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No, and we should stop using the term "gray market" for perfectly legitimate international phone reselling. The phones aren't stolen, they were purchased and re
by kmeisthax 3y ago
No, and we should stop using the term "gray market" for perfectly legitimate international phone reselling. The phones aren't stolen, they were purchased and resold to another country. This is perfectly legal but manufacturers hate it because they can't price discriminate as easily.
In this specific case, Samsung has a local distributor in Mexico that upcharges significantly, so Mexicans just buy phones in the US and use them in Mexico. The local distributor hates this because they have no margin if they can't gouge Mexico, so they are trying to scare anyone using a US phone in Mexico so that they can sell you a new distributor-bullshit-royalty-bearing phone instead.