If you wanted an iPhone 5 and realized you wouldn't be able to be one of the first in line to get your hands on the device, what would you do? Would you purchase it on eBay for $3,000 if you had that much cash to throw away? It would seem someone has just done that, they went ahead and spent $3,000 on an iPhone 5 on eBay that only cost around $1,000 to $1,500 unlocked.
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Apple began the pre-order for its latest iPhone 5 early on Friday, Sept. 14, morning and the initial inventory was sold out within just one hour. Now an analyst suggests that iPhone sales can climb to as high as 27 million in the September quarter.
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