org]
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Outside of some potential niche uses, I struggle to understand why one would spend over $100 on a keyboard or mouse when a basic PS/2 or USB one will work fine for the vast majority of use cases.
I am approaching about that cost, so I will attempt to explain. First, what is it? It's a Redragon "Devarajas" K556RGB. This is a third generation ARGB-backlit keyboard with doubleshot keys and a USB Type C jack instead of a captive cable. The PCB is made by evision. It has an aluminum case, hotswap switches (3 or 5 pin, comes with 3 pin switches) and supports macros and whatnot including mouse operations. The keys are doubleshot with dye sub color.
I wanted a heavy keyboard so it didn't slide around so much
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Same reason everyone doesn't drive Honda Civics, sometimes the tools you use the most it's worth having a nicer to use version of that. I have had my Corsair K95 mechanical for almost a decade problem free, I wouldn't trade it back for a membrane keyboard unless you literally paid me. When it breaks it's a total no-brainer for me to buy another mechanical again with backlighting, both features are well worth it to me, I use my keyboard a lot. Same reason I spend on decent shoes and a decent mattress.
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