Passport, of course, has a higher price, which for us in Europe is above $250, but there are more than enough resellers and the device can be bought for cash in some countries in our area.
Afaik, only one store in our coutry sells Passport, and its an online store (Protis). I am on the lookout for a new hardware wallet and at the moment Passport is my first choice but I would prefer if I can buy it in a physical store.
He probably doesn't know about the FTX incident.
That doesn't have to be the case. I know a few people that have money stuck on both Celsius and FTX yet they still have coniderable amount of crypto on centralzied exchanges (mainly Binance) so majorify of people simply don't learn anything even from their own mistakes, let alone others.