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First I want to say please don't hate on anyone especially me.

Day one I lined up and got shot down on my At&t iPad dreams and got stuck with Verizon. At first I liked it, but then noticed after a couple days that the service wasnt as good as my original At&t iPad. So my decision was made, return my iPad 2 within 14 days and buy the At&t one I desire. Well things don't always work out so easy, as u may have heard, NY has quite a scalper problem and I fell victim to them day after day at my local apple store (staten island). So I turned to my friends here at macrumors for some perspective as to what the rest of the iPad world have been doing and stumbled upon the target info thread and read and read and read and stumbled upon a user named jmgore75 who posted a python scriptwho I believe modified someone's script but am not sure. Anyway I first brushed it off but then decided to give it a try. After one whole night of nothing(closed stores) and a good chunk of my morning gone, I get an email!! Ding. 10:37am jersey city has 64gb At&t in stock I jump in the car and race over. On my way, another email that says the staten island store has the same unit in stock. I call target and ask the question that they have heard 60000 times. Any iPads? Answer was a quick no! I hung up and called back, this time I got a yes , i said can u please hold it for me , followed by a no sorry... But I was close to the store. I screeched into a parking spot and sprinted to the electronics and was greeted by a security guard. Are u the guy he says. I smiled and said yup. Can I buy two. He said yes I got them and as I walked away was a scalper looking for it. I got out with the last 2 64 at&ts. I hastily post one on CG and got a bite for 1350. Sold in an hour.
So I now have an AT&t and a Verizon( which is being returned shortly to apple )
So I wanna say thanks to macrumors site and thanks to the original script writer. This was a great bday gift for me. I paid 470 for a 64at&t iPad after the sale. Thanks again
 
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cool story bro. except for the part where you turn into a scalper yourself :rolleyes: if you were so against them you should of sold it for retail to one of the 500 people here looking for one.
 
I thought it was a great story :). So what if you are too excited to separate paragraphs?

Love that you got one for yourself and sold one for a profit, too. Seems like almost everybody else is, so why not you, too?

Congratulations!:D

First I want to say please don't hate on anyone especially me.

Day one I lined up and got shot down on my At&t iPad dreams and got stuck with Verizon. At first I liked it, but then noticed after a couple days that the service wasnt as good as my original At&t iPad. So my decision was made, return my iPad 2 within 14 days and buy the At&t one I desire. Well things don't always work out so easy, as u may have heard, NY has quite a scalper problem and I fell victim to them day after day at my local apple store (staten island). So I turned to my friends here at macrumors for some perspective as to what the rest of the iPad world have been doing and stumbled upon the target info thread and read and read and read and stumbled upon a user named jmgore75 who posted a python scriptwho I believe modified someone's script but am not sure. Anyway I first brushed it off but then decided to give it a try. After one whole night of nothing(closed stores) and a good chuck of my morning gone I get an email!! Ding. 10:37am jersey city has 64gb At&t in stock I jump in the car and race over. Om my way another email that the staten island store has the same unit in stock. I call target and ask the question that they have heard 60000 times. Any iPads? Answered was a quick no! I hung up and called back, this time I got a yes where i said can u please hold it for me , followed by a no sorry... But I was close to the store. I screeched into a parking spot and sprinted to the electronics and was greeted by a security guard. Are u the guy he says. I smiled and said yup. Can I buy two. He said yes I got them and as I walked away was a scalper looking for it. I got out with the last 2 64 at&ts. I hastily post one on CG and get a bit for 1350. Sold in an hour.
So I now have an AT&t and a Verizon( which is being returned shortly to apple )
So I wanna say thanks to macrumors site and thanks to the original script writer. This was a great bray gift for me. I paid 470 for a 64at&t iPad after the sale. Thanks again
 
I thought it was a great story :). So what if you are too excited to separate paragraphs?
I thought it was a great story :). So what if you are too excited to separate paragraphs?

Love that you got one for yourself and sold one for a profit, too. Seems like almost everybody else is, so why not you, too?


Congratulations!:D
lol thanks,

i was excited,

and i was writing in a moving car on my ipad.

