> Let's just say that was the final nail in the coffin for me at that specific startup.
Why? Do you consider contempt of business model to be immoral? Or are you saying the phones were stolen and not just gray-market?
Why? Do you consider contempt of business model to be immoral? Or are you saying the phones were stolen and not just gray-market?
Paraguay is about 20% more, Argentina 100 to 200%, and Brazil 30 to 40% more.
Anything that is high end costs much more here due to a combination of tarrifs, reduced volume and the people who are wealthy not caring.
Read up on Ciduad Del Este, it’s basically the electronics hub for the southern cone where electronics are smuggled into Brazil and Argentina. Beef and eggs from Argentina get smuggled into Brazil and PY.
Anything that you were doing pales in comparison to what everyone here is doing.
It should be illegal to impose such terms on anyone who purchases anything from you.
Freeing those phones was a virtuous act, even if done for self interested reasons.
I'm talking from a corporation/carrier side that let this happen to consumers. If you sign to terms of a contract that gives you special access to phones to sell in your region and then you just go and break that contract that doesn't seem right to me. To be clear I don't think downstream consumers did something wrong.