In the cost breakdown for the Fairphone 2 , it’s stated that “The projected costs are based on [Fairphone’s] business plan of producing and selling 140,000 phones per year”. Seeing how long it took to reach 15,000 pre-orders for the Fairphone 2 (roughly 2.5 months, 16 July - 28 September), I’m quiet…

I am not sure about the absolute numbers but I think even though the most interested people may already have bought their phones in the last months, there is an important distinction to be made between the pre-order and later selling periods. For pre-orders people need to trust the company much mor…

Pre-orders are much more difficult to sell. Only enthusiasts are ever going to pre-order a €500 phone, 3/4/5 months in advance from a small organisation that has only ever made 1 product before. The vast majority of people don’t buy phones in advance. They buy a new phone when they need one, and ex…

[image] kevr1990: the FP team have spoken about making a big push for selling the phone to businesses I know it’s a different topic, but ooooh would I love to see that! :grinning: Fairphone for businesses … If it was possible to connect the Fairphone with Mobile Device Management Sytems (“MDM…

We are working on it here… :slight_smile: I’ve talked to a guy, who is an event manager for Three Austria and owns a FP1. He said that the Fairphone would fit Three’s slogan “It can also be done differently” (Es geht auch anders) perfectly and that he would spread Fairphone stickers in the marketing…

If they can get it to work in the US and elsewhere - no problem. If they can get the upgrade modules as well as the replacement/repair modules side of things sorted - no problem. If not, well, we’ll see.

[image] Stefan: Maybe we see the Fairphones in Three stores some day… :smile: another company got it: t-mobile (austria)

2016 is more than half way through and I’d like to pick up on this topic again. According to a blog post , Fairphone has sold 40,000 FP2s (as of May '16). Assuming this rate of selling phones was measured from the beginning of 2016, it still would only reach roughly 100,000 phones when projecting th…

As far as I know, they offer an installment payment for German customers.

As I only just found out, this option has been removed :frowning: Fairphone Support confirms there is currently no option of payment in installments through the Fairphone Shop.

You should get your phone at T-Mobile Austria then. :wink: Austria is used as a guinea-pig for the German market. So if T-Mobile is happy with Fairphone sales in Austria, they might offer the FP in Germany as well.

Are 140,000 phones per year too ambitious?

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I’m glad to read that 1 und 1 now also offers their mobile plans with the FP2.

Thanks @urs_lesse for posting this. That encourages me to believe in the 140,000 goal.