Amazon slashes Fire Phone prices again

Shoppers can now buy an unlocked Fire Phone for $199. Amazon cut the price of its struggling smartphone by $250.

Nov. 26, 2014 9 AM PT

The cuts keep coming. Amazon has slashed the price of its struggling Fire smartphone again, to $199 for an unlocked 32-gigabyte version with no contract.

The $250 discount, good through Cyber Monday, comes as the Seattle-based company struggles with sales -- the Fire Phone has flopped since it began selling in July. In September, Amazon cut the price of a Fire without an AT&T contract from $649 to $449. The company also cut the price of the phone with a two-year contract from $199 to just 99 cents at that time.

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FOR THE RECORD

An earlier version of this post said Amazon cut the price of an unlocked Fire without an AT&T contract from $649 to $449. The phone in question was not an unlocked phone.

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Last month, Amazon’s chief financial officer, Tom Szkutak, told investors that the company took a $170-million charge because of slow Fire sales. Amazon had $83 million worth of unsold phones at the end of the third quarter, Szkutak said.

The Fire Phone will continue to come with a free year of Amazon’s Prime service, normally $99 per year. Prime offers access to features such as two-day shipping and access to Amazon Instant Video.

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Sarah Parvini was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times from 2014 to 2024. She most recently covered the video game industry and previously wrote about California’s diverse communities, with a focus on the state’s shifting demographics. She was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, as well as a member of the investigative unit that uncovered scandals at USC’s medical school. The child of immigrants, she speaks fluent Persian and conversational Spanish.

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