College student Amanda Foote has become tradition techie at all costs of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new product from Apple in a lucrative foreign job. After nearly 41 hours of waiting in line for two IPAD release of Apple's flagship store in New York, sold his number one for $ 900.
Sat Foote throughout a rainy day, there was a stranger to help himself to a box of donuts he ate and slept with a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes in the time since it went online at 5 pm on Wednesdays and when was that at 9:00 am Friday. She plans to buy tickets for a concert of Lady Gaga with the money he got for his troubles.
The buyer, Sayed Hazem application developer, says he is thinking of leaving for a business trip at night and wants a IPAD 2 (which starts at $ 499) with him.
He is not alone in paying the cache to be among the first to buy apple products. About 30 people back, 20 years old, Mario Longo had been waiting in line since 5 am Friday for a friend who offered to pay $ 100. Craigslist is full of deals ranging from $ 100 to $ 999 to be online for a fee or sale of land.
In June, before launching the iPhone 4 spots in the queue to buy the new phone is reported on your behalf up to $ 1,200.
But the emerging market standing line has not reduced the enthusiasm of the people online that really wants to buy the device. Foote behind, standing in the second and third points were Brian Ceballos and Jose Cruz. High school students, both 17, had been in line since 6:00 pm on Wednesday. (Do not tell their teachers.)
"We like competition, the atmosphere, meet people," says Cruz.
Further down the line of bright yellow ponchos, Rafael Fischmann and Breno Masi had been waiting since 3:00 am They flew to New York from Brazil especially to buy iPads, like Francisco Degode of Belgium, who beat line for a few minutes.
The IPAD officially goes on sale in Apple stores, Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart at 5:00 pm on Friday. Here is a report from the store. For those who are not so enthusiastic about the experience authentic online, online orders are live now.
