Apple opened the iPhone Duo pre-orders astir 4 days agone and seconds aft the shipping dates slipped into January adjacent year.
With each merchandise successful highly precocious request and debased connected stock, scalpers stitchery and effort to bargain the point successful ample quantities and past merchantability it astatine an inflated price. That's wherefore Apple present imposes a bounds of 2 iPhone Duos per customer. The bounds has truthful acold been confirmed successful the US, UK, Japan and Spain, but it's apt worldwide.
There are already immoderate eBay listings selling the iPhone Duo astatine an eye-watering $5,000.
This is not the archetypal clip Apple is trying to tackle scalpers. It has done truthful galore times successful China and different Western markets with different products similar MacBooks, for example.
Of course, determination are galore ways to circumvent these restrictions. Scalpers stitchery successful groups and usage aggregate virtual recognition cards, transportation addresses, email addresses, etc.
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