[Galaxy Note 3 General] bubblesmoney:
amazon are one of the biggest sellers of sim free phones in most countries in my opinion. I am pissed off with samsungs attitude towards free trade. One company cant have its cake and eat it too. If they want to reap the benefits of importing their products and selling it in the EU or elsewhere after manufacturing them elsewhere taking into account the benefits of lower wages elsewhere and currency fluctuations benefitting them, then the same free trade should be available to consumers in all countries. They should be free to buy their devices from anywhere they choose without artificial restrictions placed by samsung affecting free trade. After all even if i buy the device from elsewhere I will be paying full market price for the product and not some fake product and i will also be paying the shipping charges and import customs duty and VAT. So who the f*** are samsung to tell me what i cant legally buy and import into the UK. This in my opinon is gross violation of free trade laws and WTO agreements. Individual countries regulators and finance ministries should penalise samsung for forcing people visiting other countries to use roaming sims and block local sims. They are forcing tourists visiting popular tourist destinations from using local sims and use costlier roaming. Finance and trade ministries in countries affected by block lists in samsung firmware should take action against samsung for forcing tourists not to use the affected countries sim in favour of roaming international sims. Since countries like India (and 60+ other countries) is in the block list of EU phones (countries) and all these countries have signed up to free trade agreements via WTO, i feel this is a gross violation favouring network operators in some regions to the detriment of others. I hope people fromaffected regions living in other countries raise the issue with their respective governments to take action against samsung for putting their countries on block lists. Please send copy of message to the same countries opposition leaders as well so that there is more questions asked in parliaments of those countries and action is taken hopefully forcing samsung who have a leading market share to remove these region locks.

I have been posting links to posts of people stating they have been blocked on my amazon reviews

black version review, http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1JZ...E3U29EEI1A45&store=electronics#wasThisHelpful presently 51 of 75 people have found the review helpful and is affecting the reviews for the product getting 2 stars courtesy of all the negative reviews on amazon uk and now amazon have changed the listing to say region locked as a consequence.

white version review, http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3KI...OGZ9JCA99LMG&store=electronics#wasThisHelpful presently 25 of 33 people have found it helpful and courtesy of all the bad reviews even the white model is getting 2* review

But i find that amazon listings in many countries in the EU and elsewhere have 5* ratings (eg italy has 5* rating on amazon and germany has only few negative ratings)even though they are region locked too, so can people in those countries please raise some awareness and affect the listings please. Only when it affects reviews and ratings and affects sales will samsung budge. Or they will just sit tight and hope people protesting agaisnt region locking will get tired and give up.

also can people who used the russian site give feedback if their phone is still unlocked after 14 days please.