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Samsung and Other Manufacturers Disable Phones Bought on Gray Markets: A Consumer Nightmare (nomadscrolls.net)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love how you're getting downvotes for pointing out the exact reason.

Diversion is often also a means to fund crime and terrorism when done at scale.

In some cases of diversion the product also gets altered by changing valuable content for cheaper ones. A good example of this would be medicine or liqour. Worst case is that the end user gets fake medicine.

Making your product affordable in a region also increases consumer safety as it will curb counterfeiting. In the case of phones this can lead to exploding batteries or electrocutions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samantharadocchia/2018/10/23/hair-product-diversion-is-dirty-business-heres-what-it-will-take-to-clean-up-the-supply-chain/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even on Lemmy, simple but wrong answers prevail over complicated truths.