Don't need. Just read the title: "Blame the Asians!". Why not just "Blame the Scalpers!!"
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Don't need. Just read the title: "Blame the Asians!". Why not just "Blame the Scalpers!!"
Asians consist of Chinese, North Korean, South Korean, Pakistan, Russians, Thias, etc. Vietnamese.
Maybe you mean, Chinese people from Hong Kong, China!!
The racial undertone here is really distasteful, can't we (scalpers excepted) get along in harmony?
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What problem? Sales are through the roof and satisfaction is through the roof.
There is no problem. Some are just mad. Quite a difference.
I've yet to meet a "black" or "yellow"person............Or "normal" for that matter what's normal nowadays ???The racial undertone here is really distasteful, can't we (scalpers excepted) get along in harmony?
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That poster is like from 1970.....
I am in Hong Kong and the iPad2 is not released here yet. I don't mind to pay more, but I do mind to feed scalpers. So I wait till I get one from a local official source, or buy one overseas in case I get there.
my ipad buying experience
We decided to buy our daughter an ipad for her birthday. We had no idea it was almost impossible to get one. After calling around for a few days we decided on an apple store that said they get a good amount of ipads delivered every day. Today is her birthday, it was imperative we get one. My son and I got up at 5:00 a.m. and drove 45 minutes to the apple store where they had said if we got there by 7:00, we'd be almost guaranteed to get one. We get there at 6:50 a.m. and were greeted by about 7 asian people who immediately came up to us and said we were 10th on line. Hmmm, I thought 6:50 was early enough but I guess not. Anyway, after awhile, it became apparent that these people were going to buy 2 ipads per person. That means they would walk away with at least 14 ipads which may have been the entire shipment. There were about 3 people behind them when we showed up. I complained immediately upon learning what was about to transpire. Apple people said there was nothing they could do. UGH!!!! After about 1.5 hours of waiting and hoping for the best, the security guards came over and started questioning the "asian" people waiting in line. Apparently, there was trouble with these people before. When the police were called, the lady who told me we were 10th in line disappeared. The 4 still left got as many as they could buy. Fortunately, we were still able to purchase one - whew! I don't mean to be profiling here but every "asian" person waiting in line either got chased away by police or bought 2 each. No one else walked away with 2 ipads each. i was shocked by what happened this morning. I had no idea what was going on. Because of this experience, I googled asians buying ipads and came across this forum. I just wanted to share my experience firsthand. It was an interesting eye opener.
We decided to buy our daughter an ipad for her birthday. We had no idea it was almost impossible to get one. After calling around for a few days we decided on an apple store that said they get a good amount of ipads delivered every day. Today is her birthday, it was imperative we get one. My son and I got up at 5:00 a.m. and drove 45 minutes to the apple store where they had said if we got there by 7:00, we'd be almost guaranteed to get one. We get there at 6:50 a.m. and were greeted by about 7 asian people who immediately came up to us and said we were 10th on line. Hmmm, I thought 6:50 was early enough but I guess not. Anyway, after awhile, it became apparent that these people were going to buy 2 ipads per person. That means they would walk away with at least 14 ipads which may have been the entire shipment. There were about 3 people behind them when we showed up. I complained immediately upon learning what was about to transpire. Apple people said there was nothing they could do. UGH!!!! After about 1.5 hours of waiting and hoping for the best, the security guards came over and started questioning the "asian" people waiting in line. Apparently, there was trouble with these people before. When the police were called, the lady who told me we were 10th in line disappeared. The 4 still left got as many as they could buy. Fortunately, we were still able to purchase one - whew! I don't mean to be profiling here but every "asian" person waiting in line either got chased away by police or bought 2 each. No one else walked away with 2 ipads each. i was shocked by what happened this morning. I had no idea what was going on. Because of this experience, I googled asians buying ipads and came across this forum. I just wanted to share my experience firsthand. It was an interesting eye opener.
Yes, its insane... Unfortunately the scalpers have completely ruined the "Apple launch experience" I enjoyed in the previous years. Oh well...
Whenever I go to Apple Stores and see the lines, it is just a bunch of White people
Damn you, white people!*
*Yes, I am white.
Damn you, white people!*
*Yes, I am white.
For the record I'm Chinese. I went to the Apple Store in Manhasset, NY early Monday morning for a Genius appointment. A bunch of fobby looking Asians were there buying iPad 2's. I don't blame them. There other options are working construction, hard manual labor or sweating in a Chinese restaurant.
