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Not really, at least not very likely which you seem to be implying, and the reasoning should be obvious.
1) it’s a limited number of markets which cuts potential buyers down.
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That's pretty meaningless. Are you suggesting that only if a product is being sold in every market in the world will anyone notice that it is seriously faulty?
That's absurd.
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2) the Aura One didn’t sell well enough in those markets to have depleted the stock. So there’s a limited demand.
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That's beyond absurd!
You are taking your personal speculation that there are only a very small number of items available as a proven fact and then making a deduction from that unproven speculation.
Sorry to be blunt but that really is ridiculous.
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3) Kobo isn’t advertising them, they’re on the sites for the markets they’re in but nothing is driving traffic to the product page. Which cuts down on buyers. I’d note that the fact that they’ve been available since the start of this year and I think this is the first post about that being the case would further show a lack of buyers from the forum.
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Yet more weird and wonderful speculation.
It could just as easily be the case that people have bought them, checked them, and are completely happy with them, and hence have no need to report anything here.
It's a well known fact that people are many, many, times more likely to review/post about something that does not meet their expectations than something that does.
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Think of a Venn diagram of all those factors. Someone would have to thread through all of them and even then the Aura one they purchased would have to not be a back up device if their current device broke, nor could it be a secondary device for split reading. Since both those would detract from noticing the battery had issues.
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In reality I think that anyone spending that much on an obviously highly valued device is going to immediately give it a proper test to ensure that it is working properly, rather than waiting, and possibly letting the device go out of warranty.
At least if they have any sense they will.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems to me unlikely in the extreme that Kobo would knowingly sell what are effectively faulty products, and equally unlikely that there would be no internet trace if they were.
Anyway, all this pessimistic speculation is pretty pointless to me as I will have concrete evidence, one way or the other, fairly soon.