Markets in Everything: #1 Spot in Line for iPad 2
Mashable -- "College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new Apple product into a lucrative odd job. After nearly 41 hours of waiting in line for the iPad 2 release at Apple’s flagship store in New York, she sold her #1 spot for $900.
Foote sat through an entire day of rain, had a stranger help himself to a box of doughnuts she was eating, and slept a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes in the time between when she got in line at 5 p.m. Wednesday and when she left it at 9:00 a.m. Friday. She plans to buy tickets to a Lady Gaga concert with the cash that she earned.
The buyer, app developer Hazem Sayed, says he is planning on leaving for a business trip Friday evening and wants to have an iPad 2 (which starts at $499) with him."
MP: On eBay, an auction for an iPad 2 just ended at a price of $1,525 with 10 bids. Hey, isn't that "Apple scalping?"
MP: On eBay, an auction for an iPad 2 just ended at a price of $1,525 with 10 bids. Hey, isn't that "Apple scalping?"
5 Comments:
Of course, one has to ask: lady gaga tickets go for 900?
when cream got back together in 2005, that would be worth the 900 bucks. BUT OMG LADY GAGA IS SO SHOCKING
Maybe Apple should just charge a highe price for the first day or two. And they could donate the extra money to charity if anyone complains.
" And they could donate the extra money to charity if anyone complains"...
You mean the shareholders, right?
They could do that or some other charity. That might bring them some great PR. But I agree, it would be best for Apple to do what ever it wants with the money.
AT first I thought, what a clever way to earn extra money, but she is wasting the $900.00 on Lady Gag-Gag concert tickets.
There are markets in everything, including bad taste in music.
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