Woman sells First spot in ipad 2 line...

pickarooney · 14-03-2011 04:01PM #1

http://mashable.com/2011/03/11/ipad-2-line-900/

Losing:

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.

Winning:

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.

Oh dear Lord Jesus:

She plans to buy tickets to a Lady Gaga concert with the cash that she earned for her trouble.

Compulsory euthanasia for that whole queue.

Korvanica · 14-03-2011 04:03PM

idiots...

RichieC · 14-03-2011 04:05PM

****.

PrincessLola · 14-03-2011 04:07PM

LOL at some rich person paying 900 bucks on top of what ever an ipad costs.

KeithM89_old · 14-03-2011 04:07PM

At least she can afford to buy some new glasses now...

RichieC · 14-03-2011 04:10PM

KeithM89 wrote: »

At least she can afford to buy some new glasses now...

...with even thicker black frames!

Kimono-Girl · 14-03-2011 04:14PM

KeithM89 wrote: »

At least she can afford to buy some new glasses now...

be honest keith was it you that bought her spot?

Logical Fallacy · 14-03-2011 04:14PM

Would be ****ing brilliant is both her and the person she sold the spot to were mugged. She loses the cash and they lose the iPad 2.

Come on criminal underworld, don't let me down.

pickarooney · 14-03-2011 04:14PM

PrincessLola wrote: »

LOL at some rich person paying 900 bucks on top of what ever an ipad costs.

What about the twats flying in from Brazil and Belgium? Apple must piss themselves laughing at these people.

KeithM89_old · 14-03-2011 04:15PM

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

be honest keith was it you that bought her spot?

No

Sent from my iPad 2

Victor McDade · 14-03-2011 04:15PM

Why on earth would someone pay so much just to have the first one?

Or intentionally go see lady attention-seeker?

phill106 · 14-03-2011 04:16PM

Basically she got 22 dollars an hour to stand there for 41 hrs...
Meh...

Biggins · 14-03-2011 04:17PM

phill106 wrote: »

Basically she got 22 dollars an hour to stand there for 41 hrs...
Meh...

LOL

Thats what I first thought of! :pac:

Now if she was ordinary working that in a job elsewhere, she might have at least got a night working rate too!

chillywilly · 14-03-2011 04:17PM

She plans on putting the money towards reconstructive surgery*

*quote may be untrue

Stinicker · 14-03-2011 04:19PM

The same thing with the PS3 if I remember, however I guess they were not saddos right.

All I can smell here is begrudgery against people who have the money to buy what they want and the sheer jealousy of Irish people bubbling below the surface.

pickarooney · 14-03-2011 04:20PM

Stinicker wrote: »

The same thing with the PS3 if I remember, however I guess they were not saddos right.

All I can smell here is begrudgery against people who have the money to buy what they want and the sheer jealousy of Irish people bubbling below the surface.

You guess wrong, and you may need to see an ENT specialist.

phasers · 14-03-2011 04:20PM

this is only a good deal if she considers her time to be worthless

jackiebaron · 14-03-2011 04:21PM

Queueing up to buy a friggin' ipad. Assholes.

df1985 · 14-03-2011 04:26PM

Stinicker wrote: »

The same thing with the PS3 if I remember, however I guess they were not saddos right.

All I can smell here is begrudgery against people who have the money to buy what they want and the sheer jealousy of Irish people bubbling below the surface.

rubbish, im one of those people who never leaves their iphone down, but queueing up for an ipad and paying 900 dollars to be the first is nonsense-no begrudgery about it.

Biggins · 14-03-2011 04:26PM

jackiebaron wrote: »

Queueing up to buy a friggin' ipad. Assholes.

The words your looking for is "Baaa. Baaaa..." :pac:

PrincessLola · 14-03-2011 04:29PM

Stinicker wrote: »

All I can smell here is begrudgery against people who have the money to buy what they want and the sheer jealousy of Irish people bubbling below the surface.

Damn straight! I can begrudge all I like!

Just read somewhere they cost about 500 dollars. Thats half a grand just so you can feel smug about owning the latest apple rip off.

deathrider · 14-03-2011 04:31PM

Is she gonna have to queue again for said Gaga tickets?

Tubsandtiles · 14-03-2011 04:39PM

This would make an awesome movie

not

Procasinator · 14-03-2011 04:45PM

phasers wrote: »

this is only a good deal if she considers her time to be worthless

A lot of people that are unemployed might find the opportunity cost of waiting in a queue for 41 hours quite small.

Some people sleep on the streets for free.

Captain_Generic · 14-03-2011 04:46PM

What kind of monster steals a womans doughnuts

sbsquarepants · 14-03-2011 04:46PM

Fúcking idiots the lot of them!
I mean if you want an ipad, then by all means buy it, but i just don't get this whole queing up cos you just have to have it now attitude. It's a fúcking gadget, not a kidney, get one next week when there's no que you muppet!

filmbuffboy · 14-03-2011 04:55PM

dont see what all the fuss is about re: ipad tbh. many people i know who have one lost interest after a few wks. its just a glorified itouch.

Mexihalo · 14-03-2011 04:56PM

Captain_Generic wrote: »

What kind of monster steals a womans doughnuts

a hungry 1?

fakearms123 · 14-03-2011 04:56PM

Jesus I clicked on the link before reading the full story and the first thing I thought that happened from looking at the picture of her was that someone beat the sh*te out of her and took her place in the queue for an ipad 2

:o

It was until I read a little further that I realised that her face was not assaulted during this whole story.

Sugarfree · 14-03-2011 04:58PM

Ugly Betty must be stuck for cash.

Dravokivich · 14-03-2011 04:59PM

Are her eyes really that small or just very far away?

Woman sells First spot in ipad 2 line...

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