iPhone Craze: $12,500 for an iPhone? $140,000 for an iPhone domain?
June 30, 2007
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My husband asked me earlier this week…do you want my Treo? No thanks. You sure? You really need one. No, I prefer my old Nokia brick phone. I used to have a nice phone but my daughter dunked it like her graham cracker in milk and trashed it. Now I prefer junkie phones with bad batteries so that I don’t talk to long. (Last month my phone bill as $200. Yikes.) Anyhow, I realized that my husband wanted the iPhone and to let me “upgrade” would help justify the purchase. So today we trekked with the family to Salt Lake City’s Gateway Apple Store like the other cool fans in Utah to ooh and aah over them. And yes, we purchased too. We not only bought 1 but we bought 5 (we bought 3 and a friend bought 2). WHY?? Well, because they were selling so high on eBay (YES, someone paid $12,500 for an iphone WHO IS THIS PERSON? Don’t you want to know!?), we decided to give it a try ourselves and see if we couldn’t at least make enough to pay for his phone. Well, sad to say, we weren’t fast enough. By the time we purchased and put up the auctions, the prices had dropped so low that the sellers will likely lose money on their purchases once they pay their eBay fees. Too bad we didn’t get the idea to sell on eBay earlier! BTW, we’ll be trekking back to the Apple store soon to return the phones, unless any of you want one…
Also, a crazy high auction for the web domain, iphonesvcs.com sold for $140,000.
Are you going to get an iPhone? If so, why? If not, why?
I read you need to use the original purchase credit card in order to activate with ATT. eBay buyers beware.
I’m waiting for the bugs to get worked out (not many of them!)– I’ll take round 2!
Good move, Rachael!