Very disappointed by the approach for my first purchase… On Tuesday, the Fairphone 6 (along with a case and screen protector) was in my cart. After taking some time to finalize my decision, I returned on Wednesday to find a €50 increase on the base price—right as the 6+ was announced. When I reach…

Hello and welcome to the community forum [image] charlotte1: Quietly raising prices on items in an active cart right when launching a higher model is a standard tech industry practice Please note there was hardly anything quiet about this price raised, it was instead communicated by FP thems…

If you go to the supermarket one day, spot a product you want to buy and come back the next day you cannot insist on getting it for yesterday’s price, either. Fairphone’s webshop could have forgotten your cart during the night, too. Would that have been better? I understand that you’re annoyed by t…

Nobody has just bad luck these days anymore. There must always be something grand and sinister afoot.

[image] charlotte1: Shame for a first interaction, it really makes me want to spend my money on other brands, since this one isn’t any more ethical than the others. It still is. There’s more people involved in this than you personally … Read Fairphone’s latest Impact Report here.

Consider yourself lucky. Now you can choose Fairphone 6 or Fairphone 6+.

I can see the OP’s point as this is their first post. Not everyone follows the company everyday and it is totally fine for someone to be blindsided by this decision. @charlotte1 us hardcore fans paid 599€ last year and it IS a fair price. I’m guessing the 6+ has to be 649€ at launch to be profitable…

speaking of unethical. the shipping emails of FP are containing only tracking and obfuscated links (each and ever single link inside the email) by a company called exponea dot com / bloomreach so much for selling all my data to just the next best company out there. fair-phone company? unfair pr…

Unethical business practices

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Meaghan August 19, 2026, 11:08am 2

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Please note there was hardly anything quiet about this price raised, it was instead communicated by FP themselves in a newsletter