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OnePlus One will be sold via invitations!

AndiApril 17, 2014

If you want to get your hands on the OnePlus One Android phone you won’t be expected to preorder the device and wait, instead you will have to be invited!

In usual OnePlus fashion the OnePlus One phone will not be sold in a normal manner, so no waiting online (or in a long queue) hoping to be one of the lucky few to but it at launch. Instead fans will be invited to buy the phone! We are not 100% sure how OnePlus will send out the first lot of invites, but the chances are high that active forum members will be among the first to get a chance to buy the phone.

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The good news is that once the first invites are sent out those invited will be able to invite others and so on. According to OnePlus invites will also be available through cometitions, and via their forum.

I can personally see the benefits of such a system, but can also see how some fans are going to be rather angry and put off. What do you think about this invitation only system?

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Andi

I don’t know what to say really. Why must everything be different with 1+?
Yury
April 17, 2014
really bad idea
tonio93
April 17, 2014
Stupide idea, so i’ll buy a zte star 1 or an mi3s or find 7a, bye bye one+1 And for 4g There si nô 800mhz band

RRRobert
April 17, 2014
Is April 17 China’s equivalent of April’s Fools Day?
Anyway, for obvious reasons I can understand why they don’t want to cause a run on websites selling popular phones, similar to what happened when the various Xiaomi phones went on sale. But buying on invitation only, that’s still a silly idea. It will only increase the hype and I believe it might even turn against you in the end.
Paulo Jorge
April 17, 2014
Really bad idea. i want to buy the phone and if i don’t get 1 invite im really gonna start to think about other phones (x8) and other people might think like this

Peter Pain
April 17, 2014
I can see people buying one plus phones due to price and spec BUT really disliking the company for their terrible marketing. Is there a thread on the forum for their bad marketing and why people dislike it 🙂
waterresist
April 17, 2014
Who knows. We may buy One+ invitations for $0,01 on Ebay just like the gmail invitations in the old times 🙂

Rob
April 17, 2014
Thats another phone crossed off my list then. Waited all this time for nothing it seems.
i’m also quite tired of their stunts.
Jeff Nield
April 17, 2014
Looks like this is a dumb idea. I say sack the Marketing and PR guy. Time to get totally original and think outside of the box. This will only turn folk off the product.
Xiaolu
April 17, 2014
They’re free to do as they wish: I mean, if YOU want to buy a phone like the OnePlus One at a price THAT LOW, then you must follow their rules. There’s nothing out there you can compare it to. That’s all.
- desponent
  April 18, 2014
  And the customer is free to do otherwise. I mean if you want to win them as a new unproven company, this invitation thing is surely the right thing to do right?
  lol