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Woman Sells First Spot in iPad 2 Line For $900
When demand is greater than supply, and you have some of the supply, you can always make money. Mashable has a story about one woman who sold her spot in line for the Apple iPad 2:
College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new Apple product into a lucrative odd job. After nearly 41 hours of waiting in line for the iPad 2 release at Apple’s flagship store in New York, she sold her number one spot for $900.
Foote sat through an entire day of rain, had a stranger help himself to a box of doughnuts she was eating, and slept a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes in the time between when she got in line at 5 p.m. Wednesday and when she left it at 9:00 a.m. Friday. She plans to buy tickets to a Lady Gaga concert with the cash that she earned for her trouble.
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Angela Shupe on March 14th, 2011 5:45 pm
I can’t believe she gave the spot up, even for $900. That was a long time to wait with no sleep. I have always wondered what people waiting in line do when they need to use the bathroom. Do they have a spot saving buddy to help them out?
Jim Campbell on March 20th, 2011 6:44 am
Love em or hate em, you have to admire Apple. I just love my mac computers, and my wife loves her iPhone. My kids are addicted to their iPods (as am I).
I liked the comments that Steve Jobs made some years ago, about technology companies not simply being able to ask the customer what they want then going and producing it. The point of his comments was that you actually have to try to see ahead and innovate yourself, because if you produce what people want today, they probably won’t want it any more by the time you go through all the steps to get it on the shelf. As I see it, Apple today do what Sony was doing in the 1980s, inventing great things that created their own demand. Should apple have invented the iPod, or should it have been Sony/Panasonic/Etc.? Whatever you think, I sure wish I’d invented it. Look at Apple these days, huge, successful, and relatively expensive. They make mistakes of course, and sometimes technology itself lets them down. But their products are extremely well designed, and their macintosh computers, in my humble opinion, put the rest of the market to shame. For me, I’m not interested in having to learn about such things, I just want it all to work out of the box, which is where Apple Macs usually win. Now, before I get hit with all the “my linux setup can do all that at a third of the price” replies, I know. But it doesn’t do it straight from the box, and most of the time the grey box housing all the bits looks like a Volkswagen Beetle compared to a Jaguar E-type. I suppose, to sum it up, I drive a Chrysler Grand Voyager because it’s better built and works better than a Kia Carnival, and I used to drive a BMW before the kids came because it was better than my previous Ford. You pays your money and you takes your choice, and for an increasing number of people, that choice is an Apple product. I hope Forrest Gump held on to those Apple shares!
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