June 1st, 2007
Buy It Now! — iPhone Sold on eBay for $800 (now, about that bridge …)
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
You may recall my post in late March about eBayers and iPhones … at that time I was willing to sell them a bridge, but now … since we know the iPhone is due out late this month, this isn’t so bad. But wait, the seller said, “this phone is ready to ship”. Eh?
An eBay auction for a brand spanking new Apple iPhone has just ended for $800 dollars. The phone was put on the auction block on May 27th at 11:59 AM PDT and was quickly bought at 3:20 PM for the $800 “Buy it Now” price. Source: TG Daily
We Say: Sorry, TG Daily, it appears since you posted your story the auction was pulled. First (as they noted), $800 seems low for something that would be in such high demand. AND, though TG Daily seemed to think the seller was legit because he had a positive feedback of 11, I would say … no way. I would only buy from a seller with an 11 feedback, 100% positive or no, if it was a) an inexpensive item, b) not something hot like this. 11 feedback can be easily faked. Seems like not just the buyer, but TG Daily was scammed.
Everitt Chase says:
And you reposted this why?
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:17 pm
» iPhone Release Date Confirmed as June 29 » Blog Archive Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech says:
[…] Well, once the ads show up on TV, it’s hard to take ‘em back. The first ads appeared on CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’; as of June 29th you can expect your bank account to be smaller (assuming you want an iPhone, that is). So, why bother with buying from eBay … it’s less than a month away. […]
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Michael Santo says:
Everitt, this is a completely different story than the first one about eBay.
June 9th, 2007 at 6:19 am
iPhone News says:
eBay verbietet iPhone Vorverkäufe vor dem 29. Juni…
Seit gestern wirksam, verbietet die Online-Verkaufsplattform eBay den Vorverkauf von iPhones vor dem 29 Juni 2007.
eBay musste bei vorherigen Vorverkäufen von anderen populären Elektronik Artikel beobachten, dass die viele Verkäufer…
June 9th, 2007 at 1:31 pm