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Old 02-18-2008, 01:21 AM
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Ebay prices, wtf?

Maybe i'm just giving people too much credit or maybe i don't understand something vital about the iphone unlocking scene, but why are people paying $100> retail for an unlocked iphone when there are so many easy ways to do it for free? Why not just buy one from apple.com or the apple store. I ask this primarily because I'm considering getting one for t-mobile and as far as i can tell it's as easy as buying an iphone and using the Ziphone (spelling?) program that was released a few days ago, am I wrong about this?
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heh a 100us well its bad they have to charge that, in Denmark however they go for 800-1000US

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Old 02-18-2008, 08:31 AM
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1 Euro = 1.46600 U.S. dollars

http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:35 AM
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EURO?
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:52 AM
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People paying that kind of money for the Iphone are in other countries were the phone is not available......thus money talks.
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:58 AM
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EURO?
Exactly what is wrong with this country.
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Old 02-18-2008, 09:04 AM
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People paying that kind of money for the Iphone are in other countries were the phone is not available......thus money talks.
Not entirely true. The iPhone is available in France and Germany at 399 EURO ($584.93).

UK available at 269 GBP ($528.69)

So, smart shoppers in these countries will jump on ebay.COM and not ebay.co.uk or ebay.fr or ebay.de and purchase in the currently weak DOLLAR.
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:54 AM
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Exactly what is wrong with this country.
nobody is talking about the currency EURO, and for the record euro is not a country
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it's because the average ebayer isn't knowledgeable on the unlocks that are available. they just want an unlocked iphone at a low cost price. they go on ebay and say, "oh this iphone is $100 over retail and it's unlocked! i must buy this now"
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Old 02-18-2008, 02:38 PM
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Awesome, so it is as simple as i think. So are lots of people, on this board especially, buying iphones/unlocking them for free/and making some profit? Too much work? Ha, idk this all just seems to easy.
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Old 02-18-2008, 06:38 PM
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People don't know there are places like here. So they pay premium.
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Old 02-19-2008, 06:11 PM
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People don't know there are places like here. So they pay premium.
He hit the nail on the head.
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Old 02-20-2008, 02:18 AM
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Just ordered 3 refurbished iPhones to unlock and resell
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