[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
You're right. I missed that it was auction sale and not "buy it now". Yes, with auction format you want to start low, allow enough time for people to find it bookmark it, get emotionally invested. The flurry of REAL, serious bids come in the final few minutes.

When you END the auction is also very important. I once snagged an excellent laser printer for ridiculously low price because the seller scheduled the auction to end at 4am, when no one else was awake but me. :p Now an auction begins immediately, when you manually post it and that also sets the end time -- but years ago on eBay (unless I'm crazy mistaken) you could "schedule" when an auction began and thus when it ended. Also more people are home on a Sunday night than on a Friday or Saturday night. That's a "good" time to end an auction, so you have more eyeballs on your item.

Yeah, I've accepted the bootloader unlock won't come until after the "open market" LG V30+ is released. Probably mid-January, which would be SIX weeks after the 64GB variant was released. Same timeline as the LG G6, took them six weeks to place the US997 on the bootloader unlock list. No reason, just took them six weeks.

"not offer the higher-capacity variants concurrently" -- that's the one I don't understand. They force people to buy lower internal memory variant when I would gladly buy higher memory variant if available. Or like when they released the "inclusive" spec LG G6+ a few months later after releasing the stupid "regional" spec LG G6. That made early adopters just feel stupid, because they should have waited -- if they had any way of knowing LG would be that mean to buyers. THAT was the phone that should have been the LG G6, no "+" needed.

"Yeah, we'll release miniscule 32GB LG G6 to U.S. No quad DAC, but they get wireless charging. Then a few MONTHS LATER we'll release a version called the G6+ with 128GB, quad DAC, and wireless charging. BWA HA HA! That will show them to trust us!"

Why would you not release THIS version first? Or at least at the same time? If buyers want something "cheaper" (like silly 32GB, no quad DAC), let the buyers make that choice. Why would you willingly cripple your North America G6 to just 32GB internal memory? (Yes, I know it has a microSD card, I don't care. Internal memory will always be faster and more dependable.)

U.S. buyers were FORCED to buy the crappy 32GB model if they liked your products -- remember these are people who LIKE you -- and then you treat them like crap? A few months later, you then release something much better. I pay for my phones in full, I am not locked to any contracts, but people who go to carrier stores often are. Those are the people LG shafted. The LG G6+ still has "last year's" Snapdragon 821, so very strange they released this in JULY 2017. Made no sense whatsoever. Would have made PERFECT SENSE in February or March 2017, to beat the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+.

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