With just 3 days left before the launch of the iPhone in the United States, people have already started camping out in line for an iPhone in New York City. For other countries, however, the release of the iPhone is a very vague date, like "sometime in 2008". Britain's Tech Digest has an excellent article on how an enterprising Brit can acquire an iPhone. Their list includes a pound by pound breakdown of the different routes one may take, including flying out to New York and camping for one. My favorite, though is to:
MAKE AN INTERNET FRIEND BUY ONE
You must know someone who lives in America. Come on, someone in your Warcraft guild must live out there? One of your blog readers? That random woman you occasionally talk to on Messenger? Pay them a 20 percent commission and try to get a couple sent over so you've got one to eBay yourself for a vast profit. And make sure they mark the package as a "gift" and say it's only worth $5, so you don't get done for import duty.
TOTAL PRICE: £300
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