Thread: Bezos: Why it won't matter if Fire Phone flops
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Old 12-06-2014, 01:24 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Amazon did not just realize - oh crap, our warehouses are still full of phones, let's sell them now - no they planned to sell them out right then and there. How much missed sales did that cost the competitors? And how much money did they lose compared to Amazon reducing their losses? One lost iphone sale is more expensive to Apple than
Amazon giving away a Fire phone for free.
Surely Amazon is in no trouble due to the FirePhone flop. However, there is no way they PLANNED for it to flop so they could do a firesale (pun intended) to get rid of unsold product.

And yes, the dumping of the unsold product onto the market at cheap prices does affect the competition. Just not likely to be the competition you named -- Apple. Folks that are shopping on price are not the ones buying iPhones in the first place. Samsung, HTC, LG will take a hit as some low end buyers will opt for the Firephone on FireSale rather than theirs.
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