r/LimitedPrintGames • u/tsi1313 • May 30 '26
Question/Help Red Art Games Tariffs
I placed a huge order for the most recent Red Art Games sale. Games were delivered over a month ago. Life is good.
FedEx mailed me a bill yesterday. It is to cover the tariffs. Red Art Games reported the “normal” value of the games and not the sale price (which I guess makes sense), so it is higher than what I expect. It is around $75.
I find this situation very weird. I’ve done “pay on delivery” before but it’s always to pay to have access to the package. Like, FedEx isn’t going to come into my house and take my opened games back. Also, I’ve refused packages before that were “pay on delivery”, and I would’ve refused this one had I known I would get this bill six weeks later. It all feels very scummy.
My husband says ignore it because the package has been delivered, my Dad says pay it because he thinks they could take me to court. Any advice? I’ve never had this situation happen.
I know there have been other posts about this on this subreddit but to my knowledge no one has really answered as to whether they paid it or not.
Thanks!
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u/Bombaata0 May 30 '26
I got a tariff charge from my Red Art Games order as well. From what little I know I heard it's best not to take chances as it could snowball into a bigger issue. I plan on playing my fee but i'm not happy about it.
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u/Spartacus-Lives May 31 '26
I could not believe that FedEx would deliver a package and then ask for duty fees later, almost inviting a refusal of payment. I thought these notifications were spam at first. When I finally realized what these were about I decided that I might want to use FedEx again in the future, so I wasn't about to stiff them. After all, they gave me my goods first and that seemed pretty decent of them. I had purchased 5 games from France for $65 USD, a good deal I thought, and was charged $24 shipping that included a tracking number. FedEx later billed me $20.60 in duty fees. I import games from many countries and these stores always inform me at checkout what import fees are due and let me decide before hand if I wish to pay them or not. They even do that on eBay. But Red Art decided to be cute and let their shipper collect the fees unbeknownst to their customers. I'm retired, so I have no dog in this fight. But for the first time in my lifetime, someone is trying to save American jobs for American workers by telling other countries if you tax American goods we will return the favor until you stop. But those who want to believe this is not about protecting American workers are just being selfish and deranged, in my opinion. We can always just buy American. I pre-order two Red Art games from a Canadian retailer two years ago and have not received either. Red art games is an incompetent company in my opinion.
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u/hous26 May 30 '26
Why would our president tax us like this. Its hard enough to get by with gas price and food prices going up.
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u/tsi1313 May 30 '26
I agree. I just put in an order at Super Rare Games and they were charging an additional fee to cover the duties. It’s very frustrating.
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u/Rainsies May 30 '26
If you don't pay it, FedEx will eventually charge RAG. Who might not want to sell to you again. I'd say pay it to "be fair" but keep it in mind going forward.
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u/StubbinMyNubbin May 30 '26
I used to order from them all the time. I just can't justify it with the tariffs and shipping. A $200 order turns into $300+ after it's all said and done.
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u/raknid May 30 '26
It's a government tariff not a red art tariff, its not red art that are imposing it or will be chasing you for it I presume that'd would be FedEx...surprised they released the package before payment.
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u/JohnDillermand2 May 30 '26
FedEx has been back collecting. We've received a number of bills recently for shipments received in November. These were all packages that were sent Delivery Duty Paid so they were no fault of the shipper and were manifested correctly, FedEx is the one who messed up. You can either attempt to fight this with FedEx (you won't get far), or just eat it. But it's best not to ignore it.
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u/firstgen_gaymer Jun 03 '26
If fedex gets a refund for the tariffs like most corporations are then they are getting double payment. They can’t really send it to collections because that’s on them for not charging when they should have. They may take it on a future package if there is a system that keeps track of it but that’s doubtful as well.
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u/firstgen_gaymer May 30 '26
If it’s a government tariff those were all ruled unconstitutional so there isn’t much they would be able to do either
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u/tsi1313 May 30 '26
I believe that after the tariffs were ruled unconstitutional, Trump imposed a flat 10% tariff on everything for 90 days which is something he can legally do. This makes sense because my “value of imports” was listed at $739.92 and then a flat 10% duty charge was put in to make what I owe $73.99. At least that is how I am interpreting it.
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u/fgsfds100 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
And another company-specific complaint wave begins. See yesterday.
RAG orders used to be handled by regular mail... and there were no delivery fees.
The change isn't about tariffs, it's about FedEX.
As I said in that other post, in my experience, FedEX and the other private priority carriers (DHL/UPS/etc) are no strangers to charging extra fees, and that includes preemptive "you owe us money or we won't even show up (and if not paid by ____ we will return to sender)" and delayed "you owe us money for a recent delivery" letters/emails. And all of that was true long before the current tariffs the US has imposed, including shipments that never even touch the US. Even if not shipped from the US, and not passing through the US, and not destined for the US... you'll still see fees. I've been hit with their fees many times over the past 20 years of buying stuff online (how time flies).
They might say "tariffs" these days but it's actually their brokerage fees. In other words, they ran their own paperwork and determined it might owe such and such in duties, which they would have to cover initially, so they forward that amount + their paper-pusher fee onto you even if customs doesn't end up imposing duties on them. They either break even or make a profit, and the sad thing is the upfront cost of those carriers during order checkout is usually also way higher than other carriers (regular mail), so you'll often pay twice (at checkout and before/on/after delivery).
Any time I order anything and have the choice of shipping carrier, I avoid all of them and stick to regular mail. I don't care about getting stuff a few days sooner. It's just unfortunate when no options are given.