It looks like Apple's iPhone 4S launch in Beijing, China has run into some trouble. We had reported earlier that iPhone 4S launch in China was greeted with long lines.
M.I.C Gadget now reports that Apple has cancelled the launch at Apple's Sanlitun retail store in Beijing due to voilence breaking out between a gang of scalpers ahead of the opening.
M.I.C Gadget reports:
Lines outside the Apple store in Beijing’s Sanlitun district show no signs of shortening, causing frustration for the thousands of fans and scalpers desperate to get their hands on the iPhone 4S. Now some of that disappointment is turning to anger, with reports of fights breaking out between gangs of scalpers, and guess what, Beijing SWAT teams arrived. So, the Apple store employees later announced that the launch of iPhone 4S is cancelled at the Apple’s flagship store in Beijing, and all scalpers are pissed.
M.I.C Gadget reports that when the Apple Store announced its decision to cancel the launch, some scalpers started throwing eggs on the Apple Store glass windows.
This is not the first time Apple has had trouble from scalpers, who buy iPhones in bulk to sell them in the grey market at higher prices.
M.I.C Gadget has posted the following photos and video of the incident:
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It's a pity as a lot of genuine customers were waiting for long time in very cold conditions to be the first to get their hands on a shiny new iPhone 4S.
[via M.I.C Gadget]
chinese…
Made in China
Good for the scumbag scalpers.
Really.
Classy
good for them… they screwed themselves over.
holy…
God made heaven and earth… the rest was made in China! lol!
US is almost swallowed by China.
hey what is that phone?…. “it’s the samsung galaxy s2″ ……… round house kick! this is china we don’t want your piece of sh*t android!
Ha! What a joke!
Apple should do away with the lines and go online only for a couple weeks to avoid this Black Friday style of violence. And people wouldn’t have to camp or stand in the cold. Yes the website would probably go crazy but that’s still better than fights breaking out.
What’s the gray market is it like the moreligit black market lol ;p
It’s like buying on eBay from overseas, for example buying a dslr camera from hongkong
Can anticipate another Samsung advertisement mocking the insanity of Apple fanboys! Looking forward to it as they do make me laugh!
People are crazy all over the world, it’s only a fu*king phone, nothing more !
Tofu brain. You on welfare or what?$$$$$$$$
Doesn’t surprise me. I always thought about things like this happening there since they are not polite at all.
“they”? Racist? What do you mean they are not polite at all? This happens everywhere not just china you racist douchebag
If bought one turn around make 100$ easy , work all day only 3$ , will u get on line to buy one. Think
It’s not for a phone, it’s for the money
Exactly !!!
What you mean for the money :S ?