You probably already know that in Hong Kong the forefathers employed hundreds of people to buy iPhone terminals that were then sold at a serious markup in stores around Apple Stores or in China. Apple had a real problem there, people were complaining that they couldn't buy the company's products because of the discounts, so the management came up with an idea that seems to have solved the problem, at least for now. In Hong Kong you can buy one iPhone 5 only if you participate in a lottery organized by Apple, the luckiest being chosen and called to the company's store to pick up their product.
At Apple's retail store, the iPhone 5 can be ordered online and a lottery process determines who is eligible for pickup at the store the next day0 Based on our conversations, you might have a better shot at winning [an actual] lottery than getting the iPhone 5 the next day.
People who go to the company's store in the hope that they can buy a device get absolutely nothing, those who sign up for the lottery have a high chance of buying one, and the elderly are left without the possibility to buy the entire stock of a store every day. Of course, the elderly still manage to purchase iPhone 5 terminals, but not as many as in the past, and ordinary people have the chance to receive one at the price sold by Apple. This lottery could also be implemented in China, because there is a similar problem that has not yet been resolved.
