If you are reading this article and stuck in Malaysian roads at this point of time, you’d have known in two days time the Goods & Services Tax (GST) will be implemented on consumer electronics and almost everyone is out there shopping for their new gadgets before the price increases. Oppo, a smartphone maker that makes really gorgeous devices like the N3 and R5, have committed to absorb the GST on their devices and hence no increase in their phone’s retail price.
This is a good news for Oppo smartphone buyers, the company mentioned that they’ve received high demand of orders from customers on their flagship N3 and R5 smartphone in the recent months and have decided not to increase the prices to ease the burden of consumers, it makes a lot of sense since Oppo smartphones have a pretty healthy margin percentage and by selling the products in volume, the company is still sure to reap in profits on their smartphones, if you’re still complaining that Chinese smartphones should be lesser than RM1000, Oppo’s smartphones are really worth paying for and to own, especially the N3 smartphone which we’ve reviewed back then.
Therefore, if you are thinking of buying a smartphone from Oppo and stuck in the road for now, head on back home and enjoy a cup of coffee, because Oppo isn’t going to increase the prices of their phones and stocks are always readily available at their retail outlets. And if you’re asking again, Oppo will absorb the GST on all their phone models, not just only flagships.
