I’m not quite sure what disgusts me more than the idiots bidding over $10,000 on eBay for an iPhone or the fact that people are this hyped over a phone that will fail and fall short on everything it promises to deliver. Are people so inept and uneducated that they’re willing to pay someone on the interwebs x amount of dollars for a pre-sale that is technically illegal? Pull your heads out of your asses and wipe the crap from your eyes. You’re being sold vaporware and there’s nothing you can do about it once you bid.
“But he has a 99% positive rating,” so that must mean they’re reliable enough to buy an iPhone from! The supposed street date for the iPhone is June 15 and these auctions promise to ship by June 14 or earlier. Does anyone else notice anything wrong with that? Not to mention the simple and glaring fact that the iPhone hasn’t even been approved by the FCC.
You said “there’s nothing you can do about it once you bid.” Well, first you can choose not to pay. How many of these are fake bids anyway?
Second if you pay with a credit card and don’t get the phone you can have the charges reversed. PayPal will refund your money for an item that wasn’t shipped. So bid away… but $10,000 for a crappy phone? I think not.
I agree 100% on everything. Except that these aren’t real 99% feedback accounts. Well they are, but they don’t belong to the original owner of the account. If you look at items sold you will often find that they have little to nothing to do with phones or technology and are most of the time knickknacks and things of the like. A dead giveaway that the person who the account belongs to probably will have an easy password. The auction might be in different categories too. Ones that don’t correspond to phones. I doubt the bidders are real either, but theres no link to the actual auction.
Update: The item has been removed by eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/yt6b3a