[kstenerud]

Wait, what? So defending your rights under an exclusivity agreement through the courts is somehow now "forcing" their hand? The evil Sol-Ark by suing for compliance to their contract pushed the hapless Deye into bricking consumers hardware?

[Firerouge]

I like how you quoted forcing, but I very specifically did not use that term.

Had there been no exclusivity agreement, I think we can agree that the inverters would not of been bricked for being located in the wrong regions.

I think the malice from Sol-Ark here is that they are only offering a limited time deal, which may pressure people to pay up before the courts clear this up.

Regardless of who shares the majority of the blame, Sol-Ark, Deye or 3rd party vendors, this could of been handled better by all parties involved, and should not have harmed end consumers in this way.

[mint2]

It’s unclear who caused it exactly, but sol-ark does not seem to be at fault unless one thinks exclusivity contracts are illegal or wrong.

It seems deye either willfully or negligently ignore their contract they made with sol ark. Or their middle men in other countries did. Deye then punished the end users for deye’s lapses.

Where does solark get blame unless the exclusivity contract is what one objects to.

[int_19h]

When the purpose of the exclusivity contract is to sell something at 5x the price it is sold for in other markets, I think most people would reasonably describe this as price gouging.

[anon84873628]

So you're just agreeing with a possible viewpoint the parent admitted as valid several times?

[jrflowers]

> I like how you quoted forcing, but I very specifically did not use that term.

I like that you substituted a similar word while paraphrasing a common phrase and then used the opportunity to say “I didn’t mean what you thought I did. I meant something else but will not describe what that is exactly”

[lazide]

Blaming Sol-Ark for that is just absurd.