Reselling Pinephones on ebay to make money out of it?

[Subsentient]

1. I don't know how they could enforce a reselling ban.  I think they already limit purchase quantity.

2.  You do realise that this will likely increase the cost, no?  What are they supposed to do if the demand suddenly drops off?

I have had plenty of shitty used phones in my time, Android mostly. I have several of them sitting in a drawer above my desk. I didn't *want* Android. I wanted Linux.

You see people in the lines at food banks and such with their shitty, OEM spyware loaded prepaid Android phones telling them their account is overdrawn. Lots of these phones display ads on the lock screen, install mysterious chinese-language apps, or worse. I've seen it firsthand at least twice, I'm probably forgetting an incident or two.

I don't mean to sound rude, but there are countless sub-$50 phones on the used market for those who can't afford much.

I don't intend to be rude either, but I do feel the need to state that your tone reeks of entitlement and I feel you should know.

I find it to be a deeply offensive and repugnant thought that the only ones who should be able to afford a device that offers real, genuine freedom should be those with 80k/year salaries.

If they're reselling one or two pinephones here and there, there's no problem. If they're buying them in bulk, there's a big problem.

I don't imagine a doubled batch size should be too much of a problem. Can you really picture PinePhones reaching saturation already? They sell out almost immediately whenever they're produced.