Sorry everyone who is sour about not being smart

Are These enough breaks for you!



S p a c e b a r i s y o u r f r i e n d

Huh? So you took it away from a scalper... just to scalp it yourself?

whats wrong with that, i never said i hated scalpers, they frustrated me!!! so i frustrated them!!! Oh and By the way, if anyone was willing to pay 1350 for an ipad to sell it themselves are not very bright. The profit margins arent great enough. How much are they going to make 200....





anyway so now to put it into perspective

i sold this ipad i bought for 909 for 1350 netting me 441
i also sold my old ipad for 550 on ebay (64gb AT&T iPad1)
bringing my Net to 991
new ipad cost me 909
so i got a new ipad for 81 bucks(minus my intial purchase a year ago)

FLAME ON :mad::apple:
 
Hey, safety first. :p Anyway, great to read about your success story & congrats on snagging one. :)

Thanks and ur right btw. I'm typin and driving right now. And I know some people would like to me to crash cause they are haters.

Ps returned my veripad already
 
Thanks and ur right btw. I'm typin and driving right now. And I know some people would like to me to crash cause they are haters.

Ps returned my veripad already

Whoa seriously I beg you not to text/type when driving =( . . . I don't want you to crash. It's simply not worth trying. Your life worth more than a few seconds you think you can save by doing that.
 
Whoa seriously I beg you not to text/type when driving =( . . . I don't want you to crash. It's simply not worth trying. Your life worth more than a few seconds you think you can save by doing that.

B...b...b...but he just had to share his excitement!
 
whats wrong with that, i never said i hated scalpers, they frustrated me!!! so i frustrated them!!! Oh and By the way, if anyone was willing to pay 1350 for an ipad to sell it themselves are not very bright. The profit margins arent great enough. How much are they going to make 200....

Um, it's not "frustrating the scalpers" people criticize you for. It's "frustrating the average consumers by scalping yourself" that earns you a few marks against ya.
 
This is a frustrating thread to read you state your annoyance with scalpers just to become one within a short time frame while still having an iPad just not an appropriate version that you'll likely scalp to!

I think the remainder of the posters have said it but fail!
 
This is a frustrating thread to read you state your annoyance with scalpers just to become one within a short time frame while still having an iPad just not an appropriate version that you'll likely scalp to!

I think the remainder of the posters have said it but fail!

First off Canada FAIL
Robins williams said it best
"God bless you Canadian people. You're so ****ing nice eh. "
"Canada's like a loft apartment over a really great party. "

and i must say fail i did not.. i succeeded in getting the ipad i wanted for a lot less money and managed to scalp an ipad to a scalper and made more then he is going to make... duh #WINNING
 
First off Canada FAIL
Robins williams said it best
"God bless you Canadian people. You're so ****ing nice eh. "
"Canada's like a loft apartment over a really great party. "

and i must say fail i did not.. i succeeded in getting the ipad i wanted for a lot less money and managed to scalp an ipad to a scalper and made more then he is going to make... duh #WINNING

Wait, you actually think you sold that unit to a scalper? Seriously?
 
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Stealthipad said:
^what he said.

Paragraphs can be your friend!

And spellcheck. Builds character.
 
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And spellcheck. Builds character.

yeah thanks.. typed most of these from my NEW IPAD WHILE ON THE ROAD...

Reading Others posts Besides the first is also your friend...
 
whats wrong with that, i never said i hated scalpers, they frustrated me!!! so i frustrated them!!! Oh and By the way, if anyone was willing to pay 1350 for an ipad to sell it themselves are not very bright. The profit margins arent great enough. How much are they going to make 200....

You care so much to call the person who goes to the counter after you a scalper, when you have literally no idea what the intentions of the other person might be.

Lots of folks are getting one for themselves or for their family members. So we don't know what their intention may have been, but we certainly know what YOUR intention was...

I was in competition with another iPad purchaser at Target last week. Though we both wanted exactly the same thing, he was there first and I gladly kept my mouth shut while he asked for what he wanted while I sweated out whether they had another in back. It turns out they did. It really saddened me to see the other guy think that I would try to screw him out of his purchase.
 
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