[_3u10]

Have you been to South America? Flagship phones don’t cost less here.

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.

[lcw]

Thanks for sharing I'm definitely going to read into it a bit, and I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about South American economics nor have I spent a lot of time there.I definitely haven't bought anything expensive there. As I said in a previous comments this was sometime ago, but I would say that if a bunch of carriers were selling their allotment of phones to US markets it could lead to the scenarios that you are depicting. If it's easier to offload to the US market expensive phones than reasonably there would have to be a big incentive to keep them in market which would inflate costs to be higher than US markets. I can't speak to the tariff issues though that could hurt my argument. It may be a lesser evil at the end of the day who is it for me to say. I just didn't feel right about it.

[_3u10]

Yeah the cell phone world is a little dodgy at times.