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Scalpers greet iPad mini launch in Beijing

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2012)

In the past when new Apple products have been released in mainland China, near-riots have taken place at Apple Stores when crowds of legitimate customers and groups of scalpers have descended upon the stores to grab the limited stock of new product. Apple instituted a system called iReserve to ...

TechCrunch looks at Apple's fight against the grey market in China

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 9th, 2012)

M.I.C. Gadget has an interesting post on Apple's efforts to reduce the influx of iPhones into the grey market with its new Shenzhen store. For years, Apple has been battling scalpers who either illegally import iPhones or buy them in bulk from Apple retail stores and resell them at a profit in ...

Apple to would-be iPad scalpers: don't queue up outside

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 15th, 2012)

To avoid the near riot that rocked the iPhone 4S launch in China, Apple is telling Hong Kong iPad scalpers that lines are not allowed, says a report from The Next Web. Apple's note confirms that it won't be selling the iPad on a first-come, first-served basis in Hong Kong this Friday. Instead, ...

Apple Hong Kong combats scalpers with iPhone lottery

by Chris Rawson (Jan 30th, 2012)

Scalping of iPhones is a huge problem in both mainland China and Hong Kong. Scalpers, who will buy the iPhones at stores and then resell them at inflated prices, have exploited both the online and brick-and-mortar availability of the iPhone 4 and 4S and prevented non-scalping customers from having ...

Chinese scalpers use app for bulk iPhone purchases

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Need to anonymously purchase and scramble a bunch of iPhones as quickly as possible after they go on sale in China? There's an app for that, but it's not what you think. MicGadget has a quick walkthrough of a Windows app in Chinese that iPhone scalpers in that country apparently use to purchase ...