Scalper Blamed for iPad 2 Buyer Violence in China

A Chinese man says violence that broke out at a Beijing Orchard apple tree Store on Saturday resulted from a scalper cutting into a personal credit line of customers waiting to buy the iPad 2.

Lines in Bejing (Credit: MyChinaViews.com)

Thirty-yr-old Wang Ming says the bloody affray at the store in Bejing's Sanlitun commercial district was betwixt a "foreign" Apple employee and a Chinese client. Wang, who aforesaid he was passing by when a bottle hit his headway, heard the queue-jumping customer was a scalper.

The New York City Daily Intelligence reports that the "foreign" employee from the Beijing store allegedly pushed several people accused of cutting in line, which sparked a melee.

Although many inside information remain vague, photos from the scene clearly show that whatever happened resulted in a shattered glass door and several customers organism bruised.

Long lines and pushy scalpers aren't anything untried for iPad 2 fans in China. Demand for the new device is extremely high.

The iPad 2 became lendable for sale in the res publica on Friday.

Massive lines appeared outside Apple stores in Peiping and Shanghai. Cardinal stash awa was out of descent within four hours of opening. CNET reports shipping estimates for the iPad 2 jumped from "unrivaled to two weeks" to "No Supply" connected Apple's Chinese Online Store on Friday.

The launch also drew dozens of scalpers who camped out with their families to hoard devices according to Taiwanese News site Xinhua. The site says scalpers offered to sell their iPad 2s to people ready and waiting in line on launch Clarence Shepard Day Jr. for 300 yuan (about $50) to a higher degree retail price.

Scalpers are likely basing their business model on the initial iPad's success in China. When information technology launched, hundreds of consumers waited eligible upwards to 60 hours to secure a tablet. That popularity translates into food market share.

Apple owns 78 percent of the tablet market in China despite having a modest reach (four retail stores) in the res publica and cathartic the first version of the iPad in China Eastern Samoa lately as Sep. For comparison, Apple has 82 pct of the tablet market in the U.S. after being released in April 2020 at hundreds of stateside Apple Stores.

The iPad 2 is soh popular in China, some stores are having trouble keeping even fake ones in neckcloth.

Paper replicas of Apple's in style pill are moving off the shelves of some Chinese stores, reported to Reuters.

The jr. generation of Chinese is purchasing paper iPads to use for gifts. According to an LA Multiplication blog, the paper fakes are being purchased for the Qingming fete, an one-year tradition where families burn paper replicas of things for their dead relatives to use in the afterlife.

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The video report is by Reuters.