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iPhone eBay Auction Topping $1,500

Posted June 6, 2007 4:00 PM by Aaron Wright
Categories: eBay Auctions News 

Earlier today I posted a short story on how eBay is selling iPhone’s like hot-cakes at the minute, with one bid exceeding $1,500 - talk about enthusiastic.

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The 8GB iPhone, which promises to be delivered within 30 days of the auction ending, has just been placed up and sold on the auction site for $1,525, almost three times the amount of the recommended retail price of $599. Whilst this could well be a hoax, eBay has yet to remove the item as the seller is putting up an honest front - he won’t accept payment from the highest bidder until he has the iPhone in his hands, and only then will he accept and ship.

Do you think the iPhone is worth $1,525? Let’s be honest, not even this bidder is guaranteed to get the iPhone at launch, because who’s to say the seller will manage to get one? It’ll be interesting to see how this folds out - and if you did make the highest bid, iPhone Matters would love to hear what drove you to pay so much for a device not yet released.

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  1. I know this is probably the wrong website to write like this on, but I am really not impressed enough to rush out and buy an iPhone when it’s available. I like my Q, and I get my music wirelessly through the “M” application already, so I don’t see a huge need for an iPhone.

    Posted by Peekay on June 6, 2007 4:56 PM

  2. did anybody read the girl who won? she has 50% feed back one good sale that went through and another that she never paid. i wouldnt trust this girl further than i could throw her.

    Posted by joe on June 6, 2007 11:14 PM

  3. Dumb!! Why pay so much when you can get one so much cheaper in a couple weeks. Bunch of morons!

    Piko

    Posted by Piko on June 7, 2007 12:06 AM

  4. Patience just isn’t a common human virtue anymore.  I like the iPhone, and honestly, I would buy one.  My only suspicions are the cell plans and the corresponding costs.  Every (most) Mac enthusiast wants one of these phones, so AT&T might try to pull a fast one.  I called earlier this month to find out, and AT&T informed me that it would be the cost of any other PDA phone and plan.  Basically, not worth it.  You’d have to pay extra for text, and extra for data capabilities starting at U$39.99.  However, Apple sources informed me that this is nonsense, considering nobody, including Apple store management, knows what type of plan(s) will be out there.  I assume the only answer is the same answer I’ve been getting from everybody else.  We’ll see on June 29th.

    Posted by Boozer on June 23, 2007 3:10 PM

  5. Get real, folks (can Americans do that?).

    It is most LIKELY a hoax. If it WAS to be “won”, there would be NO transaction, just a good laugh between the “buyer” and “seller” (in cahoots, in this scenario). A laugh mostly about all the other legitimate bidders with more money than brains who “lost” to the “hight bidder” (the aforementioned “buyer"). There was no real chance of an actual winner.

    Here’s how I see that it went down: the “high bidder” (or shill) would have set an astronomical figure on his blind-bid (unseen by any other party) that would automatically trump any legitimate offer. It could be even a number as foolish as 1 million bucks - who in the hell would outbid THAT? No-one,that’s who. The REAL bids could go into the thousands, and the shill would still be the “winner”. Shill and “seller” have a good laugh, leave feedback for each other...and life goes on, with two hoaxers knowing they stirred up every gullible Gus-&-Gertie the whole freakin’ country for a few hours.

    This kind of stuff is the sort that eBay cannot control, and people should not take seriously. No fault, no foul, and no fraud - just a pointless hoax-based “bidding war” to stir up the good ol’ American appetite for edgy, high-tension, REALITY-BASED...B.S.!

    Posted by JL on August 24, 2007 11:37 PM

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    Posted by ocihftrb on January 21, 2008 4:30 AM

  7. People will pay anything for the latest and greatest. I was one.

    Posted by Fredricka Bellamy on May 22, 2008 6:32 PM

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