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# From Apple Store to Gray Market
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2011/11/from-apple-store-to-gray-market/
- Published: 2011-11-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:12.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

[Photos from the iPhone 4S launch in Hong Kong](https://micgadget.com/17607/3000-people-line-up-for-hong-kong-iphone-4s-launch/?ref=chrisenns.com).

Professional queuers (people paid to line up and buy stuff), regular folks buying 5 iPhone 4S at a time just to turn around and sell them to the gray market as soon as they leave the store, making around $140 per iPhone 4S.

Apple tries to do what it can to stop the scalpers and resellers - but you can see how futile it is when nearly everyone is doing it.

*Via [512pixels.net](https://512pixels.net/on-hong-kong-and-the-iphone-4s/?ref=chrisenns.com).*