This article is the reason WHY iPhone 3G is priced so expensively in KL, the case in KL should be identical to the Phillippines, until them Pinoys have their own official launch.



http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/ipho...d-at-greenhills

Translate that PhP61,500 into RM and you get RM4575 for 8GB alone. So, whichever idiot that buys them from the current cutthroats in LowYat Plaza, or in this forum itself, are paying for the seller's call plans. Even if it cheaper than that, you are also partially paying for the seller's plan, and he stands to gain more than you do. Do no fall into this trap!

Spread the word, especially to our fellow members in here, to stop them from being victims of greed from sellers here selling at these pricetags. They are selling them to cover THEIR OWN call plans!

That is until the unlock arrives for the 3G. Until then, there have been hardware unlocks like sim cloning and cuting your sim card to fit into duped Sim slots. Solutions like these ran a good posibility of your carrier finding out what you are doing and they have all the right to blacklist you from service.

While the stupidest pay the price? I usually say people deserve what's coming to them if they dont bother to find out, but I'd be more pissed at the gloating seller for the crapload of money he's making preying on gullible victims.

It's NZD 979, but why open auction? Why not set a figure and be done with? You'll be disappointing a lot of people with this. If it is eBay then, by all means go ahead. If it is our own forum, show a little love for our forum folks and give them a price you and them can win-win with.

Your call, man. It is definitely easy to set it as auction and watch the price go sky high as people bid on it, but IMO it takes a bigger person to let it go at a price you both can agree with. I've done auction sales before, and the sad faces I get , are not worth the money I make.

I mean, I can be money-minded, get oodles of NZ iPhone 3Gs with me, and sell them auction style as well, but that's business, and to me, a business is like trading, and you are required to provide some form of after-sale support if anything goes wrong. I dont want that responsiblity, plus it feels good helping people.

Dont get me wrong, it's your call if you want to make some money out of this. But if it were up to me, I'd rather settle for a thin margin but with good rapport and contacts all round, than a huge margin, but with people cursing my health(may be an exaggeration, but you get what I mean. )

And oh, please provide detailed info on which region you get that iPhone 3G from. US iPhone 3Gs are unlocked ONLY via hardware unlocks now, and you NEED to tell that to your potential customers. They NEED to be informed of the risks and complications of dealing with such unlocking methods. That way, you are partially absolved when things go wrong. Partially, not wholly.

Those are what AT&T call "no-commitment" iPhones, but they are still locked to AT&T. I dont have to tell how much trouble those who are using Turbo-Sim and its other cousins, are in right now.

Sooner or later, they will run out of people to subscribe onto, so they will be selling them outright, I think. That would most probably happen after Starhub and M1 got their launches. Starhub and M1 may themselves offer prepaid/no-contract versions of iPhones.

The situation in AUS is not the same as NZ, in fact the AUD market are clever to have stemmed the outflow of their iPhone 3G stock out from the country by enforcing the plan adoption first, non-plan later. It is not the same as NZ, NZ's only carrier Vodafone is required by law to sell them outright. Is is through this opportunity that a lot have taken advantage of to get their iPhone 3G here. A little bit of legwork, and it is not unlikely to get more than "just one iPhone" in NZ.

Along with the help of two very helpful LYN members there, it makes getting them pretty much easier than "walking 10 minuted to an Optus store and hope they allow a purchase for you".