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White iPhone 4?

  • 18-11-2010 10:31am
    #1
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭


    For a measily $279 you can have one... well a conversion kit. This kid has apparently sold $130,000 worth of kits! And they look amazing!
    The New York Observer reports on Fei Lam, a 17-year-old student from Queens, New York, who has turned a connection to parts producers for the white iPhone 4 into a six-figure business in just a few months.
    According to Lam, who speaks fluent Chinese, about six months ago he was able to make a connection with Apple's infamous overseas supplier. "I knew a guy from a few years back that had somewhat of a relationship with folks in Foxconn," Lam told The Observer by email.

    Lam created a site, whiteiphonefournow.com, to sell conversion kits that turn regular iPhone 4's into their elusive white version.

    Riding on the publicity generated by tech blogs and mainstream news sites alike, Lam has reportedly managed to sell over $130,000 worth of the conversion kits since August, currently pricing the full kits at $279 for a front and back panel, as well as a white home button.

    Lam's success has not gone unnoticed, however, as he has now received a letter from a purported private investigator claiming that Lam is trafficking in stolen goods. Lam intends to secure the services of a lawyer to defend himself against any possible action.

    Source.

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



Comments

  • #2
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    These are probably the white parts Apple shelved with concerns over "yellowing". Someone obviously yoinked a few boxes of them from the factory!

    $279? There's one born every minute. :pac:


  • #3
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    Must be! Guess everyone will find out shortly if they go yellow ;)

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



  • #4
    Bane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Bane


    Maybe their correct address should be whiteiphoneFORnow.com :p


  • #5
    dlm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭dlm


    Aside from the unfathomable price of the kit, what stuns me is the back panel alone can be bought for $135... seriously. The front panel has a digitiser (and the lcd panel?) so it costs something to manufacture but the back is just a piece of painted glass!


  • #6
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    Bane wrote: »
    Maybe their correct address should be whiteiphoneFORnow.com :p

    Excellent!! :D

    Yeah it is madness. Who'd be silly enough to pay it? Obviously $130,000 worth of ppl!

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



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