@Morozniy wrote: @CerberusSco, this is interesting question about Amazon & Network povider. So far i understand (and have read this some time in the pasat), network provider sould have high headache with faulty smartphones. And they can potentially reject whole batch if faulty (well, potentially and this is maybe depending on contractural agreement between network and manufacturer). What i see currently on Amazon is very very interesting- while 5 days ago Amazon was selling black and at some time later also white Z5c at around 480 euros, the price went now to around 511 euros. At same time there appeared a lot of amazon warehouse offers. I see here 2 possibilities: 1)Amazon has high rejecting quote and lift the regular price to push warehouse deals forward. Or 2) Amazon lift the prices to get more margin at christmas time. and maybe 3) Amazon sold faulty units at 480 and now sells better ones for 511 (small likehood). I do agree with your statement " it doesn't seem they are doing anything near to the level of what we're doing, or beyond, to identify/replicate this issue ". More likely they make point&shoot at their office and then look the photos on the phone's display without zoom or do zoom in the center or around center. When a re-seller recieves a "returned" device from a customer, them trying to sell the same device to another customer is not economically viable, since there is a high chance it will be returned again. There are various logistics and handlings costs involved. Such devices are returned to the manufacturer (most often for refurbishing) and acording to what agreements are in place are either replaced by said manufacturer or reimbursed for. To be constructive I will adress your three points. 1) Rejection does not affect amazon's bottom line since they themselves receive warranties from the manufacturers. 2) Raising margins around the holidays, when everyone else is lowering prices and offering deals, is a **bleep** sure and quite stupid way of hurting your business. Amazon are a lot of things but they ain't dumb 3) As mentioned above, it is not viable to sell faulty units and deal with returns on most of them. The actual reason for the price difference is, most likely, the foreign exchange market. The EUR value has been dropping consistently for some time now, against many major currencies, and it pushed importers in the EU to raise their end price due to EUR's lower purchasing power.
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