I would have to say that people like me who got the new iPhone 3G S within the first two days would consider ourselves to be really lucky people. There’s the clean market, the Apple Store or ordered from Apple.com with activation availability. Then there’s the dirty market, the deep and dark tricks that people will do just to get more bang for the buck that the sucker is supposed to pay.
Let’s be honest, who doesn’t use eBay once in a while? I don’t like eBay because “what you get is what you get” and what you get just might be a rip-off. You don’t know what you’re going to get. Since I got my iPhone 3G S, I thought it might be funny to see how much I would have paid if I turned towards the eBay path. Don’t tell me this isn’t ridiculous:
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This is what people would pay JUST to get a $199 iPhone. Let alone $99 for the original iPhone 3G. So why are they doing this? Because America and the world is a sucker for all of these new stuff. I know Hong Kong “wants and willing-to-buys” and believe me, of the Hongkongers I know, they’ll spend HK$6,000 if they want to on an iPhone 3G S that costs USD$199 (HK$1,542.27). Just going to a market there in an area like the Wan Chai Computer Centre (Wan Chai, Hong Kong) or even Shenzhen’s most commercialized area (Luohu, Shenzhen, Southern People’s Republic of China) will rip you off. I am not saying that they’re bad, but really, just get one from the appropriate seller… get it from Apple, AT&T, 3HK, O2, or some other network provider that actually sells the iPhone 3G S for an actual lower rate than sellers in unofficial markets like eBay. It’s worth it and unless you want to see the prices you’re seeing above on the screenshot, you’ll really want to shop at the carrier’s store or wherever it is authorized to be sold!
Oh, and best of all, enjoy the iPhone 3G S! It has lots to offer like it does to me!
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