AT&T Halts iPhone 4 Orders as eBay Prices Hit $5K

[COLGeek]

There are way too many people in the world with either too much money, too little sense, or a combination of the two. No cell phone, as in NONE, is worth $5000....period. Especially when dropped in water, traffic, or any of the other places that tend to kill cell phones.

 

[nforce4max]

Typical, its shiny and lube isn't included. Apple + AT&T = All shaft and no lube.

 

[milktea]

I don't see anything wrong with that as long as people don't give up food or shelter for these ithingy.

 

[wongster]

foxconn employees need to realize theres more to life than just money

 

[bv90andy]

Stupid is not who asks, it's who gives.

 

[warezme]

stupid is as stupid does

 

[theuerkorn]

Just to show you it's popular. But it's the same story across the industry. Every new hyped smartphone seems to sell out the first week or two. A few weeks later, the drool factor wore off and another one is being hyped. Regardless, I will get my iPhone 4, but can easily wait a month or two.

 

[Pyroflea]

That's not a lot of traffic for them to being have such failures.

Their servers are probably running OS X

 

[thesupermedium]

Wtf? I just pre-ordered mine on the Apple website one morning, nothing urgent. People are ridiculous... What's wrong with waiting a month?

 

[V8VENOM]

eBay is a scam, especially with PayPal (check out the class-action lawsuits). I'll never do anyting on eBay or PayPal again. I got burned pretty good as a seller. Sold my Pioneer Nav/DVD/iPod rear view camera (for about 1/3 of retail cost) that was fully functional, not a single issue with it and even provide video of it working.

Once the buyer received it, the buyer opened an eBay case claiming that it didn't work (would not provide any details) and wants his money back. Next thing I know, my PayPal account is charged full "refund" money to the buyer (even though I specified No Returns Allowed). Buyer is under no obligation (eBay just asks) to return my item and the buyer basically got it for free while I'm stuck trying to dispute the PayPal charge. I've contacted Freed & Weiss LLC to added my name to the class action lawsuit against PayPal/eBay.

Anyway, I'm going to get an iPhone 4, but I'll wait until the hype and lines have died down, don't need to be the first to have one. I'll pick one up at an Apple store. Will never do eBay or PayBal (now the same company) ever again.

 

[ipp]

You know, some people are mega rich and simply do not care about 5k.

Yes, really.

 

[whitecrowro]

The world has 6,827,700,000 inhabitants, and only 600,000 rushed to pre-order. That's only 0,009%. Please consider that ppl with IQ bellow 70 are 2.2%! So we're safe.

 

[gregor]

[citation][nom]chomlee[/nom]Buy it now price means nothing. I could put a turd on ebay and put buy it now for 1,000,000. It doesn't mean people will pay that much.[/citation]
Ahh but put an apple logo on it and call it an iTurd and watch the bids fly

 

[sliem]

People (eh, rich one) who spends 5k on a friggin' piece of phone a few days early = stupid who knows nothing about taking care of money.

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]chomlee[/nom]Buy it now price means nothing. I could put a turd on ebay and put buy it now for 1,000,000. It doesn't mean people will pay that much.[/citation]
I believe you missed the point. The 'bids' reached 5k, which means someone put in their bid for that amount, not that 'buy it now' price was that high.

 

[kdw75]

I am a little surprised. I am an iPhone fan. I had the original iPhone and then upgraded to the 3GS. Honestly though this newest one while nice didn't have any new feature I really ached for. I don't understand why people would want it so bad.

 

[omenowl]

I ordered about half an hour before work tuesday (0530 cst). I had more issues in trying to update my shipping address more than actually ordering the phone. The apple store was down so I just went directly to the ATT store.

Overall I think it is a well designed smart phone and the iphone if nothing else made every other smart phone better. Features are nice, but usability is a must.

 

[miloo]

5Gs ~ LOL
Dang, i will Ebay my Iphone 3G ~ 5Gs ~ LOL

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]kdw75[/nom]I am a little surprised. I am an iPhone fan. I had the original iPhone and then upgraded to the 3GS. Honestly though this newest one while nice didn't have any new feature I really ached for. I don't understand why people would want it so bad.[/citation]

Perhaps their lives are that disappointing and/or miserable that they have to look forward for a cell phone to come out to make them feel a hint of happiness...I dunno, I like my flip "dumb" phone, does the job for half the price. 99.98% of apps are useless.

 

[TheKurrgan]

Patience is a virtue.. I have no problem waiting until Christmas for the damned thing if required.. its just a phone. All the same people rushing out and buying these things on ebay, waiting for days in line, should head on over to the new brain line and secure a new one.