Nice rant. Most of the people that want iPhone will do what you did ... the head-desk thing. Offering a used 8gb phone for 2.2k is utterly nonsense. He's just taking advantage of the tock shortage situation. Its wise of you to come here and survey first rather than getting knock off later. If you have the patients to wait, the phone will drop in price.

p/s - nice avatar. Is that the red car transformers (forgot the name already)