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Thieves Snatch 300+ iPhone X Models From San Francisco Apple Store
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And how is this “tracking” supposed to work?
(New phone is a sealed box. Not powered on...)
Is possession of stolen property a prosecutable offense if you unknowingly purchase the property in a legitimate manner?
Buying a phone via Craigslist Just to be jailed for theft sounds like nonsense to me.
Buying a phone via Craigslist Just to be jailed for theft sounds like nonsense to me.
People really need to be better educated about safe practice. It’s imperative that one checks for bad serial/IMEI numbers before handing over money to unknown sellers.
I doubt they will keep them. They will be sold to more suckers and money will be made.
Hopefully with apples logistics they can get as many there as quickly as possible for customers this is quite awful for a release like this
They possibly didn’t steal them all. And there may have been more delivered besides this one truck.
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So what reference number YOU use to track Apple Store deliveries?
We can track home deliveries from China, but I have never heard of anyone being privy to Apple’s stock replacement tracking numbers for retail stores.
I would assume these guys are familiar with the drop of day for these phones. They had to have this planned since last year.
Sarcasm, right?
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How much you wanna wager that there are some thieves that lurk here and glean knowledge on home deliveries and so on...
Apple can overnight phones directly from the factory to fulfill the pre-orders, that would be nothing for logistics and supply teams to pull off...
This had to have been an inside job of some sort, or information got out about the shipment from a back of house employee at that store. There is just no way they could have known that a random UPS truck parked at a loading dock at a mall just so happened to be an iPhone shipment.
I wonder if these phones will be blacklisted or blocked in anyway at all? The loss is a drop in the bucket for Apple compared to the prospect of 300 public relation and brand perception issues that could arrise from the clueless people that buy them on eBay/Craigslist.
This had to have been an inside job of some sort, or information got out about the shipment from a back of house employee at that store. There is just no way they could have known that a random UPS truck parked at a loading dock at a mall just so happened to be an iPhone shipment.
I wonder if these phones will be blacklisted or blocked in anyway at all? The loss is a drop in the bucket for Apple compared to the prospect of 300 public relation and brand perception issues that could arrise from the clueless people that buy them on eBay/Craigslist.
Has this story even been verified? Every year, I hear a story about iPhones being stolen from a UPS or FedEx trucks right before launch day. I'm not convinced. However, if it IS true, the cops will find those guys before morning. There are cameras all over SF, license plate will trace back to an owner, I mean, come on, this isn't a serial killing we're talking about here.
I think the UPS/FedEx trucks should have surveillance cameras inside the back of the truck, that is super easy to do. If it's too expensive, they could implement them only in the trucks carrying more than "X" (sorry, pun hahaha) iPhones, that is the best solution.
I think the UPS/FedEx trucks should have surveillance cameras inside the back of the truck, that is super easy to do. If it's too expensive, they could implement them only in the trucks carrying more than "X" (sorry, pun hahaha) iPhones, that is the best solution.
You try buying ONE iPhone X on launch day, let alone 300. They may need many of these things to get access to the secure enclave. Also it's well known that SFPD doesn't investigate theft cases, and even when they catch someone, they are out on bail with charges dropped. No chance of prison time.
Well the shipping insurance and ebay buying guarantee are the ones actually holding the bill here
I can be wrong, but aren't all of the phones purchased directly from Apple already carrier unlocked?
300 paperweights and hopefully some felony convictions. Unfortunately they will probably dupe 300 unwitting buyers on the street before that happens.
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Yeah that sucks. The thieves ruined it for the fans willing to camp out overnight. And for 300 unwitting people who will likely buy the soon-to-be useless phones on the street.