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Why would Samsung have just one distributor in Mexico with very high prices? This doesn't make sense.

In EU you can buy from a variety of sellers at various prices. You can buy grey market too and Samsung doesn't disable those phones.

So what is special about Mexico?

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Seemingly it wasn't just samsung, but a number of companies all felt the need to do this. Some of them didn't go as far as disabling, but simply showed a warning, which does little to deter people from buying grey market phones. It's possible that all these manufacturers were worried about breaking some mexican regulation if they let customers continue using these phones.

If you import a phone from another country in Europe you can run into other issues. For example if you buy a Samsung in the Netherlands, Samsung Pay won't work. Because it's not available there, even if you have a bank account in another country where it is :(

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