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09-20-2013, 01:17 AM
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#201 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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The problem is how much and when. My contacts are paying 780 USD if you send them today for their flight to China today. This is updated until 3 min ago.
You'd lose money if you send them cdn phones at today's exchange rate
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09-20-2013, 06:21 AM
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#202 | | Ready to be Man handled by RS!
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Originally Posted by death_blossom  judging from the picture, the hype for iPhones is definitely down a lot from recent years.
anyone have a clue on stock is gonna be like? I'd like to get one from the Apple store tomorrow morning, but dunno if these will sell out fast. | Or people are doing what I and almost everyone else does - go online, reserve your phone and wait for it to arrive. Plus the incentive to line up and buy to flip has gone down since there's no staggered launch to China as there was in previous years. And the fact that Apple has a reservation system for China/HK after the problems with the huge lines (and fights) that happened with the 4S.
Only people lining up are the "promoters" who want to be seen in front of a major Apple store (like New York's glass cube).
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09-20-2013, 07:05 AM
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#203 | | Resident Bullshitter
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no one in china would want north american version of the iphone 5S or 5C.
Only the ones sold in HK and China supports China Mobile's 3G/4G networks and hong kong's 4G networks
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09-20-2013, 10:04 AM
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#204 | | I want to be a person and not an icon.
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Originally Posted by Hehe The problem is how much and when. My contacts are paying 780 USD if you send them today for their flight to China today. This is updated until 3 min ago.
You'd lose money if you send them cdn phones at today's exchange rate
Posted via RS Mobile | The demand market is HUGE in Vancouver for gold.
Each store only had a few and some stores didn't even have 16gb gold.
In line today people were selling their ticket for the gold iphone for $500, I was shocked people are willing to pay $500 premium for the gold one.
I was first few in line and only ended up with 1 gold iPhone and that was the last one of today's batch.
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09-20-2013, 10:24 AM
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#205 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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anyone in HK know what kind of gongshow exists at IFC apple store? I am planning to buy the 5c in HK when i go back in 2 weeks.
Thanks.
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09-20-2013, 10:29 AM
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#206 | | Ready to be Man handled by RS!
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So a site has gone up offering a reward to the first person to crack/fool the fingerprint scanner.
I'm sure lots of people will be trying to crack it along with Activation Lock, and, of course, the jailbreakers.
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09-20-2013, 11:51 AM
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#207 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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...and so it begins... Fights break out at Apple store in Pasadena with iPhone release - latimes.com
Fights have broken out at the Pasadena Apple store leading to at least two arrests Friday morning as hundreds lined up in anticipation of the new iPhone 5S and 5C release.
Police arrested George Westbrook, 23, of Compton and Lamar Mitchell, 43, of Pasadena for fighting in line outside of the store, Pasadena Police Lt. Jason Clawson said.
The store hired two Pasadena police officers to keep control of the crowd, he said.
About 9 a.m., another scuffle was breaking out as one man left the store with multiple phones, Clawson said. People whom the man hired to stand in line for him began fighting with him because they said they weren’t being paid enough, Clawson said.
Clawson estimated at least 200 people were outside of the store Friday morning waiting for it to open.
The newest edition of Apple’s iconic phone is being released in various colors, including gold. Consumers also have the option of buying the less-expensive iPhone 5c with a plastic case. For the first time ever, the phones are being released in China on the same day they were made available everywhere else.
As in past iPhone releases, it appears some people are paying others to wait in line to buy iPhones so they can be resold later for a profit.
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09-20-2013, 12:25 PM
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#208 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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09-20-2013, 12:55 PM
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#209 | | Resident Bullshitter
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Originally Posted by jackmeister anyone in HK know what kind of gongshow exists at IFC apple store? I am planning to buy the 5c in HK when i go back in 2 weeks.
Thanks. | none, Apple in HK don't sell iphone 5s and 5c to walk in customers.
You have to reserve one online at 6am first. If you can't reserve one, then you are out of luck until the next day.
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09-20-2013, 01:49 PM
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#210 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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.... and it continues .... http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/09...re?hpt=hp_bn17
Some people waiting in line to buy the new iPhone 5S and 5C got a rude awakening Friday morning. They were robbed at gunpoint!
Police say close to 10 people were camping outside an AT&T store in Houston around 5 a.m. when two armed robbers got out of the car, walked up to two customers and demanded their wallets and phones.
According to HLN affiliate KHOU, one of the victims said the robber told him to give him everything he had.
“I emptied out my pocket, and he takes away my iPhone, my iPad -- because it was on the ground already. He’s like, ‘give me your wallet.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t have one -- come look.’”
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09-20-2013, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by RickyTan3 14 gold Iphones Ordered | i heard if u cant get rid of them, apple will charge 20% restocking fee right 
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09-20-2013, 02:39 PM
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#212 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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Walked into Metro's Apple at 130pm.
Aside from the golden iPhone, they had every model + colour of both the 5C and 5S available in stock immediately.
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09-20-2013, 02:42 PM
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09-20-2013, 03:02 PM
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#214 | | I want to be a person and not an icon.
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First impressions tho,
The phone is bloody fast and touch id works really well!
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09-20-2013, 03:05 PM
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#215 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Originally Posted by DHP 1 i heard if u cant get rid of them, apple will charge 20% restocking fee right | Oh snapz,  | |
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09-20-2013, 03:22 PM
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#216 | | I want to be a person and not an icon.
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Apple doesn't charge re-stocking fee, I asked you can return it at the store in person too.
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09-20-2013, 03:53 PM
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#217 | | reads most threads with his pants around his ankles, especially in the Forced Induction forum.
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Went to Metro this morning and saw a bunch of people lining up in front of the apple store.... then I remember they are lining for iphone 5s.
Took a pic with my note2 of the lineup and got weird stares for the apple fan boys =D
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09-20-2013, 05:06 PM
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#218 | | I want to be a person and not an icon.
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I got an unopened black 16 looking to trade for a silver 16 haha.
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09-20-2013, 05:34 PM
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#219 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Just check out Sin Tat yesterday, you might get $500hkd profit this week, next week will be $200 or none
for the gold iphone, someone is asking $10,000hkd on the first day, then it goes back to $8,000 the next day. Yesterday is only $7,000
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09-20-2013, 06:06 PM
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#220 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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People pay that much of a premium for 1 day earlier?...
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09-20-2013, 06:25 PM
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#221 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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^r u really that surprised?
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09-20-2013, 06:26 PM
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#222 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp Went to Metro this morning and saw a bunch of people lining up in front of the apple store.... then I remember they are lining for iphone 5s.
Took a pic with my note2 of the lineup and got weird stares for the apple fan boys =D | U should show them how great the android just like in those commercials. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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09-20-2013, 07:26 PM
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#223 | | How I Mod your mother
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No man. 5s with fingerprint scanner > any android that can do 5x more than an iPhone
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09-20-2013, 07:42 PM
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TouchID is such a gimmick. While a nice feature, it certainly isn't worth upgrading from an 5.
(Especially if you don't lock your phone)
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09-20-2013, 07:45 PM
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#225 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo TouchID is such a gimmick. While a nice feature, it certainly isn't worth upgrading from an 5.
(Especially if you don't lock your phone) | I don't think it's a complete gimmick. It's just the first to use what I think most manufacturers will have eventually.
It is certainly better than entering a code, and probably the reason you don't lock is because of having to enter a code (I know that's why I don't use one! If I had a fingerprint scanner I would use it).
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