Parallel Importers Hire scalpers to snap up iPhone4: Pay hundred dollars per phone

Cattle queuing to rob IPhone4 every buy a profit hundred parallel importers price thousand Yuan reselling reporter paparazzi Apple said the author: Yangfan article source: This site original hits: 218 Update time: 2010-9-29 9:10:08 This website article declined to reprint, otherwise the legal consequence ego! IPhone4 is hoarding Apple "won't say Anything" every buy a profit hundred parallel importers price thousand Yuan reselling reporter paparazzi Apple said Apple "arrogant", this time hurt the interests of Chinese consumers. Because of improper sales strategy, Apple left a huge space for "ox". Licensed listing, consumers can not buy the licensed, only to throw a high price to buy by the iPhone4.　　And those who were sold to the two or three-line city of IPhone4, the highest price has been more than 1000 yuan. The secret of parallel importers hoarding the licensed price thousand Yuan Mu profiteering only heard of the Zhongguancun store stores parallel mobile phone, never want to now hoard can make money.　　Some analysts said that the main reason to leave profit space for reselling iPhone4, or Apple's sales strategy.　　At present, iPhone4 sales channels are mainly three kinds: one is directly in the Apple in Beijing, Shanghai, four flagship stores to buy bare metal, there are two are in the Unicom or the store to buy the agreement machine. For now, many mobile users who don't want to change their numbers will choose to go to Apple's flagship store to buy i-phone4 bare metal.　　The problem is here, Apple in China only Beijing, Shanghai's four flagship stores have bare metal sales, and supply tight. As a result, the parallel importers have come up with the employment of cattle queuing to buy iPhone4 tricks, each mobile phone parallel chamber of Commerce to pay 100 yuan to the ox, and the cattle only need to get the phone, and then go to the end of the queue.　　At the front of the line, Apple's staff had forgotten that he had bought iPhone4. It is understood that in the entire licensed i-phone4 reselling process, directly to the line of cattle each mobile phone can profit 100 yuan, the average day can earn 400 yuan to 600 yuan.　　While the parallel importers have been profiteering, in Taobao at a one-time price of 1000 yuan, 4999 Yuan of licensed to sell nearly 6000 yuan. On the other hand, iPhone4, a pure water cargo from Hong Kong, has fallen to 4700 yuan today.　　With no warranty and invoices, more consumers are still willing to buy the mainstream in the hands of the parallel importers. The scene ox snapped up iPhone4 "turn over" sell iPhone4 sales how hot? As of yesterday incomplete statistics, 4 days domestic iPhone4 orders have reached 300,000 units, Apple two flagship stores in Beijing IPhone4 has sold out.　　Consumers can not buy products even began to favor the old 3GS, but as of yesterday 3GS also a sale and empty. In fact, on the first day of iPhone4 on sale, there are cattle queuing to buy all night, when most of the cattle are in order to earn 100 yuan per unit of money, and later some clever ox found himself to buy the machineAfter, directly to the back of the team sales on the line, each unit can earn at least 200 yuan. Yesterday, in the Xidan big Yue City's Apple flagship store, an ox to the reporter to sell: "You want to iPhone4?" Just lined up, have not been demolished, invoices have. "The reporter sees, some did not buy the iPhone4 consumer to move the heart, after was bidding 200 yuan to buy the licensed." "This man is also black!" "The reporter in the Apple flagship store met two was asked by the ox," fruit powder, "he bought the IPhone4, just in the evening rose hundreds of yuan, can not bargain.　　"Dialogue • Yellow cattle" into the two or three-line city "Ox: Xiao Zhang Occupation: Logistics Transporter Age: 24-year-old queue location: Three Li Tun Reporter: How do you think to come in line to buy iPhone4?　　Ox Zhang: In fact, my main business is to do logistics in Zhongguancun, but a few days ago a shop to find me, asked me if I would like to go to his line to buy a mobile phone, a 100 yuan to me, I do a day of logistics is 100 yuan, line up to sleep, I would like to　　Reporter: Zhongguancun store how to know to hoard the licensed iPhone4?　　Ox Zhang: I am in Zhongguancun all day, to them too understand, these people are very fine, they know now iPhone4 the world are out of stock, Beijing and only two stores have bare metal sell, there will certainly be many consumers do not want to queue, and mobile phone sold can not buy a mobile phone.　　Reporter: Go to the parallel business to buy the licensed IPhone4 consumer many? Ox Zhang: In the Beijing area is not too much, because many of the cattle have been with the parallel importers broke, their direct sales at the scene, than the parallel imports of cheap, up to 200 yuan increase.　　Parallel to the hands of most of the mobile phones are sold to no bare metal i-phone4 to sell the two or three-line city, or directly on the internet to sell, is generally a fare increase of 500 to 1000 yuan, even if so, or a day to sell several units.　　Journalist: How much money have you made through iPhone4 these days? Ox Zhang: I have a total of 20 units, the front has 6 sold to the parallel importers, the back 14 units are sold directly to consumers, a total of 3400 yuan.　　But I am also very tired, every day standing here, the night is still here to sleep, these days the weather is too cold, I do not intend to do.　　Reporter: Have you ever been found by Apple?　　Ox Zhang: No, they don't attend to us at all, they say one can only buy two units, but it's no use. Dialogue Apple "Apple has always said nothing" against the cattle scalping IPhone4, the reporter interviewed Apple yesterday. The company said it was not aware of it and said: "Apple has always said nothing."　　"Reporter: Parallel importers hired yellow cattle hoarding licensed iPhone4, and ordinary consumers can not buy, but also to buy a high price to the parallel market, this situation you know?"　　Apple: We don't know that at the moment.　　Reporter: This situation has infringed the interests of consumers, Apple has a solution to the problem? Apple: weStill need to understand the situation.　　Reporter: Now only apple flagship store sales bare metal, why not more open some sales point?　　Apple: Our PR department is separate from the store, and the situation is not clear at the moment.　　Reporter: There are cattle repeatedly queuing to buy iPhone4, this phenomenon is actually able to control.　　Apple: We do buy two units per person.　　Reporter: In fact, the ox gets the handset, then goes to line up, your staff also does not care.　　Apple: So what's the best way to do that?　　Reporter: Since we know that the supply is insufficient, at least should be required to produce documents to buy, so that the ox can not repeat the line.　　Apple: You said the situation, we will go to communicate, if there is news, I will tell you.　　Reporter notes Apple in China "always have no attitude" from the day the iphone was born, Apple has become the most Chinese media-dealing companies, but also face the media the most "cold", the most unlikely to "position" of the company.　　In the face of some not-fatal consumer disputes or product problems, Apple has always been "we to understand", "has always been no statement" and other rhetoric to reply, but more than 90% are not below.　　Even if jobs had a signal problem in the face of a media attack on IPhone4, Apple was using this "tough" attitude to muddle through. 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