TBH, I really don't care if these Asian resellers are poor, have no homes, or have no food. The fact is, It's not right and never will be right to buy up almost all of a product, and send it off to Hong Kong. These Ipad's were meant for the wholesome citizens of America, euro trash can wait till Friday!
Great bit of sarcasm that gets to the heart of the matter!
For the iPad3, maybe Apple should launch first in China & Hong Kong & save FedEx the round trip?
Indeed. The original poster stated that this is "Apple's problem", but then drew the wrong conclusions, suggesting that Apple should somehow discriminate who they sell to. If I was an Apple shareholder, the conclusion I would draw (if the premise in the original article is correct and most of these are going back to Asia), is that Apple should have launched in Asia first, and sold the iPad at a higher price as well. It's not too late, maybe they can temporarily shut down the US launch and divert all shipments to whichever country has the most people willing to spend the most. Oh, but many of you folks following this thread wouldn't like that, now would you?
Instead, I saw articles of organized people who hired the homeless to stand in line for them. They came in all colors but many homeless where African-American in some major cities. Did we see an article blaming the lack of Nintendo Wii's on poor homeless African Americans hoping to earn an easy buck? Of course not. Because that would be racist. But somehow its not racist to blame Asians for the whole reason why no one can get any iPad 2's?
How's this for racist? I'm glad that my fellow Asian American brothers and sisters are finally embracing the American way and have finally figured out how to beat the rest of the American population in grabbing the next hot thing to make a quick buck!
Well, I don't know that I'd agree that if they had been black people that we wouldn't see the same thing, but I agree that this is the free market, and it's a good thing. Get in line early, pay more to buy from a reseller, get lucky, or order online and wait 4-5 weeks. But please, people, stop complaining about it.
Too bad, for most people, that jobs interfere with this strategy. Tough to compete with people who's only job is to stand in line.
Boo hoo! Isn't it awful that because of these impoverished people just trying to get enough money to get by for another day (people who, gasp, don't even care about the iPad's magical abilities!), that some well-off fair-skinned American citizen can't pile up more debt on their credit card to buy another shiny gadget that they absolutely can't live 4-5 weeks without! FWIW, I have nothing against well-off fair-skinned American citizens. I am one.
Look on the bright side, everyone: If you order an iPad 2 online today, you can get it in 4-5 weeks. But in 4-5 weeks, the average poor Asian depicted in this article will be wondering how they're going to put food on the table for another week.
As for me, I bought two iPad 2's and sold one on CraigsList for a $180 profit. At first I felt a bit guilty about it, since I know that there were a lot of people here that were depressed that they couldn't score one for themselves. But threads like this make me feel less apologetic about it.
