В Китае происходит ужасное! Китайцы, столкнувшись с дефицитом iPhone, пустились во все тяжкие, а точнее — в спекуляцию устройством. Но, судя по репортажам с мест, им очень далеко до размаха любителей “пофарцевать” модным гаджетом. Вот что пишут журналисты из Wall Street Journal “на местах”:

But as of Thursday morning, Apple’s flagship store in Beijing’s Sanlitun Village mall was sold out of the new smartphone. As a result, scalpers, who bought up iPhone 4s earlier in the week, are now lurking outside the store ready to pounce on anyone who walks out without merchandise.
“Want to buy an iPhone 4?” they say. “Come with us.”
Working in groups, the scalpers lead willing customers to an empty stairway in the same mall, where their cohorts keep stacks of iPhone 4s in the original packaging. One scalper was offering the 16-gigabyte version of the device for 5,400 yuan, or about 795 dollars, a 10-percent mark-up over the sticker price.

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