Best Buy still has the X1C Combo, A1 Combo, and A1 Mini in stock with two-day delivery, and the P1S Combo (six-days) at pre-tariff pricing. Ordered an X1C Combo this morning to sit next to my A1 instead of the H2D.
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Yep. Your and @Armyflierās posts show the problem. Whatever the tariff situation is right now, it could easily be different before the day is over.
I had some stuff on order in the EU and cancelled it when dear leader was making noise about EU tariffs since things could change fast and I could get stuck with a big tariff bill. Another guy didnāt cancel. I donāt know his details but he just posted on another board he just got a bill around $800.
All the uncertainty is bringing commerce to a halt.
For those buying things that are in US warehouses and any tariffs already paid, thatās golden. But right now thereās no way Iād order anything big ticket that has yet to cross the US border. Things are changing too fast, by too much, and the liability is to either lose the package or get stuck with a big bill that you legally have to pay.
Nope.
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Hi there Malc, great and thorough log and comparison!
The UK prices are however in GBP and including VAT (I believe 20% in the UK?). Could be helpful to have an extra column GBP to USD?
As an example, the H2D Combo would be 2043 USD in the UK without tax.
(edit: so the total conversion factor would be 1.105)
I will take a look and see what I can do.
The U.K. price wasnāt meant to be a direct comparison to the US price, simply a list of the equivalent U.K. prices.
This was my own internal list I made for several companies.
Yes, the U.K. prices include the VAT amount which is automatically added to all U.K. products charged at 20%.
I might add a second table with the U.K. to USD prices comparison excluding any tax element.
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Done, added other columns related to the comparison purpose.
Added to the top of the post.
The A1 mini is almost twice the price.
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The price wonāt come down. This is a price increase for greed. They are blaming the tariffs for the increase. All companies are in the process of doing this. I know there is an increase but $150 for a P1S is pretty significant. These will not go down unless the consumer decides to not purchase.
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These were clear.
This is an information post not a political debate.
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UPDATE
A 90-day pause has been scheduled to begin on both sides from the 14th May.
America drops their to 30%, China to 10%.
Hopefully, this will lower the current prices. The issue would be how much stock has already been penalised. This will mean some period of additional fees BL has been charged and they will have to decide what to do with that.
H2D w/AMS is in my cart, but I canāt justify hitting ābuyā when it may drop several hundred dollars the next hour. 
If it was me, I would be prepared to wait a few weeks for the potential of hundreds coming back off the current tariff inflated price.
There is no idea to know when the prices will come down. The tariffs are reduced tomorrow (not to the pre-tariff amounts), but, that doesnāt mean the BL prices will reduce immediately.
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Unless the US government is giving a tax refund to the importers that had shipments come in under the higher tariffs, donāt expect the prices to change until they get new shipments with lower tariffs, then they may lower a little to spread out the higher tariff imports with the newer ones.
Like I said.
It is worth noting that the H2D models are all out of stock in the US, so those at least will not be penalised.
However, we do not know if BL will do the same as Microsoft, which raised prices worldwide for the Xbox console to help compensate for lower US prices. Essentially, they let Americaās pain be shared with all countries.
Microsoft sells millions of consoles worldwide and is a multibillion dollar company with many products. BL sells hundreds of thousands of printers worldwide and has only 1 type of product. That probably makes all the difference in the approach to worldwide pricing.
Iād be more interested in BL doing what Nintendo did for the Switch 2 and raise the accessory and game prices and not the console price.
I used this as a dumb move by a company in how not to deal with the issue.
The volume or type of products is irrelevant. That said, Xbox is a separate business from Microsoft. It is a subsidiary of the Microsoft group.
Those prices were set BEFORE the tariffs. Nintendo was caught on the back foot by the tariff announcement, and they cancelled the pre-orders for those in America as their response.
The price increase for console games looks to be shifting upwards for future consoles, this is according to industry experts.
BL also priced the H2D before the tariffs and made a big deal about the pricing in their announcement. Nintendo still went ahead with US pre-orders at the same price initially announced, just at a later date, after saying accessories would cost more. Higher game prices can certainly make up for tariff increases without raising console prices too much because many games are now bought digitally and digital products cannot be tariffed in the US.
I have updated the price table comparisons and the UK to US currency conversions and price differences at the top of this post for easier review from earlier versions.
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If you take off all vat + traiff etc what are differences in price? does america pay vat? they have sales tax per sate i think?
There is a chart without uk vat.
You canāt take off the the tariff as it is part of the total price.
The US doesnāt have a country wide single value tax, each state charges its own rate, sine do not charge any as taxes are generated from other sources.
The second chart is the closest thing to no U.K. tax, and no us tax as sales tax is added afterwards and not before. Until the tariffs are removed, they are part of an unchangeable chart and is required to understand the current differences.