I didn't receive any abuse, but then again I was trying to buy the Verizon iPad 2
Gotta love Verizon, the network actually works around the places I frequent, and it's immune from those overseas resellers...
Gang Related
It appears to be an Asian gang - and yes I am aware there are other ethnic gangs. But apparently that group has chosen the iPad2 as it's money maker.
Read here:
http://gothamist.com/2011/03/16/asian_gang_allegedly_buying_up_ipad.php
It appears to be an Asian gang - and yes I am aware there are other ethnic gangs. But apparently that group has chosen the iPad2 as it's money maker.
Read here:
http://gothamist.com/2011/03/16/asian_gang_allegedly_buying_up_ipad.php
+1.
That's like me (a Korean-American) labeling caucasian Americans in the same group with the French.
We decided to buy our daughter an ipad for her birthday. We had no idea it was almost impossible to get one. After calling around for a few days we decided on an apple store that said they get a good amount of ipads delivered every day. Today is her birthday, it was imperative we get one. My son and I got up at 5:00 a.m. and drove 45 minutes to the apple store where they had said if we got there by 7:00, we'd be almost guaranteed to get one. We get there at 6:50 a.m. and were greeted by about 7 asian people who immediately came up to us and said we were 10th on line. Hmmm, I thought 6:50 was early enough but I guess not. Anyway, after awhile, it became apparent that these people were going to buy 2 ipads per person. That means they would walk away with at least 14 ipads which may have been the entire shipment. There were about 3 people behind them when we showed up. I complained immediately upon learning what was about to transpire. Apple people said there was nothing they could do. UGH!!!! After about 1.5 hours of waiting and hoping for the best, the security guards came over and started questioning the "asian" people waiting in line. Apparently, there was trouble with these people before. When the police were called, the lady who told me we were 10th in line disappeared. The 4 still left got as many as they could buy. Fortunately, we were still able to purchase one - whew! I don't mean to be profiling here but every "asian" person waiting in line either got chased away by police or bought 2 each. No one else walked away with 2 ipads each. i was shocked by what happened this morning. I had no idea what was going on. Because of this experience, I googled asians buying ipads and came across this forum. I just wanted to share my experience firsthand. It was an interesting eye opener.
We decided to buy our daughter an ipad for her birthday. We had no idea it was almost impossible to get one. After calling around for a few days we decided on an apple store that said they get a good amount of ipads delivered every day. Today is her birthday, it was imperative we get one. My son and I got up at 5:00 a.m. and drove 45 minutes to the apple store where they had said if we got there by 7:00, we'd be almost guaranteed to get one. We get there at 6:50 a.m. and were greeted by about 7 asian people who immediately came up to us and said we were 10th on line. Hmmm, I thought 6:50 was early enough but I guess not. Anyway, after awhile, it became apparent that these people were going to buy 2 ipads per person. That means they would walk away with at least 14 ipads which may have been the entire shipment. There were about 3 people behind them when we showed up. I complained immediately upon learning what was about to transpire. Apple people said there was nothing they could do. UGH!!!! After about 1.5 hours of waiting and hoping for the best, the security guards came over and started questioning the "asian" people waiting in line. Apparently, there was trouble with these people before. When the police were called, the lady who told me we were 10th in line disappeared. The 4 still left got as many as they could buy. Fortunately, we were still able to purchase one - whew! I don't mean to be profiling here but every "asian" person waiting in line either got chased away by police or bought 2 each. No one else walked away with 2 ipads each. i was shocked by what happened this morning. I had no idea what was going on. Because of this experience, I googled asians buying ipads and came across this forum. I just wanted to share my experience firsthand. It was an interesting eye opener.
Plausible about the police chasing them away, if the prospective purchasers were gang bangers or had gang affiliations. Cops do keep an eye (and a database) on those kind of things.
Say, with the international release, shouldn't this be a dead issue by now?
+1.
That's like me (a Korean-American) labeling caucasian Americans in the same group with the French.
Unless the cheese-eating surrender monkeys are from Algeria or Morocco, that would be correct. Caucasian Americans and Caucasian frenchmen are, by definition, Caucasians.
Does race still have any meaning in the 21st century? One wonders. I have had friends who have gone to the countries their ancestors have emigrated from, and have been rebuffed in their claims of being 'African-American' or 'Irish-American'. Their feelings were hurt by the locals who thought of them simply as 'Americans'. I think the rest of the world views Americans as Americans rather than by racial or ethnic classifications: they think we're ALL a bunch of lazy, bloated, overpaid and self indulgent cry-babies.
