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️ lurking around out here. Forgot the username but he was asking what’s the best method to order so that he can buy an iPhone X & sell with more profit.
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We have one
️ lurking around out here. Forgot the username but he was asking what’s the best method to order so that he can buy an iPhone X & sell with more profit.
$ talks too loudly. Scalpers are the inevitable result, sadly.
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Executive bonuses haven't slowed this year for sure.
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So now it’s Apples responsibility to be a subsidiary of the Red Cross? If only you checked before posting this hyperbole. If only this were on topic. If only...
Coming from someone that orders for myself on pre order and use the financing, I do not think it would be fair at all to lock people like me out. I can’t drop 1k all at once, but I can afford the monthly phone bill easily.
I do agree that it should be one per person.
I also think the phone should have to be activated on a wireless account for a minimum of 3 months before it can be unlocked.
Why just one? What if I want to buy 1 for myself and my wife? Or gift my kids? Or buy for my parents? As long as I can pay outright, I should be allowed to buy it.
Then they wait with you. They did that with the first iPhone and even though it was slightly inconvenient, it makes the inventory stretch further.
Locking to an Apple ID is a great idea. Stop the low life scalpers.
And three-four months later you could walk into an Apple store and buy one. No fuss, no muss. Quite possible that any kinks would be worked out by then too.
The best way to get rid of scalpers is to not buy from scalpers.
As Genius says, problematic for a family as well as $.
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What, no more rock concerts or sporting events?
Grab four friends or relatives. Give them all cash. Each one is a considered per customer. Scalping is easier if done in groups if 1 limit per customer is applied.
People don't even have a home or electricity in Houston and Puerto Rico right now. Did Apple donate their own money to help them? Why should Apple care about people getting an iPhone X on launch day just so more of them will be happy?
Their objective seems to be to reach over a trillion dollars in cash reserves and sell iPhones forever and ever until people's credit score are so low. They are a business and not a charity. They won't do favors.
Just be grateful you are actually get an iPhone X whether launch day or weeks later. Most Puerto Ricans are scouring for food right now and with no electricity while others online are worried they may not have "a not so life-changing" product on Nov 3rd.
People don't even have a home or electricity in Houston and Puerto Rico right now. Did Apple donate their own money to help them? Why should Apple care about people getting an iPhone X on launch day just so more of them will be happy?
Their objective seems to be to reach over a trillion dollars in cash reserves and sell iPhones forever and ever until people's credit score are so low. They are a business and not a charity. They won't do favors.
Just be grateful you are actually get an iPhone X whether launch day or weeks later. Most Puerto Ricans are scouring for food right now and with no electricity while others online are worried they may not have "a not so life-changing" product on Nov 3rd.
Also by then, all these people who apparently can’t live without the X will already be salivating over rumours of the next model and making plans to sell their X.
Nice in theory, impossible in practice.
Once you buy something, it is your property and you have every right to sell it, trade it, give it away, whatever.
Apple has no enforceable right to limit what you do with a device once you have bought it. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the terms and conditions, it would be unenforceable. It’s the buyer’s property.
That isn’t to say there is nothing Apple could do. It’s just that most suggestions I’ve seen are silly.
Once you buy something, it is your property and you have every right to sell it, trade it, give it away, whatever.
Apple has no enforceable right to limit what you do with a device once you have bought it. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the terms and conditions, it would be unenforceable. It’s the buyer’s property.
That isn’t to say there is nothing Apple could do. It’s just that most suggestions I’ve seen are silly.
Apple makes the most money from people who can't really afford their products. Why would they alienate this group? Cute, but no.
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Nope. It was intended to be serious. Don't presume to know my mind, Starfyre.
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i think Apple releasing in so many countries at once will cut back on scalping in and of itself.
i think a lot of the past scalpers would send the phones off to other countries were they weren't even available to buy through Apple.
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I know your reply was serious, but my original post you replied to seriously was not being serious. Don’t presume to know my mind, Gathomblipoob.
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Welcome to my ignore list. You finally made it.
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