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In China, pre-orders for the iPhone 14 Pro were flooded, and Apple’s official website was so popular that the server went down, but it seems that resellers are surprisingly not profitable.
A lot of new iPhones in a suitcase
In China, where the iPhone 14 Pro series is particularly popular, 2,000 yuan (about 40,940 yen) is added to the price immediately after its release, and the highest 1TB version is 3,000 to 4,000 yuan (about 61,400 to about 81,880 yen). It seems that it was done.
Even in the images published on the Internet, you can see how the iPhone 14 Pro series is packed in a suitcase.
Prices start dropping quickly
However, according to the news site MyDrivers, the price began to drop immediately in the afternoon of the release date, and the price of the iPhone 14 Pro settled down to about 8,900 yuan (about 182,140 yen).
Since the list price is 7,999 yuan (approximately 163,750 yen), you can only expect a profit of 900 yuan (approximately 18,390 yen) at 8,900 yuan. In addition, it was observed that a reseller was priced at about 197,000 yen in Japanese yen before the release.
Even in Japan, the incident targeting a man who tried to buy about 100 iPhones and the measures against accepting credit cards and cash payments became a hot topic, but resellers overflowing with Apple Stores around the world are having a headache. Isn’t it?
It is true that the iPhone 14 Pro is very popular
Nonetheless, the popularity of the iPhone 14 Pro in China is tremendous, and 2 million units have been ordered in 24 hours since the reservation started, and Apple’s online store has developed into a situation where the server is temporarily down.
In addition, Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at TF Securities, who is known for his accurate predictions for Apple products, also said that the iPhone 14 Pro series is overwhelmingly popular in China, with the two top models accounting for about 85% of the entire lineup. It points out that
Source: MyDrivers
(kihachi)
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