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Why are you assuming only bulk purchases will be affected? I bought my entire family new phones for Christmas, directly from the Samsung website. Except that

Why are you assuming only bulk purchases will be affected? I bought my entire family new phones for Christmas, directly from the Samsung website. Except that there are 5 of us, and Samsung has a limit of 4. So I searched and searched to find a fifth phone of the same model at a comparable price through legitimate channels. And guess what, the phone I'm typing this on was purchased from a perfectly legitimate seller, but was intended for use in Mexico. Selling phones from one region to alleviate supply shortages in another is incredibly common.

Sephr 3y ago
> And guess what, the phone I'm typing this on was purchased from a perfectly legitimate seller, but was intended for use in Mexico If the seller did not inform you of the region activation lock, then they are illegitimate. That is not normal behavior from a legitimate seller.
- excalibur 3y ago
  It was a third party seller on a major shopping website. I was fully aware that the phone was imported.
  - Sephr 3y ago
    The issue isn't that it was imported, it's that it was region activation locked.
    - excalibur 3y ago
      It wasn't an issue for millions of people who purchased them. Now corporate greed is making it an issue after the fact, and you're defending it as some sort of moral high ground.