[OnePlus 6 Guides, News, & Discussion] magnamentis:
in defense of OP you miss the point IMHO:

a) in that numbers they sell to such people or enterprises it's obvious that they're dealers

b) this point a pointed at in almost each post and not one reply takes care of it.

. if i buy a device on amazone 3 months after release date, sourced may be manyfold while on release day there is only one

. possible legal source, oneplus themselves and since they only deliver to dealers before release date which must be the case if

. such a dealer can deliver on day one, they MUST be aware of it and give a sh....t.

only remaining possibility that would lead all my reasoning ad absurdum would be if the devices were stolen in bulk (container wise)

but then it would become obvious very quickly due to serial numbers and IMEI's hence not a very probable scenario.

my point, i repeat, is, that oneplus has shipped many ten thousands of devices world wide to customers that bought in bulk through

reseller channels which makes it absurd that after doing so they claim that those large customers/dealers are no re-sellers for them.

as to faulty hardware, official and non-official is only a legal distinction while following my line of thinking which probably is the line of thinking of everyone who bought through such channels and had the bad luck to get a faulty device, is, that it's bad business conduct.

i'm quite certain that all the defenders here in this thread are either:

a) lucky and have baught through OP or official re-sellers without being aware of that fact and no claim to be smarter than those with bad luck

b) working for oneplus

c) receiving test/review/development devices from oneplus and of course can't risk their status by chiming in on the stark truth.

and last but not least and to avoid any misunderstanding:

i very much like my OP6 and all OP devices before, even the OP2 that was a mispurchase is still in action and i can't say that i don't like it too, it just took a few tweaks and effort to make it work the way i want.

the OP6 and OOS 5.x.x is an absolutely great combo and i consider to stick to OOS+xXs+Xposed to geht 99% of what i want. it's the first piece of stock software that i've ever considered to stick to it.

so over all i'm a happy customer and the 2.50$ for that motor has not been able to spoil my experience.

what we are talkiing here is "ATTITUDE" and believe it or not. to think and look ahead is my main business and i'm close to a 100% quota in predicting issues and this WILL either be re-considered by OP or it will cost them, if not this time than later, because once in the future they'll meet the wrong victim that is willing and strong enough to give them a fight over it and it could well happen once they have bad luck and face a larger than usual amount of warranty cases.

no you can bookmark this and read again when it happens.

after all this thread should make a few guys there starting to re-consider this policy and catching the right guy attention.

just imagine more victims of this policy would do the same, soon the energy would turn against them and after all i keep things civil and friendly,

i'm just hinting and opening a discussion, facing opposition of course from fanboys who are not touched and benefactors who don't want to loose their grounds