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How much money do you think resellers LOST today?

CrAkD

CrAkD

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I know the scalpers were out in full force but im yet to hear of any stores that actually sold out....if you can walk into a store and buy one no one is going to pay you double for it.....I imagine the overseas scalpers will still make a little but im sure that even got effected since apple is rolling out the international launch so quickly.
 
Yep. I'm glad that Apple was able to produce enough to meet demand. I hate to see scalpers making money on something like this...
 
yeah its good to see that apple really put in alot of effort after the horror show of the ipad 2 launch.
 
CrAkD said:
I know the scalpers were out in full force but im yet to hear of any stores that actually sold out....if you can walk into a store and buy one no one is going to pay you double for it.....I imagine the overseas scalpers will still make a little but im sure that even got effected since apple is rolling out the international launch so quickly.
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iPad is different iPhone is different

just an fyi, the unlocked iPhone 4S not even available, no one is going to take two year to sell the iPhone 4S and make profit (there will be some people not the scalpers)
 
Scalpers will make money here in NZ, since the 4S has not yet been launched here and likely won't be for a few months.

But you can't scalp iPhones very well, as they have a limit of 2 per person... hardly worth it to go overseas, get them and bring them back.:confused:
 
SFStateStudent said:
iPhone 4S are selling for $975-$1100 on ebay and craigsllist, so they aren't doing too bad...:eek:
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Selling or sold ? I think the old design help to make sure that had enough stock , plus 3 carriers have it now, so ain't the hard to get one as before
 
jgalan14 said:
Selling or sold ? I think the old design help to make sure that had enough stock , plus 3 carriers have it now, so ain't the hard to get one as before
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Most of the people buying from ebay or CL are stuck in a contract and can't upgrade w/o paying $649 plus tax and activation fees for the 16GB. The new iPhone 4S is compatible with three carriers plus T-Mobile, so GSM/CDMA are both compatible on every 4S, and that's incentive to buy out of contract via ebay or cl; and yes, selling & sold...
 
How much did the resellers lose today?

None.

They had a set amount of inventory, sold them at the set price and made what they should have.

The real question is, how much have these scalpers made from doing this? Answer: A lot.
 
shanmugam said:
just an fyi, the unlocked iPhone 4S not even available, no one is going to take two year to sell the iPhone 4S and make profit (there will be some people not the scalpers)
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The way the Apple employees were talking at the store I was at today implied that I could have bought my phone for full price if I didn't want to renew my AT&T contract.
 
shanmugam said:
iPad is different iPhone is different

just an fyi, the unlocked iPhone 4S not even available, no one is going to take two year to sell the iPhone 4S and make profit (there will be some people not the scalpers)
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you can buy unlocked ones in europe. I doubt the europeans give a crap about the US scalpers. My european buddy just walked in and bought unlocked 4s for himself and his gf.

ps: this was in london.
 
SFStateStudent said:
Most of the people buying from ebay or CL are stuck in a contract and can't upgrade w/o paying $649 plus tax and activation fees for the 16GB. The new iPhone 4S is compatible with three carriers plus T-Mobile, so GSM/CDMA are both compatible on every 4S, and that's incentive to buy out of contract via ebay or cl; and yes, selling & sold...
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So why would they pay a scalper $1000 for a phone they can buy legit for $649?

I am sure international buyers will cause some profits, but probably 0 on the domestic side.
 
SGMD1 said:
Why?
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Because the retail market is for end users, not for resellers.

Legit Resellers have channels through which they can get iPhone supplies for resale.

Apple means for all the retail units to get into the hands of users, so that users can have a good experience getting one.

When Resellers interfere with that they cause a lot of grief to consumers who are unable to get one unit for themselves because some resellers are selling for example 8,000 of them to international buyers.

That 8,000 units could have made 8,000 people very happy instead of very sad (if the product was sold out that is).

I hope all of Apple's product launches are well stocked enough going forward that everyone who wants a device on launch day/week could get one legitimately from Apple.

Again, I must reiterate, the purpose of retail is to sell to end users not to resellers. Informal scalpers are really breaking the rules (and they don't pay taxes on their proceeds either!)
 
Gregintosh said:
Again, I must reiterate, the purpose of retail is to sell to end users not to resellers. Informal scalpers are really breaking the rules (and they don't pay taxes on their proceeds either!)
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They don't have to pay tax on the proceeds--they've already paid it on the original purchase.
 
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shanmugam said:
CrAkD said:
I know the scalpers were out in full force but im yet to hear of any stores that actually sold out....if you can walk into a store and buy one no one is going to pay you double for it.....I imagine the overseas scalpers will still make a little but im sure that even got effected since apple is rolling out the international launch so quickly.
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iPad is different iPhone is different

just an fyi, the unlocked iPhone 4S not even available, no one is going to take two year to sell the iPhone 4S and make profit (there will be some people not the scalpers)
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The unlocked 4S's are available. I'm writing this post on one now.
 
Slightly off topic but had something interesting happen yesterday. At this point I already had my 4S so I was good. A friend found a guy selling a "16GB 4S" on Craigslist. We went looked at it, and as he was calling I noticed there wasnt a sim slot. I told my friend he had just been had. Luckily, he hadn't given the guy his $$ yet. I wonder how many unknowing, non techy, people who don't have an eye for detail are gonna get screwed like that? It's going to happen, because the two phones are identical and unless u happen to have infinity blade or a photo editing program to check the res of the pic the phone takes it would be hard to tell the difference if u haven't been keeping up in the phone world. Yikes, methinks some people are going to be paying $600-$1000 if not more the next couple of months while the S is is sold out and only end up with a 4.

That said, the 4 runs iOS 5 wonderfully. Much much better than any 4.x release I've ever used.
 
I was queuing at an Apple Store in the UK and I'm convince almost everyone in the first 50 people were scalpers. There were loads of Chinese people (don't mean to sound racist or anything, lol) and literally every single one of them were buying two 16GB iPhones.
Looked quite organised too as if it was some sort of school trip, they had clipboards with names on and everything :D
 
Sold out where I live :(

I wanted 16gb... they do have 33gb but not sure I really need that space for an extra £100
 
Loads of stores sold out in the uk so I guess they will be making a decent amount here.
 
SFStateStudent said:
Most of the people buying from ebay or CL are stuck in a contract and can't upgrade w/o paying $649 plus tax and activation fees for the 16GB. The new iPhone 4S is compatible with three carriers plus T-Mobile, so GSM/CDMA are both compatible on every 4S, and that's incentive to buy out of contract via ebay or cl; and yes, selling & sold...
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Wait, wha? Unless the price of the same phone on ebay/cl is less than $649 + tax I don't see how this makes any sense.
 
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