With the possible announcement of the 3G iPhone only a week away, many current iPhone owners are itching to upgrade, which takes money. Other people, finally bitten by the iPhone bug, are eager to buy one, only they are harder to find in stores. This creates a nice, natural supply-and-demand formula that we managed to exploit not once but twice on eBay. Not only did I sell my iPhone in 24 hours, but I sold it for more than I paid.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 11:48 PMThe iPhone comes out in Australia very soon. I don’t think they will have the locked to x network like in other countries.
What they should have done is just put all the iPhones on eBay and none in stores. Just list them, one after the other, you could even number them. Could you imagine how much a fan boy would pay for iPhone #0000001!
They could sell 1 every second for the first few weeks I think, start them at 1c each with 7 day eBay auctions and I bet the first one off the blocks would sell for thousands (even if it wasn’t individually numbered / serialized).