The New York Post wrote an extremely interesting article last night detailing the reasons why people fail to purchase iPad 2 tablets from Apple stores. The picture above was taken yesterday in front of the Apple store in Fifth Avenue, New York, where a group of Chinese people had 3 raffia nets full of iPad 2 tablets. Around 200 Asians were waiting in line who received money from one of the "organizers of the shopping session" and as soon as they entered the store they bought as many tablets as they could. All the tablets you see there plus many others will be taken to China and sold at prices almost 3 times higher than those in Apple stores.
The scammers in line then went inside and bought iPad 2's — wiping out the store within minutes.
"We buy from here, then sell," one of the organizers gloated outside the store, standing near one of several bulging, oversized shopping bags filled with the hot devices.
"The ones we bought today are already on their way to China," where they haven't gone on sale yet, said the boss. "It's been pretty crazy."
The biggest problem? Apple knows about these practices, customers know about these practices, but the company refuses to stop them. The employees of the Apple stores say that they do not have the power to stop what these people are doing, the bosses don't let them do anything and hundreds of people sit and watch as the Asians collect tens/hundreds of tablets in bags in front of the Apple stores. For Apple, it doesn't matter where the tablets go as long as they are purchased by someone, but considering that this practice is carried out in public, in full view, I think it should be stopped. If you couldn't purchase an iPad 2 tablet, at least now you know the reasons.
