Logitech Quietly Raises Prices By Up To 25% (9to5mac.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/22/0214252/logitech-quietly-raises-prices-by-up-to-25
- Source link: https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/21/logitech-prices-up-by-as-much-as-25-as-tariffs-kick-in/
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 [2]recently implemented similar increases , suggesting a broader industry trend.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4d__01u2mc
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/1546213/chinese-electronics-firm-anker-starts-raising-prices-on-amazon
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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
Re: Greed (Score:2)
I have always bought Logitech devices. Wireless keyboards, mice.. I have been buying the K400 keyboard for media PCs forever. Never had a problem with any of them. I have even bought their ultra-cheap level of keyboard/mouse combo with no issues.
Re:Greed (Score:4, Insightful)
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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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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carried to it's ultimate conclusion, isn't that globalism ?
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And, that's part of the problem. The world at large has placed all of their egg rolls in one basket.
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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?
A better idea (Score:4, Informative)
I'm sure they could leave the prices low and instead improve their margins with a subscription model [1]for enabling the scroll wheel [arstechnica.com]. Win-win!
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/
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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:2)
- 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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That's the scary part, that manufacturers increase the price worldwide, when the only change is the US tariffs. If you want the bully to stop, you need to stand up to them, but instead many companies will use tariffs as a perfect excuse to become greedier.
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What's interesting is that after the steel and aluminum tariffs came into affect (25%) then the US steel manufacturers increased *their* prices by 25% just because they could.
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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
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.
Re: Tariff is such a beautiful word (Score:2)
That's not necessarily true. In the article about Anker raising the price of their products, I checked a US price versus searching on the same product in Canada (on Amazon). The basic nano 47W charger was 29.99 in the US but I was getting a price of $23CDN
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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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That should spur tourism to Canada, and body cavity searches for all homecoming US citizens
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Will it? You will just have to pay the tariffs coming back across the border.
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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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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.
Underwhelming quality (Score:1)
And way overpriced even before this increase.
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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.
Swiss company, Swiss franc and Swiss salaries (Score:2)
The Swiss franc has been going up for ages. And perhaps the new CEO wants their bonus to go up as well....
Just bring back the Trackman Marble mouse already (Score:2)
Just bring back the Trackman Marble mouse already.
Re: Just bring back the Trackman Marble mouse alre (Score:2)
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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> 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.
So can we get some Trump themed (Score:2)
I did that stickers? Just put them on all our electronics right next to the price tags.
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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> 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?
Fat wallet (Score:2)
Fyi.. Canadian metal producers can't keep carrying the weight of tariffs for much longer. They are insulating you now but eventually it will have to give and it could add $12k to the price of a car.
... 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
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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 single bullet fired. However, what President Trump and his crew are doing right now looks a t
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".)
Winning... (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm so tired of all the winning
Re:Winning... (Score:4, 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.
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.
Re: Winning... (Score:2)
I was also critical of the best that the Democrats could put forward. I've worked closely with many of what people call the "wealthy elites." All of them are brutish low vision narcissists. When they're lost they double down on their worst impulses, which for them is what they think is their recipe for success. It works in a system that coddles billionaires, but fails in adversity.
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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.
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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> 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.
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.
Re: Winning... (Score:2)
That's not going to happen for much longer. It will be to China's and Canada's benefit to work out direct trade.
Re: Winning... (Score:1)
Everybody gangster until they have to implement what the U.S. Navy and Air Force and Army do to facilitate world trade. Unless Canada has a military tucked away somewhere that can protect trade, or even has some huge population of consumers somewhere to make it worthwhile, good luck setting up international trade routes without the U.S. . This is why U.S. taxpayers feel it when Trump asks why we pay for everyone else to have low prices and free trade. Itâ(TM)s time everyone pays up for what the U.S. of
Re: Winning... (Score:2)
The US doesn't do anything that Canada needs that China doesn't do. The American armed forces has lost a lot of power and influence globally in the last 20 years anyway.
Re: Winning... (Score:1)
It is not just piracy of the goods shipped from China; the stability of the inputs to China rely on U.S. military power as well. There is a rebel group that would love to see a strait shut down that supplies a lot of Chinaâ(TM)s energy input. This is just one of many issues the U.S. actively rectifies and by that grace allows China to import food and energy. Iâ(TM)m all for China and Canada stepping up to this plate, and paying for it. China will consume Taiwan for starters to make this happen. Ev
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China has switched all their oil buying from the US to Canada in the last few weeks. This is a solved problem. As another person said, China has the resources for this. It is a solved problem.