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Claimed iPhone 6 Prototype Appears on eBay With Bids Reaching $89,000
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hahahahahahahahahaha !!!!! That was the funniest thing I read all day!!
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Reason I stopped using eBay. Got screwed over twice as seller and buyer. Buyer for getting empty boxes and seller for buyer claiming I sent empty boxes and all four times I lost.
Really? We both know what it means. They know what they actually said but we all know whet they are trying to say.
Its like Microsoft releasing a new ad for Win10 and saying, A great breakthrough in security only found in Windows 10 - No Mac viruses.
I would bet anything that Apple is all over this by now and I'm sure someone at Apple is going to purchase this back from the women and be the high bidder.
This is tangential but my friend orderd Vans shoes online and inside the box next to the shoes was a Foxconn ID card for some chinese factory worker. He thinks it fell in there by accident
Well said.
So true, I hate PayPal. They act as they are an escrow service when all they are supposed to do is send money to people.
If it's a prototype or an internal-only test unit, then I think there is value as a collectible or as a museum piece.
If it's a production unit that failed its tests or accidentally shipped before assembly was complete (or a fake,) then yes, it's probably worthless.
I wouldn't want to use it as my regular phone, but I can understand why someone would want it, depending on what it really is.
My guess is to distinguish it from a completed production unit. To make sure it doesn't accidentally ship to a customer.
If it's an actual prototype, it might indicate that this is not a normal Lightening connector. There might be a debug/test port in there instead of what normally ships.
Your explanation of the process (and the red jack) makes a lot of sense.
WRT the laser etching, keep in mind also that the text there probably varies from country to country and maybe even from carrier to carrier (e.g. if the CDMA and GSM versions have identical hardware and only differ WRT firmware and microcode.) So it makes sense that the etching wouldn't take place until the build is complete.
I sense an email fromto this user.
Dear Sir,
Please return our device in exchange for a new iPhone 6, iPad Air etc.
You forgot the part... "or we will submit a intent to sue to our attorneys"
If he did indeed receive the unit through Verizon as a genuine order, Apple would have no grounds to claim it back or request the auction's removal, but that seems extremely unlikely.
More likely is this is a unit that was acquired somehow from development, and then Apple may have grounds to claim it as being stolen.
More likely is this is a unit that was acquired somehow from development, and then Apple may have grounds to claim it as being stolen.
If your 5s is priced right... it'll sell immediately. The basics of selling in the market all revolve around price and condition. What fails to sell is mostly overpriced. It's not what you think is worth, it's what the market will pay.
Look at the bidder list. Most or all have only bid once...on ANYTHING at ebay. This is a scam with fake bidders.
kimberlyk is actually a north korean spy:kimberlyk1018 has some sexy looking man-hands.
kim be(e) r(i) lyk (like) 1018 (short for October 18 which is when U.S. officials said that North Korea's military has informed the People's Republic of China it intends to carry out a series of underground nuclear tests)
No. That would be like looking at an empty file folder to glean what the paper file (which was never in the folder to begin with) had printed on it.
Your English is excellent. I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't mention it.
I really love the word "dongle".