LOVELAND, Colo. — Paul Polak is in the running for grandpa of the year – but the title comes at a cost higher than he expected.
The Loveland resident wanted to spruce up his granddaughter’s first car, a 22-year-old Audi station wagon she is about to inherit from her dad. But Polak noticed one of the hubcaps was missing.
What he thought would be an easy online order ended ensnarled in a confusing web of tariffs that ended with him paying nearly the entire cost of the hubcap in tariffs…