iPhone Buyer: Beware of Craigslist
In a bit of news that can only be described as "shocking" (and by that we mean completely unsurprising), private sellers around the country are advertising Apple's iPhone for sale on classifieds websites like Craigslist.
The phones, which are almost certainly exist only in the sellers' respective imaginations, are being offered for anywhere from $695 to well over $1000, and some of them claim to be able to deliver well in advance of the phone's June 29th release date.
Of course, gamers are used to these sorts of pre-launch shenanigans; every time a new game console is launched, the first round of hardware routinely goes for at least twice the manufacturer's suggested retail price, and sometimes even thousands of dollars.
Unlike the anonymous nature of buying a gaming console, though, cell phone purchases require providing ID, a credit checks, and home addresses, so it's unlikely any of these sellers can pull deliver on their promises (unless, of course, Apple and AT&T offer up no-contract, prepaid versions of the iPhone.) eBay has gone so far as to pull all the iPhone pre-launch auctions from its site.
From USA Today
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