Middlemen UK hoarding iPhone4 bare metal reselling Middle East Asia

Beijing time September 20 morning news, according to foreign media reports, British media survey found that the UK market's iphone 4 bare metal is mostly bought by professional middlemen, and was resold to the Middle East and Asia and other regions.　　This makes it hard for ordinary users to buy the iphone 4 bare metal. At the moment, there is always a long line in front of the UK's Apple retail store. These queues are not ordinary buyers, but professional queues hired by middlemen. Middlemen hoard the new iphone and sell it to areas where iphone 4, such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, have not yet been officially sold.　　The middleman aims at Britain because it is one of the few countries where Apple sells the iphone 4 bare-metal. The UK iphone 4 is priced at 499 pounds and 599 pounds, without bundling any use contracts or locking any carrier networks. Users can use these iphone 4 in any network of operators around the world. These middlemen do not have to sign any deal with Apple, so they can sell the iphone 4 to the most profitable areas.　　If users buy the iphone 4 through operators such as O2 or Vodafone, they will have to use expensive, long protocol services. The middlemen ' hoarding of the iphone 4 bare-metal has affected the purchase of ordinary users. On the market, Apple said the company was unwilling to get involved. Apple has been criticised by distributors for failing to launch the iphone 4 in time for global markets.　　Apple launched its iphone 4 this June and was soon snapped up by global users. Middlemen pay the queue a cost of 70 dollars for each iphone 4 bare metal. They then sold the iphone 4 bare metal to overseas markets at twice times the price. Take part in the sales chain one person said: "This is the case throughout Britain." Wherever there are Apple stores there are middlemen, in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham. "They then sold the iphone 4 bare metal to international buyers who came to the UK to pick up the goods," he said. They abused the system. Apple has failed to take measures to control the situation, which should be blamed. "As the market has a huge demand for the iphone 4, many people have to queue at Apple stores all night."　　Some have even argued and wrestled, and some Apple stores have had to open early to avoid trouble. The Sunday Mail reporter looked at apple stores selling iphone 4 bare metal. Last Thursday, Apple Regent Street retail store sold 230 iphone 4 bare metal.　　In Friday, Apple Covent Garden retail store sold 430 iphone 4 bare metal. At the Covent Garden retail store, around 6:50 A.M., security guards began to stop consumers from joining the queue, and about 230 people lined up in the compartment waiting for the store to open. 7:30 A.M., the retailA manager of the store came out and announced, "We've got the iphone for you, and we're going to open in half an hour." Please keep quiet and keep order. "The store opened at 8 o'clock, and the crowd in front of the queue cheered. "I will bring my cell phone to a friend in Pakistan," said Kim Karn, a 25-year-old queuing man named King Khan. There are no Apple stores. "Then some real consumers came to the store, but were told that the iphone 4 bare metal was sold out before the opening hours of 9 o'clock." The consumers quarreled with shop staff. "I've been here 5 times," said a customer named Abdullah Al Mbadar Abdullah Al mubadal. Security guards just say they don't have any more phones. We are ordinary consumers. "The IPhone 4 is currently not sold in Dubai, Singapore, South Africa, India and China," he said. If you want to buy the iphone 4 bare-metal, users in these areas must pay 400 pounds more than British users. (D-Gold)