pcb fabrication services "tariffs" - ?

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lcipher3

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So I know Tayda upped their shipping and eliminated the super nice cheap shipping, probably due to the tariff issues to fold the cost into shipping?
Anyway...
What about all the PCB services? I haven't bought any in a long while but have a few projects. Is it the same now and/or how are they dealing with tariffs? It's not clear to me from the sites what the process is.

I tend to NOT want to go the $20 shipping for a few boards in a few days (personal use not selling, etc) so if I chose the slow boat low cost is there a ton of tariffs or problems? This isnt a big order - I think for my handful 5-10 boards it's something like under $10 for the cheap/slow boat but are there "hidden" gotchas lurking here?
 
lcipher3 said:
"on pcbs" but not shipping? the actual pcb price is a few bucks so even 30% isnt that much.
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Tariffs are on goods, not services, but shipping prices have certainly increased lately. I can't speak for the slow boat option as my orders are always too big for the slow boat, but DHL is easily 2-3x what I was paying for it even just a year ago.
 
vigilante398 said:
If you're in the US, there is going to be tariffs. Last I checked it's around 30% on pcbs.
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Not with OSHpark! :) And as of my last order, still free shipping.
Just gotta optimize for minimum square inches. I feel kinda guilty sometimes ordering for <$1 and getting free shipping. They'll stop doing that eventually just like they stopped giving out stickers.
 
SpringReverbFan1234 said:
Not with OSHpark! :) And as of my last order, still free shipping.
Just gotta optimize for minimum square inches. I feel kinda guilty sometimes ordering for <$1 and getting free shipping. They'll stop doing that eventually just like they stopped giving out stickers.
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that's in the USA? Cant be cheap... how much for a 2.25"x3.25" two sided board?
 
lcipher3 said:
that's in the USA? Cant be cheap... how much for a 2.25"x3.25" two sided board?
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It’s $5 per square inch, and they ship you three boards, so that would probably cost something like $37. By contrast, my last order from JLCPCB was less than a month ago, and cost $8.61 for three sets of five PCBs. And unlike OSHpark, you don’t need to sand down the edges of the PCBs. Maybe OSHpark is a good deal if you absolutely need ENIG, but for a guitar pedal I don’t see the value proposition.
 
PedalBuilder said:
It’s $5 per square inch, and they ship you three boards, so that would probably cost something like $37. By contrast, my last order from JLCPCB was less than a month ago, and cost $8.61 for three sets of five PCBs. And unlike OSHpark, you don’t need to sand down the edges of the PCBs. Maybe OSHpark is a good deal if you absolutely need ENIG, but for a guitar pedal I don’t see the value proposition.
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Yep exactly. OSH isn't bad for tiny boards, but anything vaguely pedal-sized is going to get expensive, and it makes even less sense if you're ordering 50 boards at a time. Also I hate the mouse-bite edges they leave when they depanelize the boards. Their "after dark" boards look super cool and I've used them for a couple one-off projects when it made sense to do so, but it definitely doesn't happen often.
 
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