OnePlus has announced that it will be halting sales of its flagship device, the OnePlus 3, in a select number of European countries and Hong Kong for over a month. In a post on OnePlus’ official forum, Co-Founder Carl Pei said that the reason behind this move was to give the company time to replenish its inventory as sales of the smartphone in select countries were higher than expected. The countries affected by this move include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Sales of the OnePlus 3 in these countries will be paused from August 9, till September 12.
Pei stated, “We are working hard to secure more stock and fire up more production lines so that we can fulfill our goal of putting premium products into the hands of as many people as possible. With this note I wanted to give customers in affected regions enough advance notice to be able to purchase a OnePlus 3.” This will only affect orders that are placed after August 9, so anyone who purchased the device before that date will get their device as per the estimated delivery date. For those planning to purchase the device, but cannot do so before August 9, the company is offering a service that will notify them when the phone is back in stock. To recall, before the launch of OnePlus 3, Pei had said that the company was ditching the invite system as it was confident that it would be able to keep up with the demand.