Hope this trend continues. My Pixel has a solid 5 years left easily but after that this’d be great. Looking at Framework laptops as well.
Cool computers, but Framework supports fascists
Wow a group funded by Linus Tech Tips turns out to be full of chuds, color me surprised
Regional restricted phone. Can’t even deliver through forwarding company because store does not accept payment method with billing address from my country.
European companies struggle with scale. Canada is neglected by Fairphone.
It would be completely fine for me if this company could not deliver the phone to my country. Logistics is difficult and expensive. If i wanted to get one anyway, i could just deliver it through forwading company from my country, for an additional delivery fee. The main problem however, which i am the most outraged about, is that they intentionally restrict payment from countries where they will not deliver, even though i have money and can deliver through third party delivery service.
Take this with a grain of salt as i am not an expert but when i looked into it if you sell knowing it will go to a forwarding service to a specific country legally it then counts as selling to that country and the seller is on the hook for all the regulations so they have to block it.
If you order from another place you’d be importing.
If, for example, you order something from China to somewhere in the European customs union, directly from China and not a European company, you’d be the importer and as such are responsible for following your country’s regulations.
Imagine being a seller and someone from another country, perhaps one you don’t know much about and one that is not in a customs union with the country you are in, orders something from you. There’s no reason you would have to comply with regulations of that country.
I’ll happily accept if im wrong as i am not a lawyer and certainly not a Canadian one, ive tried to find enforcement based on it but i can’t find clear cases on it, this is the legislation:
No person shall manufacture, import, distribute, lease, offer for sale or sell any radio apparatus, interference-causing equipment or radio-sensitive equipment for which a technical acceptance certificate is required under this Act, otherwise than in accordance with such a certificate.
Radiocommunication Act 4(2)
The question becomes does “offer for sale or sell any radio apparatus” also apply to companies outside Canada?
Still, i can imagine a company is not keen on selling products they know are illegal in the destination country, but the seller (outside canada) being liable for the radio act is maybe wrong then.
On the consumer protection part it does seem correct that the foreign seller is on the hook, atleast for provincial law.
This Act applies in respect of all consumer transactions if the consumer or the person engaging in the transaction with the consumer is located in Ontario when the transaction takes place.
Ontario Consumer Protection Act, 2002, s. 2(1)
Again assuming “all” then includes foreign transactions.
