Hong Kong iPhone 6 sold out in eight minutes, scalpers charged over 10,000 yuan

At 8 o'clock this morning, many "Apple fans" were eager to pre-order the iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 plus released by the Hong Kong official website. Although the login was very smooth at the beginning, most people encountered the problem of SMS confirmation. This is the same policy adopted by Apple's Hong Kong official website to eliminate scalpers as last year. Despite this, the iPhone 6 was reportedly sold out within 8 minutes.

Although the Hong Kong official website also opened pre-orders last week, it was delivered by express delivery and took 2-3 weeks to ship, which could not meet the needs of those who wanted to try it out first. The pre-order form at 8 am this morning means that you can pick up the phone in person at the Apple store on September 19th. Each person is limited to two units. It can be said to be the best choice to get the iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 plus first. At the same time, Hong Kong is the closest region to mainland China and the sales start earlier, so it attracted a large number of Apple fans.

I also logged into the reservation interface of the Hong Kong official website at 8 am this morning to participate in the reservation, but I needed to use a Hong Kong mobile phone to send the specified code and fill in the feedback reservation code to take effect. Even roaming mobile phone numbers are mostly ineffective. In other words, the threshold for local reservations in Hong Kong has been raised. It is hard to say whether it can hit scalpers. After all, it was played in this way last year. Experienced scalpers should have been prepared. What is different from last year is that this year, the lottery method is not used, but you can make a reservation directly with your mobile phone number. However, many Apple fans reported that the SMS delay was serious, resulting in the stock being out of stock when they entered the returned reservation code. It can be seen that the influx of a large number of Apple fans still caused network congestion.

Some netizens said that they received a successful reservation email at 8:03, but it was already out of stock at 8:08. It can be seen that the iPhone 6/iPhone 6 plus were sold out within 8 minutes, which shows how popular it is.

Although there are still a few days before the mass shipment on September 19, many parallel import dealers have already received the goods. It is understood that even the most entry-level iPhone 6 has been priced at around 10,000 yuan, which is astonishing.

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